My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into ...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disapp...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going ar...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, lik...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK I imagine you working on me as an algebra problem, reducing me to fractions, crossing out common den...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK Arriving to class late is disruptive of the learning process. I think that it is disrespectful to bo...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK But enough to feel the pain. Enough to feel the scream inside.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK Then I place the blade next to the skine on my palm.
A tingle arced across my scalp. The flood...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK Hey, S.T.," Sydney says finally.
I don't budge.
She nudges me with her elbow. "You want ...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK Rochelle," she calls out, still looking at me. "Is there anyone down at the desk? I need something."...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK People who aren't asleep when Ruby comes around have to take sleeping pills. Everyone is afraid of t...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK Then I placed the blade next to the skin on my palm. A tingle arched across my scalp. The floor tipp...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK Sometimes when we’re in situations where we feel we’re not in control, we do things, especially ...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time aro...
TERRY MCCORMICK I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. ...
SIERRA MCCORMICK Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.
CYRUS MCCORMICK Trying to do business without advertising is like winking at a pretty girl through a pair of green g...
CYRUS MCCORMICK If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beau...
SIERRA MCCORMICK A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or ...
MAUREEN MCCORMICK Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. ...
MAUREEN MCCORMICK Based on what we're hearing from the front lines of our fuel service stations, there currently is no...
CAROLYN MCCORMICK We continue to be carefully optimistic.
CAROLYN MCCORMICK At this moment in time, with all the information I have, I am comfortable with saying that we will h...
CAROLYN MCCORMICK We get our fuel from fuel lines from Virginia and Northern areas and that supply is healthy.
CAROLYN MCCORMICK We've seen a marked increase from New Jersey. . . . It is growing.
CAROLYN MCCORMICK I hate that not-in-my-backyard mentality, but this is America's backyard, ... With one hazard, you c...
CAROLYN MCCORMICK The events of the past month help make clear that the United States must become more energy independ...
CAROLYN MCCORMICK We do have a problem with geese, but we take care of it the best we can.
JIM MCCORMICK Even though we run a cursory version of it, Dan has a lot to learn about the Princeton offense. Prov...
KEVIN MCCORMICK You either need to score or get out of bounds quick, and some guys up front sprung him and did a nic...
JOHN MCCORMICK We do not know who initiated or why an investigation was initiated in Brooklyn, but we have been coo...
ANDREW MCCORMICK I prepare her with the wardrobe for the Miss Wisconsin Pageant.
MARILYN MCCORMICK It looks premature to be calling for an end to the tightening cycle.
JAMES MCCORMICK It is infinitely easier to criticize than to create.
JOHN MCCORMICK We will not block, impair or degrade content, applications or services. That is the plainest and mos...
WALTER MCCORMICK It's her private farm, and I run the business out of it.
JOHN MCCORMICK It's a state-of-the-art hunter-jumper training center,
JOHN MCCORMICK As far as we're concerned our city council doesn't respect the work that our people do ... so this f...
JOHN MCCORMICK I can recall never seeing any type of lists,
JOHN MCCORMICK The Star Spangled Banner,
JOHN MCCORMICK They took such care laying the blocks. As they were building this house, every one of the stones, ev...
JOHN MCCORMICK It won't be forgotten by our members,
JOHN MCCORMICK We recommended it and our membership accepted it, but they weren't very happy with this deal,
JOHN MCCORMICK There are certain activities we are trying to discourage [in China]. At the other end of the scale, ...
DAVID MCCORMICK This is a significant discovery. It's an exciting paper. It's definitely the way you would go about ...
ANNA MCCORMICK This is a significant discovery. It's an exciting paper.
ANNA MCCORMICK It is reported by medical professionals that [the eye exam] is not necessary. It is not something th...
JOHN MCCORMICK All in all I'm real proud of our guys. I've stood up in this crow's nest six different times and not...
JOHN MCCORMICK We're very sensitive to not killing the goose that laid the golden egg here. But with that said, we ...
DAVID MCCORMICK I kept asking when the elephants were gonna arrive and the tents were gonna raise, cause it was kind...
JOHN MCCORMICK This way, the (molten) glass is always spinning on a new axis and becomes spherical.
MARILYN MCCORMICK I used the dump religiously.
JIM MCCORMICK Turning, she looked out at the icy landscape, the soaring trees, branches dark and bitten blue with ...
MCCORMICK TEMPLEMAN We have an indoor covered arena, an outdoor arena, 200 acres of trails and 90 acres of lush pasture....
JOHN MCCORMICK The forests of the South are among the richest in terms of total number of species of any habitats i...
STEVE MCCORMICK The forests of the South are among the richest in terms of total number of species of any habitats i...
STEVE MCCORMICK The sale of the building is truly a milestone for our organization. It's been the goal of the board ...
STEPHANIE MCCORMICK Regulatory or legislative solutions wholly without justification in marketplace activities would sti...
WALTER MCCORMICK Getting three in the first end was great, but we knew we had nine ends left and that wasn't going to...
DEBBIE MCCORMICK Coal is a relatively inexpensive form of energy compared to petroleum, and the United States has abu...
BOB MCCORMICK I'm not in a position to say that all athletes are clean. I'm not naive enough to say that. But to s...
BOB MCCORMICK It's the little details that guys do to make their bikes stand out from the next guy.
BOB MCCORMICK We think the underlying momentum in the Fed policy story warrants more explicit long dollar exposure...
JAMES MCCORMICK Sebring is one of our bread-and-butter sedans in terms of providing good, solid transportation at a ...
KEVIN MCCORMICK You always think of L.L. Bean as the catalog company, but now we're the Web company.
CHRIS MCCORMICK If a dealer wants to offer additional incentives to compete in that local market, he's certainly fre...
KEVIN MCCORMICK We laid down an ink trail to confuse the other runners.
KEVIN MCCORMICK What bothers me is suddenly there's this inherent distrust of the judiciary, ... Suddenly, we're bla...
MICHAEL MCCORMICK As a dancer, it's hard because there's such a perfectionist quality that you really have to ...
KATHRYN MCCORMICK She is our kid that we need on base in that situation. Her speed is such a burst, I think she can go...
SCOTT MCCORMICK We were going to play a little bit more conservative, but in the first end we really had no choice, ...
DEBBIE MCCORMICK You never know with teams that are out of it. They can play loose, come out with their A games, beat...
DEBBIE MCCORMICK Every experience builds confidence and you learn from everything.
DEBBIE MCCORMICK I'm more relaxed, I'm more confident, I know what I want to play, so it's a lot better feeling. We a...
DEBBIE MCCORMICK It's totally different. Winnipeg was my first year skipping. It was kinda 'what's going on.' There w...
DEBBIE MCCORMICK We only have to win one more to get in the 1-2 game so we're still not looking too far ahead and we ...
DEBBIE MCCORMICK By rushing out a one-sided rule that encourages only land line to wireless transfers, that promise w...
WALTER MCCORMICK He (Hermann) was excited to meet us. We all started going to different events ? spiritual churches, ...
CHANDRA MCCORMICK In all this time, they should have found everybody they have down there.
CHANDRA MCCORMICK This is not good at all. But we have each other. And we have our family, and that's going to keep us...
CHANDRA MCCORMICK In the past, the [Federal Communications Commission] repeatedly has expressed its commitment to port...
WALTER MCCORMICK The significant difference between Proust and Faulkner, for Sartre, is that where Proust discovers s...
JOHN MCCORMICK There is a gap between publications from U.S. and non-U.S. groups. With the current trajectory, if t...
JENNIFER MCCORMICK I knew at that time this was in fact an attack. We knew that the World Trade Center was the target o...
MICHAEL MCCORMICK Technology has become the plumbing of education, ... You expect it to work.
JIM MCCORMICK He got what he deserved. I'm a happy camper.
JANE MCCORMICK I'm really glad it's not condos going in there.
JANE MCCORMICK I'm so glad, I've been waiting to hear this. I know it sounds terrible, but that was everything I ha...
JANE MCCORMICK We're all passionate about what we do. But it shouldn't boil down to that.
JAMES MCCORMICK A continued decline in U.S. equity purchases will be a telling sign of foreign appetite for U.S. sec...
JAMES MCCORMICK There is a reasonably strong case for economic growth in Europe.
JAMES MCCORMICK The Asian currency rally has arrived, ... most Asian currencies should appreciate by a much larger m...
JAMES MCCORMICK Without a doubt, it's going to be a very disappointing year for those who have been looking for an A...
JAMES MCCORMICK The news out of the U.S. the past few weeks is clearly dollar positive.
JAMES MCCORMICK He was first guy to see the high returns that could be earned on credit cards,
JAMES MCCORMICK The United States can't allow its technology and scientific strengths to lessen because it will affe...
JENNIFER MCCORMICK There's a character in the book called Bill the Lizard, and our Bill the Lizard is a surfer dude.
JENNIFER MCCORMICK The whole time, from when it hit to when the government actually got there, you knew (people) were d...
JENNIFER MCCORMICK A man came on from Feed the Children. And he said, 'I challenge you all across America to get togeth...
JENNIFER MCCORMICK We maintain that our rates are competitive and reasonable and appropriate for the risk in Texas.
JOE MCCORMICK We have to make sure that one or two storms are not going to wipe out the company.
JOE MCCORMICK Let's say your mortgage is $1,000 a month and you found an apartment at $1,200 a month. Allstate wil...
JOE MCCORMICK For now just stage them, and we'll arrange them when we get the map.
JOE MCCORMICK It's probably more than we needed.
JOE MCCORMICK I think a lot of resources are being stretched right now, and always with any catastrophic weather e...
JOE MCCORMICK I've also noticed a lot of the older rock being re-mastered and released on CD. Classic rock does we...
JEFF MCCORMICK The music industry is trying all kinds of new things. But I've never had anyone request swing music ...
JEFF MCCORMICK Two weeks ago, I came out and told these guys I didn't know anything. They helped me out a ton. With...
MATT MCCORMICK We did underestimate the challenge sludge posed.
MATT MCCORMICK She talked me into taking my car down there and sure enough I could hear a log scraping the car unde...
MARILYN MCCORMICK The original patent didn't have dimensions and contained just enough information to obtain a patent ...
MARILYN MCCORMICK If he's having second thoughts, maybe your column and a look at Posada's Web site will persuade him ...
MIKE MCCORMICK It's only a traffic infraction. It's like a speeding ticket.
MAUREEN MCCORMICK A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he s...
MAUREEN MCCORMICK This is the nightmare scenario for Harper. I don't know how much they can get done.
PETER MCCORMICK Everything fell into place for us tonight.
SAMMIE MCCORMICK That team was a lot more than those two. We expect them to field a good team this year.
SAMMY MCCORMICK [The dichotomy in the courts' treatment of abortion and embryos could change the approach of fathers...
MICHAEL MCCORMICK Time will tell what happens this winter.
TRACY MCCORMICK Things are just too dynamic and unknown for the district to be constrained by such criteria.
SUPERINTENDENT CHARLIE MCCORMICK Whatever punishment does to a nation it does not induce a sense of guilt
ANNE O'HARE MCCORMICK Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
ANNE O'HARE MCCORMICK The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillation, and ...
ANNE O'HARE MCCORMICK It was an okay game for us for the first game back after Christmas break.
COACH LYNN MCCORMICK The big question is how you pay for it. It's the best idea I've heard so far. We're moving in that d...
REP. GERALD MCCORMICK We certainly need to secure the borders. I'm opposed to a border system that works like a sieve We a...
REP. TERRI MCCORMICK The administration is not willing to recommend a plan that would likely result in this number of bou...
SUPERINTENDENT CHARLIE MCCORMICK Whatever's got you down is causing a great deal of stress. Pick yourself up and reflect on the posit...
BIANCA MCCORMICK-JOHNSON It was great having Stephen with us. It has been a long haul for him and I know he is really hopeful...
COACH LYNN MCCORMICK Our TEAM defense was the difference in this game. I thought we were very aggressive defensively and ...
COACH LYNN MCCORMICK This visit, a pre-primary endorsement before the voters and my neighbors have had the opportunity to...
REP. TERRI MCCORMICK A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specia...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle re...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on t...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like th...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting proje...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brothe...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ It takes one person to give you a big chance.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
PATRICIA SUN There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Becaus...
PATRICIA SUN Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thin...
PATRICIA SUN We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style o...
PATRICIA SUN We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ig...
PATRICIA SUN When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we h...
PATRICIA SUN The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out....
PATRICIA SUN I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were ta...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a cand...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are ...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their proces...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of ...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER You measure a government by how few people need help.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the f...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if th...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never a...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching ...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without th...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fe...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than oth...
PATRICIA RIGGEN Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic d...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and h...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
PATRICIA RIGGEN The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
PATRICIA RIGGEN The idea that women compete or don't like each other or undermine each other or sabotage each ot...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don&#...
PATRICIA RIGGEN Directors only have instinct to work out of, because there is no formula. Formulas don't work. A...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because the...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
PATRICIA RIGGEN I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
PATRICIA RIGGEN I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
PATRICIA RIGGEN I am tired of having to prove myself constantly, even after being hired. Every single day, every sin...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days afte...
PATRICIA RIGGEN The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out t...
PATRICIA RIGGEN