Mary MacLane Quotes

I went to Goucher College in Maryland for the best possible reasons - to learn - but then I dropped out at 19 for the best possible reasons - to become a writer.

I was taught by my parents that people who are loud don't have anything to say. I've found if you're suggesting quite big changes, a quiet style may be reassuring.

I think it's good for parents to be supportive, to motivate, and to somewhat nudge their kids because the majority of kids will want to quit something when it gets hard - that's just their nature. Children will normally take the easier road.

I'm not very good at time off. I'm happier when I'm working. It's something to do with not knowing what the next job is, so you appreciate it while it's there. I thrive on it, actually. But now I do it to please myself.

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

I love to wear red lipstick a lot, even in the daytime.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

When you see a tumour in the brain, it's an ugly looking thing. It's kind of black, grisly and messy. Or it can be white. To see it taken away is just amazing.

I'm a huge Marlene Dietrich fan. She's got this raunchy kind of strength. It would be hard to find a man who could come up with something hard for her to handle. She's seen it all and done it all.

If I ever retire, I want it to be in the KISS-FM jersey.

My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

Sometimes it's just 'Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.' I'm not going to lie to you - I deal with that temptation every single day, many times.

Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was.