Marie Quotes

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

Day, the champion of the people, the one who can't bear to see those around him suffer on his behalf, who would gladly give his life for those he loves.

I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.

I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father.

I'm not doing this to be a pop star. I've had plenty of money and attention. I'm doing it for credibility.

I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.

I absolutely refuse to bare midriff.

I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy

I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.

Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.

I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly.

What am I? Nothing. What would I be? Everything.

When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature.

Life, that is Paris! Paris, that is life!

I am a kite in a tornado, but I have a long string.

When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?

Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together.

The sensitive plate, the gas which is ionised, the fluorescent screen, are in reality receivers, into another kind of energy, chemical energy, ionic energy... luminous energy.

Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it's good.

Love is the best medicine, and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart.

Solitude is a place where all is quiet - except the beating of your heart.

Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.

"By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply."

As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.

Im very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.

Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship. True friendship is never serene.

It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill.

Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.

My faith is certainly not as stable or constant as I’d like it to be. I’m a highly emotional person and sometimes allow my emotions to affect how I feel about God or how I trust him.

Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him.

That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.

I have had a couple of marriages, but like every other woman I had a perfect right to them.

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves

You're only as good as your last picture.

I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.

Those who know nothing must believe everything.

When someone criticizes you, it defines who they are, not who you are.

The boy who walks in the light.

It takes courage to begin something, but it can take even more to end it.