He who laughs, lasts!
MARY PETTIBONE POOLE To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
MARY PETTIBONE POOLE People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.
MARY PETTIBONE POOLE People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt
MARY PETTIBONE POOLE Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon.
MARY PETTIBONE POOLE You can keep your friends by not giving them away.
MARY PETTIBONE POOLE There are no old people nowadays; they are either 'wonderful for their age' or dead.
MARY PETTIBONE POOLE People who think money can do anything may very well be suspected of doing anything for money.
MARY PETTIBONE POOLE Alcohol is a good preservative for everything but brains.
MARY PETTIBONE POOLE The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
MARY PETTIBONE POOLE To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it, requires brains.
MARY PETTIBONE POOLE The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.
MARY PETTIBONE POOLE Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. -Mary D. Poo...
MARY D. POOLE When there's instant success, there is this expectation that (making it that far) is the norm and th...
AMY PETTIBONE There will be a lot of pressure on us. We know a lot is expected of us. But we like that. We're read...
AMY PETTIBONE We have struggled a little on offense. We'll find our rhythm pretty soon.
AMY PETTIBONE That which does not kill you only makes you stronger. We have played with the best. I look at the st...
AMY PETTIBONE He's off to a great start at bat and on the field.
BOB POOLE We're replacing the bulk of the team. They're young but they bring hunger and hustle.
BOB POOLE I think it's going to be positive for that end of town. I think it's going to be the right fit.
BOB POOLE We just couldn't get timely hitting, very frustrating.
BOB POOLE It may well be that the risk of a terrorist attack on New York airports is greater than that of an a...
BOB POOLE The other pieces I'm not exactly sure of.
BOB POOLE If we can get it into the township and get the necessary approvals, we can get it under way as soon ...
BOB POOLE I'm 0-17 in Milford in the regular season in my 17 years of coaching. When you have second and third...
BOB POOLE The captains are working hard. They set a nice tone and are unselfish. They know we're only going as...
BOB POOLE It was the latter that set off alarm bells in the accounting department, which might have been willi...
BOB POOLE What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!
ERNEST POOLE You know how people have a talent and they want to share it? That was her thing. She gave of her tim...
CATHY POOLE She was a true sportsman. She was courteous. If she lost, she would say, 'Good game. Thanks for play...
CATHY POOLE Both teams had a lot of serving errors. But the biggest problem we had was our passing game. We had ...
CATHY POOLE Of course I'm not happy about the loss. But overall I'm pleased with our performance. The girls play...
CATHY POOLE We might have had our biological families, but this was our extended family. Everyone was a brother ...
CATHY POOLE Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we...
ERNEST POOLE There's a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under ...
CHRISTOPHER POOLE Indeed, Netscape's continued success in distributing millions of copies of Navigator over the Web be...
WILLIAM POOLE This trophy represents us, 2006. It means everything to us because we just got in this district.
DARYL POOLE What we need to do is to allow the market ample room to take care of that problem, which the market ...
WILLIAM POOLE The market has a high degree of confidence the Fed will avoid
WILLIAM POOLE It is quite clear that the markets understand Fed policy to a much better extent than before.
WILLIAM POOLE Our aim is to keep inflation, in general, down. If I had to pick a point, it is to keep these broad ...
WILLIAM POOLE Maintaining inflation stability is the central responsibility of the central bank. But we don't want...
WILLIAM POOLE We don't have any schedule in front of us.
WILLIAM POOLE It will be in the interest of future Fed chairmen to commit to pursue policy regularities that work ...
WILLIAM POOLE It is highly desirable that policy practice be formalized to the maximum possible extent,
WILLIAM POOLE I see no reason why we should not see a similarly benign inflation outcome this year,
WILLIAM POOLE We want to focus on civil rights and education.
BOBBY POOLE It is quite clear that the markets understand Fed policy to a much better extent than before. My own...
WILLIAM POOLE My personal experience is that I find it exceedingly difficult to predict how people will interpret ...
WILLIAM POOLE I don't think anyone in the league can cover him in the slot, ... He's got so many moves that he use...
NATE POOLE Monetary economists have not yet developed a formal rule that is likely to have better operating pro...
WILLIAM POOLE We're absolutely opposed to an extension of the hours.
BOB POOLE that one might reasonably regard as commercially significant.
WILLIAM POOLE They must have forgot about me. I was running the point, then I dropped back because Brandon wanted ...
DARYL POOLE Devices such as digital cameras, color printers, high-definition displays and cell phones all have m...
WILL POOLE I do feel it's at the peak of something special. Maybe not the peak, but it's something special. Whe...
WILL POOLE At a minimum, the (Fed's policy panel) can and should aspire to policy statements that are clear and...
WILLIAM POOLE We have all made mistakes, each and every one of us. The trick is to not keep making them over and o...
SARA POOLE True sleep eluded me. Morpheus is a capricious god; he comes easily to some and only with greatest d...
SARA POOLE 4chan's culture is unique and spreads and draws people in like no other. It's also important...
CHRISTOPHER POOLE A journalist asked this to my father. He spent a day with me and interviewing my friends/colleagues ...
CHRISTOPHER POOLE Jerry, entertainment spending for sports may be a problem in Cleveland, but it is doing just fine in...
WILLIAM POOLE Monetary economists have not yet developed a formal rule that is likely to have better operating pro...
WILLIAM POOLE Other economy-wide developments, especially income and employment growth, typically exert a much gre...
WILLIAM POOLE We know they've got a good team. They've got a lot of good personnel on their team, and you've got t...
DONALD POOLE They've got pretty good size. But we can't worry about what somebody else has got. We've got to just...
DONALD POOLE Pearl River told me they didn't do that anymore that that program ended last year. I used them last ...
JOHN POOLE We performed better than it looked like we would on paper and I am very proud of the great job our w...
CRAIG POOLE We had some bright spots and it was very good competition overall. We're going in the right directio...
CRAIG POOLE This is our best meet of the season and our people did some really good things. The athletes did som...
CRAIG POOLE When people meet me, and I'm generally pretty sociable, and I meet some definition of normal, th...
CHRISTOPHER POOLE They exited the year with inventories in pretty darn good shape.
DAN POOLE It's actually a darn good fit. If you weed through the actions, not only the plant closures, but als...
DAN POOLE This deal makes a lot more sense than anything they've shown us recently. They're doubling the size ...
DAN POOLE It was not great, just good. The consumer spent a little better than many expected. Consumer confide...
DAN POOLE A win's a win. We're still in the hunt for the playoffs.
DAVE POOLE He's a speedy kid and a tough runner. He hits the hole. One kid cannot bring him down.
DAVE POOLE I think it's good for our city. I didn't know until somebody told me (that the two schools hadn't pl...
DAVE POOLE For a lot of people, 4chan is their tree house - they go there to hang out. You can actually see the...
CHRISTOPHER POOLE When someone steps out and says something as audacious as, 'This is wrong' or 'This is right,' you o...
GREG POOLE My vision is the long vision, long-term vision for Raleigh, just like the people who laid this city ...
GREG POOLE Go into Central Park, you don't have people living in the park, you don't have business and industry...
GREG POOLE We can have a park in North Carolina that's world class.
GREG POOLE We spread our scoring around a little. Rachelle is just about always our leader, but Christine Crand...
JASON POOLE That's what Saturday is about. It's a big step, but it's definitely the beginning.
LAREN POOLE For the first time in my life, I really had to do something so we made a pact to stay and change the...
LAREN POOLE I told them I needed a sign, so Bobby and Jason actually painted a sign that said 'GO' and left it o...
LAREN POOLE The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is n...
ERNEST POOLE All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.
ERNEST POOLE He's going to be excited for this one, ... He doesn't want to lose this game.
NATE POOLE We came out with a sense of urgency and we played strong in the first half. They turned up the half-...
TIM POOLE What I would like to see you say is no, and redo the developer's agreement. Why don't we stop and st...
COUNCILMAN TOM POOLE I'll have a big smile on my face.
COUNCILMAN TOM POOLE People are in business to make money, and I can't see why the city would subsidize those things.
COUNCILMAN TOM POOLE We could pass an ordinance that accomplishes the same purpose. Then, it won't cost us anything.
COUNCILMAN TOM POOLE We might as well buy the whole package.
COUNCILMAN TOM POOLE We should do the event center parking.
COUNCILMAN TOM POOLE The city's going to have to take care of this itself.
COUNCILMAN TOM POOLE The only one I would really question was the need for the landscaping, but given it is only $100,000...
COUNCILMAN TOM POOLE Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
MARY BERRY My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
MARY GARDEN I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
MARY GARDEN I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.
MARY GARDEN If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'...
MARY GARDEN Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw...
MARY GARDEN My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of ...
MARY GARDEN In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always st...
MARY GARDEN Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence...
MARY GARDEN I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I cou...
MARY GARDEN For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
MARY GARDEN In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was con...
MARY GARDEN A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything...
MARY GARDEN My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
MARY GARDEN It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was thei...
MARY GARDEN Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse...
MARY GARDEN Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY SHELLEY If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any...
MARY ASTELL I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished ...
MARY QUANT Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
MARY MARTIN When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a...
MARY KARR Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I ...
MARY HASKELL There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokera...
MARY SCHAPIRO When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bow...
MARY QUANT I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of differe...
MARY DALY Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria...
MARY BERRY I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn&#...
MARY BERRY I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes...
MARY BERRY To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary natu...
MARY WEBB In my end is my beginning.
MARY STUART You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
MARY SCHMICH 'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
MARY SCHMICH For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
MARY SCHMICH TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no...
MARY SCHMICH The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
MARY SCHMICH The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
MARY SCHMICH You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
MARY SCHMICH Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w...
MARY SCHMICH In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n...
MARY SCHMICH Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
MARY SCHMICH Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and...
MARY SCHMICH On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p...
MARY SCHMICH I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew...
MARY SCHMICH Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha...
MARY SCHMICH Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ...
MARY SCHMICH Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air...
MARY SCHMICH Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye...
MARY BERRY Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
MARY CHENEY One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ...
MARY BARRA I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O...
MARY BERRY When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that...
MARY BARRA If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
MARY BERRY I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan...
MARY BERRY Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J...
MARY BUCKLEY The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we...
MARY MCDOWELL Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci...
MARY KARR But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhi...
MARY SHELLEY The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
MARY STEWART Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are...
MARY DOUGLAS When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.&#...
MARY MATALIN In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a gene...
MARY AUSTIN When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of he...
MARY AUSTIN Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.
MARY AUSTIN We have 60 hills of rhubarb now. When we bought the farm in 1946 we found it coming up in the pastur...
MARY AUSTIN If you are not at your ideal body weight and are not active, over time, you have a risk of diabetes.
MARY AUSTIN Our emergency preparedness is always an ongoing priority. We're constantly working on it at the Clin...
MARY AUSTIN The Stoughton tornado was probably a motivator as well, because that could just as easily have been ...
MARY AUSTIN What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, bu...
MARY AUSTIN People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker
MARY AUSTIN These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity i...
MARY AUSTIN The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me.
MARY ROACH People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was....
MARY KARR To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it again...
MARY OLIVER My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and chil...
MARY ENGELBREIT A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
MARY SHELLEY The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
MARY STEWART Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
MARY QUANT To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol...
MARY MCCARTHY Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wr...
MARY HEMINGWAY But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they a...
MARY BALOGH ...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag...
MARY MCCARTHY Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up childre...
MARY WESLEY The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career t...
MARY BARRA World peace starts with the Creator- Jesus!!
MARY KATE We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
MARY MCCARTHY A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a ...
MARY ASTOR A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
MARY ASTOR It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
MARY ASTOR The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.
MARY ASTOR Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.
MARY SCHMICH To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certain...
MARY STUART Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at ...
MARY CATHERWOOD It's like a candy store for an illustrator, I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the ...
MARY GRANDPRE to live in this world

you must be able
to do three things
to love what is morta...
MARY OLIVER You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles thro...
MARY OLIVER The Uses Of Sorrow

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved on...
MARY OLIVER Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, w...
MARY OLIVER Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
MARY OLIVER