Mary Quotations | Page 3

In all honesty, I didn't love reading when I was a kid. I'd rather be running around in the woods or doing my best to scare the pants off all the children in the neighborhood by pretending my house was haunted or making them play Bloody Mary in the bathroom.

I knew that her canvas was deeper than she had allowed herself to be, ... Something About Mary and Charlie's Angels? Come on. This is bigger. And she was very courageous in my opinion and disciplined. Quite disciplined for someone that the public considers ditzy.

I liken what Wal-Mart's trying to do in terms of fashion to turning around the Queen Mary at full steam, ... It's not impossible to do. But it's not easy either, and it's going to take quite a long time.

I'm rather complimented that Mary has caught my passion for photography.

If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.

I had an audition for Mary Jane Watson in 'Spiderman' and ended up playing Betty Brant in that series. I auditioned for Amy Adams' role in 'Catch Me If You Can' and, you know, ended up playing the bank teller. So there were a lot of times early on where I felt like I was always sort of the bridesmaid, never the bride - never quite right.

I really believe this possibly could be Mary Lands. My hope is that if the state police have a dog to verify the findings they will get this case solved.

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. also attributed to Mary Kay Ash

I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of Mary Wollstonecraft: there was a lunch, a contract, a small sum of money, then nothing.

I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language.

'Being Mary Jane,' I really want everybody to see what we've done. I've never watched a project that I've worked and thought, 'Damn that's really good. It's so juicy, and it's hit after hit.'

I don't know if you can measure everybody strictly on statistics. Mary played with a lot of courage, and I think when you look up and see a kid fighting day in and day out with pain because of her passion to want to play, it makes everyone else a little better.

Hollywood was a silver-nitrate finishing school for a whole generation with a faculty that included Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, John Gilbert, Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Lon Chaney, Charlie Chaplin and Rudolf Valentino.

George and Mary Stewart became my unofficial Houston parents and the most wonderful, entertaining, hard-working garden enthusiasts that I could ever hope to know. They were, in fact, not just Houston's Premier Gardeners; they were first-class entertainment.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I was going to squirt tears. How unprofessional.

At Cana, [Mary] gave Him as a Savior to sinners; on the Cross He gave her as a refuge to sinners.

I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.

If I knew the Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich was going to be somewhere, I'd go look at it. But I'd rather see the Elvis cup.

I cannot possibly tell you the precise date I learned that Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute.

I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

That's one of the things I like about Mary Lou. She's willing to believe the worst about anyone.

He specializes in virgins! The brush of his fingertips turns virgins into slobbering mush." Mary Lou Molnar

Whether the Virgin Mary existed, I don't know. But the human need for her to appear in tortilla, that's what inspires my interest.

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.

I hate being good. -Mary Poppins

Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?

I used to refer to myself as Typhoid Mary. It wasn't that I was jinxed, I just seemed to bring ill fortune to anybody I was close to.

You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.

I’m from the health department. You’ve heard of Typhoid Mary? This fella’s got enough typhoid to start his own colony.

You could sense a different atmosphere in here in warm up. Against Mary (last Friday) is was a morgue. But, there was something different (Wednesday).

Allison Janney's character in 'The West Wing' was so rocking! I am a huge fan of Mary Louis Parker and her character in 'Weeds.' My manager says, 'you have to grow into yourself, Allison' because all the characters I want to play are, like, 39.

The Hail Mary portion is the wholesale reform of Medicare. The idea . . . has technical problems to be solved, and it involves concepts around which there is not a major consensus.

The Hail Mary pass is the main thing I remember from that game. Everybody stuck together and we believed we could win that game.

And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; / And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth.

All we want is a fair trial for Mary Carol Winkler. We don't want the field tilted in any way.

The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.

In 1982 I was playing soccer at William and Mary, and a kid from Randolph-Macon called me a kike. I ran after him. 'I'm not a... well, yes I am.

Mary Poppins is magical and fun.

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God’s.

I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige.

I love Mary Poppins - when I was little I was obsessed with it.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

Still amorous, and fond, and billing, / Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.

We need to support Mary Burke for Governor!

The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart

Through Mary, we come to her Son more easily.

Mary’s life shows that God accomplishes great deeds through those who are the most humble.

Mary is more important than the apostles.

We must learn from Mary, and we must imitate her unconditional readiness to receive Christ in her life.

Let us learn from the Virgin Mary how to be bolder in obeying the word of God.

Our Mother Mary is full of beauty because she is full of grace.

Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary