Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the...
GREGORY MAGUIRE People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim...
GREGORY MAGUIRE When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are...
GREGORY MAGUIRE The wall read:
ELPHIE LIVES
OZMA LIVES
THE WIZARD LIVES
and then
EVERYONE L...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection i...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.
GREGORY MAGUIRE While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone over...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding o...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Sometimes thought Liir-his first thought in weeks and weeks-sometimes I hate this marvelous land of ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don't like, out of natural antipathy amplified...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world t...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thin...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I had really tried to do everything else but [revisit Oz]. Partly because I knew there would be some...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I like to think I'm a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilt...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Yes, ... It's called 'Son of a Witch.'
GREGORY MAGUIRE Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.
GREGORY MAGUIRE The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.
GREGORY MAGUIRE Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
GREGORY MAGUIRE As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're...
GREGORY MAGUIRE It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been un...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the b...
GREGORY MAGUIRE You're fun to look at," decided Galinda.

Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said.

I'd ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now...
GREGORY MAGUIRE And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!
GREGORY MAGUIRE In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place.
GREGORY MAGUIRE I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if t...
GREGORY MAGUIRE He lingered at the door, and said, 'The Lion wants courage, the Tin Man a heart, and the Scarecrow b...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I hate to be obvious," added the Scarecrow, "but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Thanks to our artists, we pretend well, living under canopies of painted clouds and painted gods, in...
GREGORY MAGUIRE The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure o...
GREGORY MAGUIRE It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who cou...
GREGORY MAGUIRE No one is exempt from grief.
GREGORY MAGUIRE Don't wish,"said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Night-time is being brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before th...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Night is brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haun...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I'm just doing your tea, Mum," he said.
"Are you all imbecilic? Is that a requirement of enlis...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I have always felt like a pawn... My skin color's been a curse, my missionary parents made me sober ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I thought if this catches on, that would be a sign from God I should move here,
GREGORY MAGUIRE Son of a Witch,
GREGORY MAGUIRE The tedious never die; that's what makes them tedious.
GREGORY MAGUIRE Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history
GREGORY MAGUIRE They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls you...
GREGORY MAGUIRE The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the sou...
GREGORY MAGUIRE If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.
GREGORY MAGUIRE Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere -...
GREGORY MAGUIRE You need my help? What for? Bread, cash, a fake identity to help you slip sideways through the crack...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a st...
GREGORY MAGUIRE He set out once more, with a sense that his life would be rich in setting outs, and perhaps poorer i...
GREGORY MAGUIRE 'Bridget Jones' is meant to be a funny night out, but with emotional truth. I wanted to make...
SHARON MAGUIRE I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.
TOBEY MAGUIRE That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most imperso...
EMILY MAGUIRE I've had every kind of humiliation, from playing in Gala Bingo halls to doing a PA in a Glaswegi...
SEAN MAGUIRE I'm very lucky with the people that recognise me - it's at a very tolerable level. I don'...
SEAN MAGUIRE For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.
SEAN MAGUIRE Real love should draw no blood from the loved and buckets from the lover.
EMILY MAGUIRE Our cafe is going to be open on the first of May.
NICHOLE MAGUIRE If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes...
TOBEY MAGUIRE You had me at hello.
JERRY MAGUIRE To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You kn...
TOBEY MAGUIRE [He says he does have a favorite person to work with:] [Tom] Cruise, man. No contest. He was very ki...
JERRY MAGUIRE Show me the money
JERRY MAGUIRE One of my earliest memories is my father telling me to behave because I'm about to meet and work...
SEAN MAGUIRE Hart is one of the best around. He's a tremendously strong, tough, fast athlete, who has all the too...
SHAWN MAGUIRE I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of m...
TOBEY MAGUIRE The nighttime crowd is definitely the same as it always was. The big difference is at daytime. It st...
FAY MAGUIRE To be competitive for a league championships and to fight as a top team. We expect a lot from our ki...
SHAWN MAGUIRE Let's be honest, this is a game where The Citadel gets a nice paycheck.
PAUL MAGUIRE My mom wanted to be an actress, so she figured her son could be one for her. She said she'd give me ...
TOBEY MAGUIRE I am a blank slate-therefore I can create anything I want.
TOBEY MAGUIRE Rod Tidwell: Anyone else would have left you by now, but I'm sticking with you. And if I have to rid...
JERRY MAGUIRE No man is too big to be kind...but many men are too little.
MATT MAGUIRE I've been pretty fortunate; everybody I've worked with has been pretty ego-free and they're just the...
TOBEY MAGUIRE There's been some times where it's been rough. It's not the easiest thing to leave a situation where...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE I love exploring psychology and getting inside someone's head or exploring the dynamics of how coupl...
TOBEY MAGUIRE You simply cannot control other people's thoughts or actions and you can't even necessarily control ...
TOBEY MAGUIRE I think women have the advantage over men - they tend to be much more in touch with their feelings a...
TOBEY MAGUIRE Every actor has to establish a presence that not only fits the overall needs of the story but allows...
TOBEY MAGUIRE I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I disco...
TOBEY MAGUIRE Though investors were rattled by the lack of Q&A following a terse call, we believe reticence reflec...
EDWARD MAGUIRE When we look at the economic fundamentals in Japan, and how they've unfolded in the last six months,...
GLENN MAGUIRE One thing it highlights, again, is the wrong-headedness of the notion that higher state taxes and in...
MATTHEW MAGUIRE The neighborhood was really stark. The main feature of the neighborhood was the viaducts that ran ov...
FAY MAGUIRE People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate.
TOBEY MAGUIRE I started working around eigth grade. I remember doing a Doritos commercial where there were four da...
TOBEY MAGUIRE Depending on the location, the bridge would mean potential economic foundation we don't have right n...
BRUCE MAGUIRE In Queensland we operate under about 15 different [funding] contractual arrangements.
BRUCE MAGUIRE We're just in the process of digesting what that means and how we will respond.
BRUCE MAGUIRE A lot of people celebrate their past, but I don't look at it all. I don't Google myself; I f...
SEAN MAGUIRE As a young actor, it's important to see how the greatest in the industry work... diva behavior i...
SEAN MAGUIRE We think stock weakness is overdone and would be buyers at current levels.
EDWARD MAGUIRE Given generally negative sentiment on the stock, signs of stability could prove positive for the sha...
EDWARD MAGUIRE You kind of like to do games. If that's part of the deal, hey that's fine, too.
PAUL MAGUIRE My friends hated going out with me because people think they can grab you and talk to you how they w...
SEAN MAGUIRE He's got over 800 now. so if he continues his average of more than 20 points a game, he could do it....
DAVE MAGUIRE He could make a run for it. He's averaged about 25 points a game this season, so who knows.
DAVE MAGUIRE He's a pure shooter; that's his best asset. He's not afraid to pull up from anywhere on the court, a...
DAVE MAGUIRE I've had to tell him repeatedly to shoot more often. When he was a freshman, I had to bench him a co...
DAVE MAGUIRE It wasn't the cleanest game we've played. They're really excited, so I think they may have been over...
DAVE MAGUIRE They're a young team, but they managed to battle back. We were down by quite a bit in the first half...
DAVE MAGUIRE The fans were getting into the game after that three. So that run that Mark gave us was huge in stop...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE Any time, any place? I ask, gazing out across the glittering lake.
A breeze disturbs it's silv...
EDEN MAGUIRE If I'm in a social situation sometimes I'll hang back and observe people but I feel very muc...
TOBEY MAGUIRE The end result is that they sent me a bill for $31,000 due on Oct. 8 which is a weird day to pick be...
FRANK MAGUIRE They are saying that I am the same as a landlord. They said I should have been collecting taxes for ...
FRANK MAGUIRE Elast-Eon is a very clean material that is free of the silicone oil that has been leaching out of ge...
FRANK MAGUIRE Now they're too firm,
FRANK MAGUIRE It makes all the sense in the world to move ahead and take it to the stage where we're ready for cli...
FRANK MAGUIRE The take-away from the meeting is we're on the right track,
FRANK MAGUIRE It was nights that kept us open. Mostly weekend nights.
FAY MAGUIRE It's unambiguously good news for Japan. It signals the dark days of deflation are behind us.
GLENN MAGUIRE When we look at investment, it appears to be structurally too low. The political tension will hold d...
GLENN MAGUIRE These reports are clear evidence that the consumer caution that drove the slowing in the economy in ...
GLENN MAGUIRE Progressively, the skill set of the population is growing.
GLENN MAGUIRE Today's numbers highlight the inappropriateness of rate-cut expectations.
GLENN MAGUIRE It's a mutually complementary relationship. Most of the economic and trade relationship between the ...
GLENN MAGUIRE Given gasoline is such a small component of the household basket in Japan, it should be having an al...
GLENN MAGUIRE He's so smart he knows that it's maybe more important here to run an extra 45 seconds off the clock ...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE He's a special kid for us. You've got two Division I basketball players. You've got E.J. Jones getti...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE That's what Mark does. He hustles on every play and gets lost in the mix until he does something lik...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE Spencer doesn't have to shoot and score to make plays for us. He's our leader. I've said that before...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE We realized it was an important game for us because an opportunity for an undefeated season doesn't ...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE It was just back and forth and nobody could ever get the upper hand. We just knew that we need to ex...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE Spencer's definitely our leader, on and off the court, by example. He doesn't yell. I don't think we...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE Alton has a great team. You've got to give them a lot of credit. They came out here and played on ou...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE It was just an amazing feeling just to look up and you don't see any empty seats. To come out here k...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE Sarah felt like the bad girl in an eighties teen flick. The girl with big hair and a tight shirt who...
EMILY MAGUIRE Fucking was poetry unbound.
EMILY MAGUIRE And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much...
EMILY MAGUIRE Sarah learnt a lot from Alex. Like the way men could say one thing, then another, then act in a way ...
EMILY MAGUIRE The thing I never understood about love is that it can't be quelled, like lust can. With love, if yo...
EMILY MAGUIRE But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people yo...
EMILY MAGUIRE She was both beautiful and a member of one of the 'first families' of San Antonio — two qualities b...
JACK MAGUIRE Two years ago, he swam the 50-meter butterfly in 37 seconds. That's quick, but a high school athlete...
JACK MAGUIRE Almost all of the athletes in Special Olympics have intellectual disabilities of one degree or anoth...
JACK MAGUIRE A terrible sadness threatened to overwhelm me as I wondered how two people capable of such love for ...
TONI MAGUIRE I'll tell you . . .
PAUL MAGUIRE We know some of our fans were shocked and ... upset. I totally understand it. My problem is, when do...
MARTIE MAGUIRE It's the people who have gone overboard and done such irrational things that take you back to the da...
MARTIE MAGUIRE You guys are going to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, ... What an honor.
MARTIE MAGUIRE Hand-washing, wearing clothes that minimize the spread of infection such as clean, closely woven cot...
PETER MAGUIRE I'm just grateful for the opportunity to say thanks to Pat for the thousands of persons whose lives ...
ROBERT MAGUIRE They're doing a great job.
NICHOLE MAGUIRE It's a very big game next week for us. They got done last week and they're a very proud side, Brisba...
MATT MAGUIRE I didn't need much time to prepare, we've got so many leaders out on the ground. But he (Ball) will ...
MATT MAGUIRE I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I d...
TOBEY MAGUIRE Adoption is not about finding children for families, it's about finding families for children
JOYCE MAGUIRE PAVAO Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship b...
DICK GREGORY Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an...
LADY GREGORY If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd h...
DICK GREGORY Star Trek's insight lay in the promise of going to the stars together, with well-defined stereot...
GREGORY BENFORD We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and...
LADY GREGORY Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as b...
LADY GREGORY There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
LADY GREGORY From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after tim...
LADY GREGORY I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tong...
LADY GREGORY The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
LADY GREGORY It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every...
LADY GREGORY I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
LADY GREGORY The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon ...
LADY GREGORY It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the M...
LADY GREGORY What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
LADY GREGORY It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it w...
LADY GREGORY It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
LADY GREGORY It takes madness to find out madness.
LADY GREGORY Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good pla...
LADY GREGORY Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on ear...
LADY GREGORY What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may b...
LADY GREGORY To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of u...
LADY GREGORY My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two mon...
LADY GREGORY Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, ...
GREGORY HARRISON As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal colu...
GREGORY BENFORD We should be happy. We should be enjoying that there is all this bounty. Somebody can take an iPod a...
GREGORY STOCK In coastal waters rich in runoff, plankton can swarm densely, a million in a drop of water. They col...
GREGORY BENFORD The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY People who drink four or more cups of coffee a day - it doesn't matter whether it is caffeinated...
GREGORY STOCK So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but arou...
GREGORY HARRISON You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it ...
DICK GREGORY Never underestimate the value of cold cash.
GREGORY NUNN Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was c...
GREGORY BENFORD there is no such thing as a harmless truth.
GREGORY NUNN It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
GREGORY NUNN A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
GREGORY NUNN The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.
GREGORY NUNN All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
GREGORY NUNN When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
PHILIPPA GREGORY Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit...
PHILIPPA GREGORY A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to sup...
PHILIPPA GREGORY