Texas Guinan (Mary Louise Cecilia) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
-
Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
-
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
-
I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
-
I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
-
When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
-
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
-
Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
-
Someone has to stand up for wimps.
-
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
-
The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
-
I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
-
Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
-
Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
-
My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.
-
I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.
-
I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians.
-
I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
-
Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, has there ever been a hint, not even a whisper, that a Black person was involved in the assassination of the president. But that's the kind of thing you have in this movie.
-
Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
-
My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.
-
The point is to solve problems, not point fingers.
-
We are seeing online social norms that support really irresponsible communication. Kids think that on the Internet 'I have free speech and I have the right to say what I want without regard to the harm it may cause,' which is obviously not true and is a message that parents need to get across to children.
-
Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far.
