Moriarty Quotes

This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it.

I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued.

This is how it is now. This is my life.

Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.

I wasn't that familiar with silent films. I didn't know, for example, how hugely popular silent films were in the 1920s, how people would go to the movies several times a week.

One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on.

Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive rage and immaturity.

I don't think I've ever tried on a corset, though a certain bridesmaid's dress did require a torturous bustier that will stay forever burned in my sensory memory.

They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.

Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else.

Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

The medication, the hormones and the relentless frustrations of our lives make us bitchy and you're not allowed to be bitchy in public or people won't like you.

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?

Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.

There were worse things to be than sexist. For example, you could be the sort of person who pinched your fingers together while using the words “teeny weeny.

What if I was! That’s my point. What if I was a bit overweight and not especially pretty? Why is that so terrible? So disgusting? Why is that the end of the world?

She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think were pretty much alike!

The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.

Obamas IRS is not the IRS Ive ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.

Film is something that came later into my life.

Everybody knows everybody's dying, that's why people are as good as they are.

I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am.

When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.

Ive had the most wonderful life.

I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

Interviews don't go to the core of my life.

I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.

The New World Order run by the United Nations ain't gonna happen. Because they've shown their hand, and at least some corner of Congress and the American people are awake to it: they've blown it all.

We were so happy.

The world is made of more than particles. It's made of things you can't hold in your hand, like fear, love, loss, hope, truth.

Baths, she thought, were just like her relationships, all "ooh, ah" in the beginning and then suddenly, without warning, she had to get out, out, out!

One of the multitudes of exboyfriends had been a country music fan and left Gemma with an unfortunate passion for Tammy Wynette. It was like, Cat thought, he’d given her herpes.

It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.

You okay, Mum?" said Rob."I'm fine, " said Rachel. She went to reach for her cup of coffee and found that she didn't have the energy to even lift her arm.

It's about making a choice to make your marriage a priority, to, kind of, put that at the top of the page, as your mission statement or something.

If he could just have one more chance, he'd act like the man he'd always believed himself to be.

Why hadn't that been part of his stupid lifelong redemption program: Do what my wife asks immediately so she doesn't feel like a nag.

Do you think there could be a universe next door?

Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.

You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.

People can do what they like in the privacy of their own homes.

Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.

You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes.

Every marriage, every family, has its mysteries.

Women always reveal their deepest secrets to each other.

When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family.