Marion Quotes

1. "Why must I do what is hardest?" "Because, Marion, you are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?"
Author: Abraham Verghese

2. "I chose the specialty of surgery because of Matron, that steady presence during my boyhood and adolescence. 'What is the hardest thing you can possibly do?' she said when I went to her for advice on the darkest day of the first half of my life.I squirmed. How easily Matron probed the gap between ambition and expediency. 'Why must I do what is hardest?''Because, Marion, you are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?'But, Matron, I can't dream of playing Bach...I couldn't read music.'No, Marion,' she said her gaze soft...'No, not Bach's 'Gloria'. Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you."
Author: Abraham Verghese

3. "Gee, I'm sorry I didn't hear you in all this rain. Go ahead in, please."Anthony Perkin's Norman BatesTalking To Janet Leigh's Marion Crane."
Author: Alfred Hitchcock

4. "Maxwell Arbus was the reason Saul lost an eye?" "Yes," Millie answers stiffly. "But that was a long time ago. Saul has moved on. So have I." Whatever checks I'd held on my emotions shatter. "Moved on?!" Whirling around, I storm at Millie, waving my arms like a maniacal marionette. "I don't care if it was so long ago we could only get with a TARDIS! There is no moving on because it's happening right now!"
Author: Andrea Cremer

5. "Erlender thought about Marion Briem and their shared story, which was now at an end. He felt a sense of loss and regret... He thought about their relationship, the experiences they had shared,the story that was part of him, that he could not and would not have done without. It was him."
Author: Arnaldur Indriðason

6. "Each form is inadequate, like a graft to be rejected by its intractable and unrelenting host and thus can only serve a brief and momentary purpose coherent to a context rooted in contiguous reason. This unbridled brash Spirit is, to itself, burdensome, yet dynamic, for it sees no flaw in working within the confines of a closed system to achieve ends that extend beyond it. This Spirit is, in fact, self-deceptive for to achieve such ends, it becomes necessary to bound manipulable fragments of the Self with a twine by which these parts can be joined indissolubly and maneuvered adroitly with the skill of a marionettist."
Author: Ashim Shanker

7. "Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998."
Author: Ato Boldon

8. "I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions."
Author: Bob Balaban

9. "How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!"
Author: Carlo Collodi

10. "Tinsley felt like a puppeteer playing with her marionettes, holding all the strings."
Author: Cecily Von Ziegesar

11. "When may did so, he found every cup and saucer, plate, vase, and bowl standing arranged across the floor like pieces in a scaled-up chess game. "The Whitstable family tree," Bryant explained, entering and setting down his tea tray. "It's the only way I could get it sorted out in my head. I had to see them properly laid out, who was descended from whom." He pointed to a milk jug. "Daisy Whitstable is bottom left-hand corner, by the fireguard. Next to her is the egg cup, brother Tarquin... Now, pass me Marion and Alfred Whitstable over there." "What's their significance?" "We need them to drink out of."
Author: Christopher Fowler

12. "Natürlich, es ist das Ende, und wir sterben. Aber das heißt nicht, dass wir nicht noch lange da sein, andere Menschen finden, spazierengehen, nachts träumen und alles erledigen können, was eine Marionette so tut."
Author: Daniel Kehlmann

13. "[M]y mother read a horror novel every night. She had read every one in the library. When birthdays and Christmas would come, I would consider buying her a new one, the latest Dean R. Koontz or Stephen King or whatever, but I couldn't. I didn't want to encourage her. I couldn't touch my father's cigarettes, couldn't look at the Pall Mall cartons in the pantry. I was the sort of child who couldn't even watch commercials for horror movies - the ad for Magic, the movie where marionette kills people. sent me into a six-month nightmare frenzy. So I couldn't look at her books, would turn them over so their covers wouldn't show, the raised lettering and splotches of blood - especially the V.C. Andrews oeuvre, those turgid pictures of those terrible kids, standing so still, all lit in blue."
Author: Dave Eggers

14. "You know," Marion said, "I met a woman once when I was a teenager. I knew she had gone through a lot but she was so strong, so compassionate. I asked her how she could be the way she was, and you know what she told me?"Hadley shook her head. "She said, 'You can be broken, or broken open. That choice is yours."
Author: Erica Bauermeister

15. "When Marion had been a teenager, she wanted a tattoo. As an oldest child who did mostly what was expected of her, she had been fascinated by the abandon tattoos implied, the willing, blind leap into commitment."
Author: Erica Bauermeister

16. "Francis Marion Tarwater's uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his grave and a Negro named Buford Munson, who had come to get a jug filled, had to finish it and drag the body from the breakfast table where it was still sitting and bury it in a decent and Christian way, with the sign of its Savior at the head of the grave and enough dirt on top to keep the dogs from digging it up. Buford had come along about noon and when he left at sundown, the boy, Tarwater, had never returned from the still."
Author: Flannery O'Connor

17. "The way he was talking to me earlier… makes me think he's starting to feel like God's the cosmic sadist again and he's the marionette.""In other words, God's just torturing him for the kick?"Thomas sighed and set his mostly untouched plate down. "Something like that.""That's not a healthy outlook.""He doesn't feel loved right now, so it's the natural one."
Author: Jessiqua Wittman

18. "Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her."
Author: Joseph Stefano

19. "I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable."
Author: Laini Taylor

20. "My phone buzzes. It's from Karou: a list of conversation openers that I won't be needing. —a) Hi. I'm Zuzana. I'm actually a marionette brought to life by the Blue Fairy, and the only way I can gain a soul is if a human falls in love with me. Help a puppet out? —b) Hi. I'm Zuzana. The touch of my lips imparts immortality. Just sayin'. —c) Hi. I'm Zuzana. I think I might like you."
Author: Laini Taylor

21. "The streets of Prague were a fantasia scarcely touched by the twenty-first century—or the twentieth or nineteenth, for that matter. It was a city of alchemists and dreamers, its medieval cobbles once trod by golems, mystics, invading armies. Tall houses glowed goldenrod and carmine and eggshell blue, embellished with Rococo plasterwork and capped in roofs of uniform red. Baroque cupolas were the soft green of antique copper, and Gothic steeples stood ready to impale fallen angels. The wind carried the memory of magic, revolution, violins, and the cobbled lanes meandered like creeks. Thugs wore Motzart wigs and pushed chamber music on street corners, and marionettes hung in windows, making the whole city seem like a theater with unseen puppeteers crouched behind velvet."
Author: Laini Taylor

22. "Prága utcái olyan fantáziát képeztek, amelyet alig érintett meg a huszonegyedik század – vagy akár a huszadik, esetleg a tizenkilencedik. Alkimisták és álmodozók városa volt, középkori macskakövein gólemek, misztikusok, hódító hadseregek jártak egykor. Magas házak ragyogtak aranyvesszo és kárminvörös és tojáshéjkék színekben, rokokó gipszcsipkékkel díszítve, egyforma piros tetok alatt. Barokk kupolák antik reze zöldellt lágyan, és gótikus tutornyok nyúltak az égbe, hogy felnyársalják a bukott angyalokat. A szél mágia, hegeduk emlékét sodorta, és a macskaköves utcák úgy kanyarogtak, mint megannyi patak. Mozart-parókás banditák kamarazenét játszottak az utcasarkokon, és az ablakokból marionettek lógtak, amelyektol az egész város egyetlen, nagy bábszínháznak tetszett, láthatatlan bábosokkal a bársony mögött. Mindennek fölébe tornyosult a kastély a dombteton, körvonalai élesek voltak, mint a tövisek. éjszaka reflektorfényben fürdött, kísértetiesen."
Author: Laini Taylor

23. "When I was six, I discovered a terrible truth: I was the only human being on the planet. I was the seed and the sower and I made myself several seconds from the event horizon at the end of time - at the x before time began. Indeed, there were six billion other carbon-based sapient life forms moiling in the earth, but none of them were the real McCoy. I'm the real McCoy. The rest? Cardboard props, marionettes, grist for the mill. After I made me, I broke the mold under my heel."
Author: Laird Barron

24. "I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the writing program because I was corrupting the other students."
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton

25. "They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette."
Author: Leif Garrett

26. "O que eu sei é que somos trágicos. Os deuses escolheram assim. Somos todos uma brincadeira deles, marionetes que envelhecem rápido demais, uma experienciazinha carnal - de modo que não lhes interessa a parcimônia: criam uns num caldo de fúria e outros na doçura total."
Author: Leticia Wierzchowski

27. "Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will."
Author: Marion Jones

28. "Good God, with a bountyLook down on Marion County,For the soil is so pore, and so awful rooty, too,I don't know what to God the pore folks gonna do."
Author: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

29. "I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly sad that it's over!"
Author: Matthias Schoenaerts

30. "E o îndrazneala sa-i judeci pe al?ii când tu însu?i n-ai fost decât o marioneta a fricii, dar, din întâmplarile prin care am trecut, am înva?at ca, pentru a se opune raului, omul trebuie sa înceapa prin a se teme de raul din el."
Author: Octavian Paler

31. "We've decided that your birthday present will be a car", said Marion.Danny was touched. "But the thing I can't figure out is, why would I need a new car?""You can't very well gate a girl to the movies, Danny," Leslie replied."I think you're overlooking the biggest point here," said Danny. "I don't need a CAR so I can date. I need a GIRL."
Author: Orson Scott Card

32. "Ci sono cose che si perdono e non tornano indietro; non si possono riavere mai più, se non nella carta carbone della memoria. Ci sono cose a cui sembra impossibile rassegnarsi ma a cui rassegnarsi è inevitabile. Lo scorrere dei giorni leviga il dolore ma non lo consuma: quello che il tempo si porta via è andato, e poi si resta con un qualcosa di freddo e duro, un souvenir che non si perde mai. Un piccolo bassotto di porcellana delle White Mountains. Una marionetta del teatro delle ombre di Bali. E guarda: un calzascarpe d'avorio di un hotel a quattro stelle di Zurigo. E qua, come un sasso che porto ovunque, c'è un pezzetto di cuore altrui che ho conservato da un vecchio viaggio."
Author: Peter Cameron

33. "Nobody moved.Everybody sat in the dark cellar, suspended in the suddenly frozen task of this October game; the wind blew outside, banging the house, the smell of pumpkins and apples filled the room with smell of the objects in their fingers while one boy cried, "I'll go upstairs and look!" and he ran upstairs hopefully and out around the house, four times around the house, calling, "Marion, Marion, Marion!" over and over and at last coming slowly down the stairs into the waiting breathing cellar and saying to the darkness, "I can't find her."Then... some idiot turned on the lights.("The October Game")"
Author: Ray Bradbury

34. "I feel like a marionette - like someone else is pulling the stringsand I have no choice but to comply."
Author: Samantha Schutz

35. "I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength, Marion's determination, and Michael's sly humor. I wasn't sure what I could give, not just yet. But I would know when I told her about the comet, years from now, I would know. And I would lean close to her ear, saying the words no one else could hear, explaining it all. The language of solace and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end."
Author: Sarah Dessen

36. "I've given lots of people chances," she said suddenly, as if Marion was still in the room to hear us. "But there's only so much faith you can have in people."
Author: Sarah Dessen

37. "Romulan or Vulcan?' the ushers asked each guest.Marion, who had been poised to say 'friends of the bride' had responded to the question with an open-mouthed stare, and Jay Omega answered, 'Klingon!" which got them seats in the back row of the Romulan side."
Author: Sharyn McCrumb

38. "I hover over myselfWatching.Mind and body separated,Each in controlAs though there are two puppeteersWorking the strings of my marionette self."
Author: Stasia Ward Kehoe

39. "Inainte sa le reprosezi oamenilor ca sunt scortosi, adu-ti aminte ca asa sunt marionetele."
Author: Teodor Burnar

40. "Working with Omarion is pretty amazing. That's like my brother. He's really cool."
Author: Teyana Taylor

41. "And what a city! The perfect geometric layout, the wide avenues and clean sidewalks, all the monuments bathes in celestial light. The contemps around me hav eno idea how long it will take to rebuild something like this. Do they see the beauty around them? Are they dizzy from the heights on this pinnacle their civilization is teetering upon? No--they troop along, necks crooked into their ancient phones like bent marionettes. Their right cheeks glow."
Author: Thomas Mullen

42. "....with the morbid realisation that his sexual being was a dull thing, a lifeless thing, a mass-produced marionette with chipped paint and fraying strings"
Author: Will Self

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