Our house was the most lit-up house on Frazier Street.
MURIEL COOPER He came off as gruff, but the kids could see beneath that. He was about giving the kids opportunity.
MURIEL COOPER I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.
MURIEL SPARK If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death...
MURIEL SPARK Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive ...
MURIEL SPARK I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian thir...
MURIEL SPARK If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you m...
MURIEL SPARK To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is ...
MURIEL SPARK Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things...
MURIEL RUKEYSER To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is ...
MURIEL SPARK When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small th...
MURIEL BARBERY To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
MURIEL SPARK A loser seldom lives in the present, but instead destroys the present by focusing on past memories o...
MURIEL JAMES One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your p...
MURIEL SPARK I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice....
MURIEL RUKEYSER One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
MURIEL SPARK It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
MURIEL SPARK The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
MURIEL RUKEYSER One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize yo...
MURIEL SPARK Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
MURIEL SPARK Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
MURIEL SPARK It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
MURIEL SPARK The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
MURIEL RUKEYSER They didn't recognize me," I repeat.
He stops in turn, my hand still on his arm.
"It is be...
MURIEL BARBERY When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of imm...
MURIEL SPARK I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice....
MURIEL RUKEYSER The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.
MURIEL RUKEYSER Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of ...
MURIEL SPARK Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit... Partnership, not d...
MURIEL FOX Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and...
JAMES MURIEL It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
MURIEL SPARK The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms
MURIEL RUKEYSER Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
MURIEL RUKEYSER Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things...
MURIEL RUKEYSER The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality
MURIEL RUKEYSER To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it...
MURIEL SPARK Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of ...
MURIEL SPARK Dreams the sources of action, the meeting and the end, / a resting-place among the flight of things.
MURIEL RUKEYSER I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.
MURIEL RUKEYSER We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we ju...
MURIEL BARBERY One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being ...
MURIEL RUKEYSER The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the...
MURIEL RUKEYSER However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, i...
MURIEL RUKEYSER The journey is my home
MURIEL RUKEYSER And on the way home I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beau...
MURIEL BARBERY Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
MURIEL BARBERY I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
MURIEL BARBERY Godfrey's wife, Charmian, sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical...
MURIEL SPARK All my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine ...
MURIEL SPARK Even if I didn't have a brokerage, I'd want to talk with a broker. You have big accounts, long-term ...
MURIEL SIEBERT Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.
MURIEL BARBERY In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no pe...
MURIEL RUKEYSER I am putting old heads on your young shoulders...all my pupils are the creme de la creme.
MURIEL SPARK Flight is intolerable contradiction.
MURIEL RUKEYSER Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
MURIEL RUKEYSER Most people, when they move, well they just move depending on whatever's around them. At this very m...
MURIEL BARBERY If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-wor...
MURIEL SPARK This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender tha...
MURIEL BARBERY When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything ...
MURIEL BARBERY The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects.
MURIEL BARBERY Sólo se me ocurre el psicoanálisis para rivalizar con el cristianismo en la predilección por los ...
MURIEL BARBERY ...only one man lived who could understand MURIEL RUKEYSER I am going to die, but that is of no importance.
MURIEL BARBERY It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on t...
MURIEL SPARK Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life
MURIEL SPARK We're going to see what Bush says tonight, and we're going to see what Greenspan says tomorrow -- no...
MURIEL SIEBERT We have a knowledge of harmony, anchored deep within. It is this knowledge that enables us, at every...
MURIEL BARBERY In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from...
MURIEL BARBERY There is always the easy way out, although I am loath to use it. I have no children, I do not watch ...
MURIEL BARBERY ... c'est peut-être ça la vie : beaucoup de désespoir mais aussi quelques moments de beauté où ...
MURIEL BARBERY ...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyo...
MURIEL BARBERY It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselve...
MURIEL BARBERY . . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beau...
MURIEL BARBERY We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor...
MURIEL BARBERY If you dread tomorrow it's because you don't know how to build the present, and when you don't know ...
MURIEL BARBERY But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They ha...
MURIEL BARBERY Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is is the universal lie that everyone is suppo...
MURIEL BARBERY Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.
MURIEL BARBERY There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so muc...
MURIEL BARBERY I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gain...
MURIEL BARBERY The tea ritual: such a precise repetition of the same gestures and the same tastes; accession to sim...
MURIEL BARBERY I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess...
MURIEL BARBERY Do you know that it is in your company that I have had my finest thoughts?
MURIEL BARBERY When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literar...
MURIEL BARBERY Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fort...
MURIEL BARBERY I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the founda...
MURIEL BARBERY I have finally concluded, maybe that's what life is about: there's a lot of despair, but also the od...
MURIEL BARBERY If you have but one friend, make sure you choose her well.
MURIEL BARBERY People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simple...
MURIEL BARBERY All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine fo...
MURIEL SPARK For the first time in my life I understood the meaning of the word 'never'. And it's really awful. Y...
MURIEL BARBERY Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot un...
MURIEL RUKEYSER Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal lo...
MURIEL SPARK What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.
MURIEL RUKEYSER Je savais qu'un afflux inespéré d'énergie l'avait levé de son lit, lui avait donné la force de ...
MURIEL BARBERY Sandy felt warmly towards Miss Brodie at these times when she saw how she was misled in her idea of ...
MURIEL SPARK [...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]
MURIEL SPARK But those of Miss Brodie's kind were great talkers and feminists and, like most femini...
MURIEL SPARK I'm not saying anything against the Modern side.
Modern and Classical, they are equal...
MURIEL SPARK It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.
MURIEL SPARK But now they were all fifteen, there was a lot they did not tell each other.
MURIEL SPARK  I'd rather deal with a rogue than a fool.
MURIEL SPARK Nothing infuriates people more than their own lack of spiritual insight.
MURIEL SPARK The word ‘education’ comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading ou...
MURIEL SPARK I am putting old heads on your young shoulders,' Miss Brodie had told them at the time.
MURIEL SPARK O where shall I find a virtuous woman, for her price is above rubies.
MURIEL SPARK  One's prime is the moment one was born for. 
MURIEL SPARK Do you know, Sandy dear, all my ambitions are for you and Rose. You have got insight, perhaps not qu...
MURIEL SPARK Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underne...
MURIEL SPARK In fact, it was the religion of Calvin of which Sandy felt deprived, or rather a specified recogniti...
MURIEL SPARK The Brodie set did not for a moment doubt that she would prevail. As soon expect Julius Caesar to ap...
MURIEL SPARK ... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority.
MURIEL SPARK It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due
MURIEL SPARK 4:15. Not 4 not 4:30 but 4:15. She thought to intimidate me with the use of quarter hours.
MURIEL SPARK Miss Brodie was easily the equal of both sisters together, she was the square on the hypotenuse of a...
MURIEL SPARK One’s prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your...
MURIEL SPARK The word 'education' comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. T...
MURIEL SPARK These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, ...
MURIEL SPARK Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
MURIEL SPARK It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but...
MURIEL SPARK For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the s...
MURIEL SPARK Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your si...
MURIEL SPARK The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. T...
MURIEL SPARK For a few seconds Maria did not move, or even breathe, apparently. Then she gave a sorrowful gulp an...
MURIEL BARBERY Iata deci cugetarea mea profunda pe ziua de azi: e pentru prima oara cand intalnesc pe cineva care c...
MURIEL BARBERY Elsewhere the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nation...
MURIEL BARBERY She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.
MURIEL SPARK Hildegard had long felt that sentimentality was a luxury she could not afford.
MURIEL SPARK There are only two moments when everything is possible in this life," said Petrus, "when one drinks,...
MURIEL BARBERY Qui croit
Pouvoir faire du miel
Sans partager le destin des abeilles?
MURIEL BARBERY I am an advocate for older citizens. I want to change the image in this country people have of older...
MURIEL SAUNDERS There is more to this sport than just the skill of placing your discs. You have to know how to outwi...
MURIEL ROWLAND I truly believe that Betty Friedan was the most influential woman, not only of the 20th century but ...
MURIEL FOX You are stronger than you think. I have weathered many storms, tragedies, and heartaches in my life�...
MICHELLE MURIEL When we move, we are in a way de-structured by our movement toward something: we are both her...
MURIEL BARBERY I've never been a Burger King person. I'm a total McDonald's person.
ANDERSON COOPER My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that's procrastination.
RON COOPER I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It...
ANDERSON COOPER So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next c...
JACKIE COOPER I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like ...
JACKIE COOPER The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personalit...
JACKIE COOPER In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
JACKIE COOPER So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the pe...
JACKIE COOPER I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of me...
JACKIE COOPER But I want to do good work, after this series.
JACKIE COOPER But the working I would always want to do.
JACKIE COOPER A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.
JACKIE COOPER I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock a...
JACKIE COOPER Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and the...
JACKIE COOPER From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.
JACKIE COOPER I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them...
JACKIE COOPER So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
JACKIE COOPER So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
JACKIE COOPER There was only so much television you could do.
JACKIE COOPER To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
JACKIE COOPER They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
JACKIE COOPER People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they n...
JACKIE COOPER A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
JACKIE COOPER They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.
JACKIE COOPER There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
JACKIE COOPER So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go a...
JACKIE COOPER I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the dire...
JACKIE COOPER They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs becau...
JACKIE COOPER If it's boring, then it's tiring.
JACKIE COOPER There are some people who are Burger King people, and there are some people who are McDonald's p...
ANDERSON COOPER I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like tha...
BRADLEY COOPER Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.
JIM COOPER It's probably the worst basketball we've played all year, and it couldn't have come at a worse time....
AL COOPER I think the team was so happy for playing a good half that they forgot we had 16 more minutes to pla...
AL COOPER That's heroic stuff. We knew he'd be (our top player as a freshman) and he's worked hard to develop....
AL COOPER We've got some question marks with regards to pitching. (But) we're a lot more than just (Clark). We...
AL COOPER I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't...
BRADLEY COOPER At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
JILLY COOPER The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.
GARY COOPER I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had...
GARY COOPER The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.
GARY COOPER In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
GARY COOPER I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks ...
JILLY COOPER You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city wi...
ALICE COOPER A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of...
PETER COOPER There is nothing sadder to see people who lived a good decent life dead on the side of the road. I u...
ANDERSON COOPER I'm not showing tight shots of rotting corpses. We've tried to be respectful. We don't want anyone t...
ANDERSON COOPER She's still out there. There are rats roaming around, and I wonder if no one knows who this woman is...
ANDERSON COOPER Hell yes! I've been fighting the hard fight to try and get money, I KNEW this was gonna' happen and ...
ANDERSON COOPER These people deserve to have the world watching what is happening to them,
ANDERSON COOPER To me, those are the heroes of the story. It was government that failed. It was people who stood up.
ANDERSON COOPER [Anyway,] Awkward T.V. Moments ... I decided at the last second that I just had to have my laptop. S...
ANDERSON COOPER I wouldn't call it looting. What I have seen is desperate people kind of wandering around here in do...
ANDERSON COOPER I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjo...
ANDERSON COOPER It's not happening, they're nowhere near the airport.
ANDERSON COOPER The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
ALICE COOPER Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor gam...
DON COOPER It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i...
MICHELLE COOPER Sometimes I wonder if I'm nothing more than the sum of who [my parents] were. Even worse, I worry th...
COOPER DAVIS So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said ...
TOMMY COOPER I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding pe...
ANDERSON COOPER All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do, ......
ALICE COOPER On the last day of school, it's the national anthem. On that day, it's the most popular song on the ...
ALICE COOPER This community cannot afford to go backwards we need to be moving ahead and moving together regardle...
ALICE COOPER If you blink your eyes or go get a Coke, you've missed 10 things,
ALICE COOPER