Marjory Stoneman Douglas Quotes

Sometimes, I tell them more than they wanted to know.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

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• Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Women
  • Guns

• I love doing kids' films.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Kids
  • Doing
  • Films

• One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Distance
  • Qualities
  • Close

• I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Situation
  • Most
  • Zombie

• In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Life
  • Women
  • Man

• Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Done

• I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Happy

• I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Coach

• A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Horse
  • Fly

• I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Style
  • Try
  • Trapped

• You don't want to be too hot in the club. And ambience is important - no fog machines.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Important
  • Want
  • Fog

• Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • America
  • Christian
  • Years

• A woman always remembers. Remember that.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Remember
  • Always
  • Woman

• Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Kind
  • Alien
  • Test

• There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Bad
  • Taste
  • Italy

• You alone are enough.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Alone
  • Enough

• I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Language
  • Read
  • Ancient

• You can't regulate a soul into a business.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Business
  • Soul

• I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Truth
  • Darkness
  • Dogma

• I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

  

  David Soul
  • Time
  • Management

• We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

  

  Jean Henri Fabre

• Sometimes, I tell them more than they wanted to know.

  

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas