I had turned to leave and he had called after me. “Miss Maria, I kin no other woman who could be wearing men’s trousers and be dripping such as ye are and look quite so lovely. It’s a right shame your mother is marrying you off to that great sot!”
I had turned to call back to him, “I doubt very much we will have to worry about that after today!


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ORVILLE WRIGHT
We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive ...
JUDITH WRIGHT
There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass...
JOE WRIGHT
In a lot of action films, a lot of guys are driving muscle cars or vintage cars, whereas in reality,...
EDGAR WRIGHT
I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to...
TERESA WRIGHT
If God dropped acid, would he see people?
STEVEN WRIGHT
The fact that people still know us is, in my opinion, a result of our music and of the big money tha...
RICK WRIGHT
Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers a...
GARY WRIGHT
I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop,...
STEVEN WRIGHT
I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of t...
STEVEN WRIGHT
I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral ...
STEVEN WRIGHT
Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socia...
JUDITH WRIGHT
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how fa...
RICHARD WRIGHT
I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
STEVEN WRIGHT
If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, d...
STEVEN WRIGHT
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
STEVEN WRIGHT
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
RICHARD WRIGHT
I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an...
STEVEN WRIGHT
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
STEVEN WRIGHT
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
STEVEN WRIGHT
A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
STEVEN WRIGHT
I don't mind that I am not necessarily a household name, because I think my characters have outs...
JEFFREY WRIGHT
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
STEVEN WRIGHT
In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be...
STEVEN WRIGHT
It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.
STEVEN WRIGHT
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
STEVEN WRIGHT
I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
STEVEN WRIGHT
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
STEVEN WRIGHT
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its po...
ORVILLE WRIGHT
I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps yo...
JEFFREY WRIGHT
If you're the head of a business, there's a protocol that people have to follow.
ROBIN WRIGHT
Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating.
ROBIN WRIGHT
You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love.
ROBIN WRIGHT
I'm tired of biting my tongue.
ROBIN WRIGHT
People buy box sets, and they sit for a whole weekend with a computer on their lap in bed, and they ...
ROBIN WRIGHT
You're never going to be able to delve into the character traits of a Michelle Obama or Hillary ...
ROBIN WRIGHT
My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it ...
ROBIN WRIGHT
Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And h...
ROBIN WRIGHT
Electronics companies are purchasing the minerals that come out of the Eastern Congo, and they are i...
ROBIN WRIGHT
Learning what you don't want is how you know what you do want.
ROBIN WRIGHT
Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the s...
ROBIN WRIGHT
If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day.
ROBIN WRIGHT
After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variati...
ROBIN WRIGHT