This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way...
MAUREEN JOHNSON Debbie had to get up and slice me a thick piece of cake before she could answer. And I do mean thick...
MAUREEN JOHNSON I followed your footsteps," he said, in answer to the unspoken question. "Snow makes it easy."
...
MAUREEN JOHNSON When she emerged, Keith was watching the tiny round window of the under-the-counter washing machine....
MAUREEN JOHNSON I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very differe...
MAUREEN JOHNSON Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones...
MAUREEN JOHNSON In my mind, I said the best things to Elton. I wrote countless excellent notes that I never sent. I ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON You're...a demon hunter?'
'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON I live alone," Knud said, "and I work alone, but I am never truly alone. I do my ancestor's work. I ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON Good stuff!" [Knud] said. "All organic, of course! All fresh! We take care of the earth here! You li...
MAUREEN JOHNSON Early the next morning, they were on a tram out to the far edge of Amsterdam. Ginny liked the tram. ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.
MAUREEN JOHNSON Before she could answer, the waiter sprang at his chance to brush some crumbs from David's chair. He...
MAUREEN JOHNSON WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORT...
MAUREEN JOHNSON Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I s...
MAUREEN JOHNSON Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.
MAUREEN JOHNSON Did you ask people to crime scenes on dates?
MAUREEN JOHNSON I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me th...
MAUREEN JOHNSON Rory: "People are being serious."

Jazza: "There's a serial killer out there. Of course pe...
MAUREEN JOHNSON I sleep better knowing that a naked cork-eater is not sneaking around at night, stealing my underwea...
MAUREEN JOHNSON I try to shake it loose-but these ideas, they cling. It's like I'm shackled to them with an iron cha...
MAUREEN JOHNSON ...but somehow when it's real, when it's your life... that person can feel even farther off and more...
MAUREEN JOHNSON I've heard people on panels say, 'You must have a Web site. You need to tweet. Repeat the ti...
MAUREEN JOHNSON A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes....
MAUREEN JOHNSON Many large corporations are actually modeled on hell,' Brother Frank added. 'The policies and organi...
MAUREEN JOHNSON The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts...nothing can stop th...
MAUREEN JOHNSON He knows,"I said. "I tell him everything"
"Does that go both ways?" he asked.
"Does what g...
MAUREEN JOHNSON It rang and it rand and it rang. I looked at the screen one last time, then at Stuart, and then I re...
MAUREEN JOHNSON Maybe you've never fallen into a frozen stream. Here's what happens.
1. It is cold. So cold tha...
MAUREEN JOHNSON We can assure you we are taking action on all the possible causes out there.
MAUREEN JOHNSON The progress has been just stunning.
MAUREEN JOHNSON All kinds of technology has been brought to the North Slope, and the way it was actually found was t...
MAUREEN JOHNSON It's nice to see such a hard working student awarded for his dedication and hard work.
MAUREEN JOHNSON We haven't ruled either of those locations out.
MAUREEN JOHNSON We know where it isn't, not where it is.
MAUREEN JOHNSON Boo: "Go talk to her."

Callum: "About what?"

Boo: "Anything."

Callu...
MAUREEN JOHNSON Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys a...
MAUREEN DOWD John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'...
MAUREEN O'HARA Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact tha...
MAUREEN DOWD We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.
MAUREEN REAGAN It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my neares...
MAUREEN CORRIGAN Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, b...
MAUREEN DOWD It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception doe...
MAUREEN PHILLIPS Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. Y...
MAUREEN CONNOLLY I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of...
MAUREEN REAGAN I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of...
MAUREEN REAGAN The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
MAUREEN DOWD The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two f...
MAUREEN MURPHY The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men...
MAUREEN O'HARA Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.
MAUREEN O'HARA Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, e...
MAUREEN FORRESTER The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
MAUREEN DOWD In the beginning it was all black and white.
MAUREEN O'HARA I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get a...
MAUREEN FORRESTER The guilty pleasure I miss most when I'm out slogging on the campaign trail is the chance to spr...
MAUREEN DOWD Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.
MAUREEN O'HARA I am building a healthy support system and learning to use it readily.
MAUREEN BRADY As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho ca...
MAUREEN DOWD Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, bu...
MAUREEN DOWD The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
MAUREEN DOWD Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, ...
MAUREEN DOWD I feel like I owe it to the readers to try to pull back the veil and give them the honest version of...
MAUREEN DOWD Mystery, like faith, defies human logic.
MAUREEN MOSS I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.
MAUREEN O'HARA A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or ...
MAUREEN MCCORMICK One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns holes in your skin ...
MAUREEN MEDVED The wound-tight, travel-light Obama has a distaste for the adversarial and the random. But if you st...
MAUREEN DOWD Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. ...
MAUREEN MCCORMICK Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Redd...
MAUREEN DOWD The C.E.O. of Google doesn't look like a Dick Cheney World Domination sort whom we should worry ...
MAUREEN DOWD The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
MAUREEN DUFFY [Last week, George W. Bush told] New York Times ... I'm smart enough to know what I don't know.
MAUREEN DOWD United States of Shame
MAUREEN DOWD As the water recedes,
MAUREEN DOWD OK, I'll predict that the rapture's coming and you and I, Chris [Matthews], are going up, and all th...
MAUREEN DOWD They have been painting the barn red and white, chasing skunks from the stage, clearing bird nests f...
MAUREEN DOWD One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
MAUREEN DOWD Aside from his scintilla of candor, Mr. Bush is still not leveling with us. As he said at his press ...
MAUREEN DOWD If that were to happen, the institution most in danger would be the newspaper in your hands.
MAUREEN DOWD She more than earned her sobriquet, 'Miss Run Amok'.
MAUREEN DOWD I'm just not temperamentally suited to it,
MAUREEN DOWD We are supposed to believe that every dollar given to a Clinton is a dollar that improves the world....
MAUREEN DOWD The studio thought I was crazy to perform all of my own fencing stunts, but I loved it.
MAUREEN O'HARA I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nob...
MAUREEN FORRESTER CFOs need to proactively mitigate technology risks.
MAUREEN O'CONNELL Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.
MAUREEN O'HARA My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.
MAUREEN O'HARA Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But w...
MAUREEN DOWD How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?
MAUREEN O'HARA I'm into clothes, but in a way that's related to wanting to walk into a film noir movie. You...
MAUREEN DOWD If you've been drinking, you're still drunk, and energy drinks won't take away from that.
MAUREEN MILLER We're exempted, but we're voluntarily doing it.
MAUREEN KAHN Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.
MAUREEN O'HARA The US is aggressively targeting bilateral trade agreements around the world with countries that rep...
MAUREEN FITZHENRY We have no concern with the BASF wheat, because it's not GM.
MAUREEN FITZHENRY Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.
MAUREEN MURPHY Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahl...
MAUREEN FORRESTER Anna Wintour hadn't been to any of McQueen's shows, and McQueen didn't like it. McQueen said America...
MAUREEN CALLAHAN You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.
MAUREEN LIPMAN We've all been there. You feel embarrassed, but let it go.
MAUREEN COONEY Things get spilled. It happens.
MAUREEN COONEY If someone is truly intimidated, they're not going to recommend it to their friends. One good turn d...
MAUREEN COONEY Do some math, and make sure everyone gets something.
MAUREEN COONEY Do your best to eat a little. Try to be an adult.
MAUREEN COONEY You work from the outside in.
MAUREEN COONEY But don't go to the bottom of the menu either.
MAUREEN COONEY Let's face it. You're not going to order lobster.
MAUREEN COONEY We condemn this harassment of independent activists seeking to participate peacefully and constructi...
MAUREEN BYRNES What is unique about the My Medicare Matters(TM) campaign is that it is a grassroots, on-the-ground ...
MAUREEN KELLY I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mer...
MAUREEN O'HARA Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they...
MAUREEN FORRESTER It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame a...
MAUREEN FORRESTER Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.
MAUREEN O'HARA Cartridges were misplaced or lost. Entire precincts are suspect because cartridges failed.
MAUREEN MURPHY McChrystal's defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men�...
MAUREEN DOWD Since 1998 Sen. Harkin has secured a total of $116 million for the initiative, the first of its kind...
MAUREEN KNIGHTLY My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.
MAUREEN O'HARA Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of do...
MAUREEN DOWD His House colleagues still call him "Jackie One Note"-joking that if you ask him how to solve the pr...
MAUREEN DOWD The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. -Maureen Duffy.
MAUREEN DUFFY The markets are clearly disappointed.
MAUREEN ALLYN This [report] gives the Fed total latitude to do whatever they think is fitting.
MAUREEN ALLYN The price we have to pay for all this is someplace. Early in the century, we're going to see a real ...
MAUREEN ALLYN The Fed ought to like it [the producer price report], and personally I'm breathing a huge sigh of re...
MAUREEN ALLYN This is kind of capping a string of fairly strong numbers, and I'm even going to have to boost my es...
MAUREEN ALLYN We just don't see the wage pressures and I think the bond market is so happy because that means ther...
MAUREEN ALLYN Private sector credit from 1999 through the first half of 2001 was adding $1.2 trillion per year. It...
MAUREEN ALLYN That's all got to be cleaned up. The stock market's going to struggle until that happens, and the ec...
MAUREEN ALLYN With profits in such a tailspin, I'm revising down my capital expenditure outlook for the next six t...
MAUREEN ALLYN It certainly looks like [new claims] have peaked. You're looking at several weeks where they've come...
MAUREEN ALLYN Our position is that we're not opposed to biotechnology, although we had specific concerns with Roun...
MAUREEN FITZHENRY Unfortunately, he can't do that anymore,
MAUREEN REAGAN No one wants you dropping dead at the table. If you're a picky eater, that's totally different.
MAUREEN COONEY I'm not going to let my opponent take something away from me. I want it more than anyone else, and a...
MAUREEN SHEA It is an honor and a privilege that I am to be the sponsor of the USS Michael Murphy.
MAUREEN MURPHY It's not a dramatic fallout, and I don't see any evidence of panic. It's much more of a gradual adju...
MAUREEN ALLYN These initiatives Sen. Harkin fought to include in the farm bill as chairman, however, remain under ...
MAUREEN KNIGHTLY Greenspan's testimony to Congress is always an event and probably more so this time than usual. We a...
MAUREEN ALLYN He said he was involved with the Lions. I said 'What's a Lion?'
MAUREEN MURPHY She was a very loving person, a very compassionate person. She was brutally murdered left in a ditch...
MAUREEN KELLY Our need to be "greater than" or "less than" has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act ...
MAUREEN BRADY Because we were treated neglectfully and abusively in our young years—when we most needed self-lov...
MAUREEN BRADY In order to survive our youth, many of us became sensitized to which conditions we had to play to, t...
MAUREEN BRADY Many of us learned that keeping busy…kept us at a distance from our feelings...Some of us took the...
MAUREEN BRADY McChrystal never should have been hired for this job given the outrageous cover-up he participated i...
MAUREEN DOWD I think we're going to have to begin to believe that we're not in an inflationary environment. Soone...
MAUREEN ALLYN If you can lay off all those people at GM and still have 66,000 new jobs created last month, that's ...
MAUREEN ALLYN It was just the sheer demand of people wanting stuff and the demand of supplying it.
MAUREEN ALLYN It's not really a surprise.
MAUREEN ALLYN Companies have to learn to live with keeping their costs down. They're not going to get pricing powe...
MAUREEN ALLYN You really don't want to do any sudden moves. The economy is doing really well. Why fix it? It doesn...
MAUREEN ALLYN At least it's a beginning... They'll do more if they need to.
MAUREEN ALLYN Power is confusing for us, perhaps even terrifying, because our relationship with it had an unfortun...
MAUREEN BRADY When we are ready to let go of our old controls, we admit that we were powerless over the incest or ...
MAUREEN BRADY It showed they were hasty thinkers.
MAUREEN COONEY It is a childish notion that once established, our boundaries will never be transgressed again...We ...
MAUREEN BRADY Obama invented himself against all odds and repeated parental abandonment, and he worked hard to reg...
MAUREEN DOWD I've been inspired by Coco Chanel. She broke all the rules of her time when she was designing. S...
MAUREEN CHIQUET In the grief that comes with recognizing what happened to us, we often feel there is nowhere to turn...
MAUREEN BRADY And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out ...
MAUREEN DOWD Depending on the weather sometimes he has a scarf. If it's been awhile, like a lot of us were gone o...
MAUREEN SHEA It just sort of gets us focused, gets us going, kinda know why we're here.
MAUREEN SHEA I love having her back there — between her and Stephanie and our other two outside backers, it jus...
MAUREEN SHEA She was disoriented. She was out and had to be helped to her corner, despite the fact that she was s...
MAUREEN SHEA I was having a real tough time in my personal life. I had been involved in an abusive relationship w...
MAUREEN SHEA I'm really excited. That college is the most family-oriented place. They're just wonderful.
MAUREEN SHEA I was told to see what she had, make adjustments, and be aggressive. That's my style anyway.
MAUREEN SHEA This time I fought a very good boxer in Casson, who had several fights under her belt, and I believe...
MAUREEN SHEA It felt great to be on that stage in front of so many friends and family. It was different than figh...
MAUREEN SHEA Seamless service is an important offering.
MAUREEN COULTER Pre-paid has made a difference to all the operators.
MAUREEN COULTER The problem in roaming through agreements is in providing third-generation mobile services such as d...
MAUREEN COULTER We each have our own ways of sabotaging & keeping ourselves down…Do we need to remain the vict...
MAUREEN BRADY The good thing about working in children's publishing is that they change how they interact, so you ...
MAUREEN O'CONNELL How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?
MAUREEN O'HARA I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.
MAUREEN FORRESTER God has a most wicked sense of humor.
MAUREEN O'HARA Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinki...
MAUREEN CORRIGAN Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.
MAUREEN O'HARA The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they ...
MAUREEN DOWD For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.
MAUREEN DOWD I really wanted to be an opera soprano.
MAUREEN O'HARA Even if our survival skills have become impediments we would like to let go of because they have cea...
MAUREEN BRADY Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinne...
MAUREEN DOWD Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
MAUREEN O'HARA It's nice to see so many dresses in the house. Usually it's dirty jeans and cleats.
MAUREEN CROSS By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on th...
MAUREEN FORRESTER Sorely in need of a tight editorial leash, (Miller) was kept on no leash at all, and that has hurt t...
MAUREEN DOWD I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.
MAUREEN O'HARA For change to occur in us, we must be willing to enter the wilderness of the unknown and to wander i...
MAUREEN BRADY When shame is met with compassion and not received as confirmation of our guilt, we can begin to se...
MAUREEN BRADY I am filled with truth at my center where I once held shame.
MAUREEN BRADY I value and honor the way that my suffering brings me to further search and surrender.
MAUREEN BRADY I choose what sort of relationship I want to have with my family of origin today.
MAUREEN BRADY I am empowered by self-knowledge, by ownership of my experiences, and by all aspects of myself.
MAUREEN BRADY I create a home that is a safe and nurturing place for me, where I am free to gather myself.
MAUREEN BRADY I look upon the gift of my life as a wondrous journey.
MAUREEN BRADY I choose to let positive attitudes lighten my being today.
MAUREEN BRADY Fearing the unknown within myself has kept me crouching in a corner. I look to see who I am and disc...
MAUREEN BRADY