Carolyn Maupin quote: "They had been putting out posters with a very dark picture of Matt that didn't look much like him. We wanted to send a poster with better pictures."

Is this the day Matt will call and tell me he's coming home? Is this the day the Army will call and ...
CAROLYN MAUPIN

We put 10 pictures inside each box with a little note asking them to please help us find him, and al...
CAROLYN MAUPIN

I wonder if he hears the bombs of the soldiers and their rifles.
CAROLYN MAUPIN

We will not let Matt be forgotten. I don't want him left behind. I don't want him left there.
CAROLYN MAUPIN

It's a lot of money, but we are determined to do this, to remember those who have given their lives.
CAROLYN MAUPIN

Twice now they've dropped the ball where we've learned about something happening with our son from o...
CAROLYN MAUPIN

Even though you see a smile, your heart still aches.
CAROLYN MAUPIN

I didn't carry on very well the first three or four months. Then one day I decided it was time for m...
CAROLYN MAUPIN

The information we received was helpful and it showed the Army is actively following up leads concer...
CAROLYN MAUPIN

When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in ...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with any...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because ...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wreckin...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

But I love to travel with my partner, reading, sitting in the garden, smoking dope, and going to mov...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

Too much of a good thing is wonderful
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get t...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

I wish someone older than me and wiser than the people in Orlando had taken me aside.
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the peo...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their live...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own s...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not hiding ...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

men and women, both straight and gay, who don’t consider sexuality in measuring the worth of anoth...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

The hostess extended her swanlike neck and opened her mouth to the fullest. "Aaaahhhaaaahhhhheeeeaaa...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

Look," said Mary Ann evenly, "if I think you're really attractive, there must be plenty of me...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

DEAR MAMA, I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to write. Every time I try to write to you and Papa I...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

Her apartment seemed fussier than ever, as if the doilies and tassels had taken to breeding in their...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

Being gay has taught me tolerance, compassion and humility. It has shown me limitless possibilities ...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

I guess I was less out of shape than I thought I might be. I was just happy to give my team some goo...
ERIC MAUPIN

I was a little afraid at first. I didn't have a lot of confidence when I first went out there. But i...
ERIC MAUPIN

Their (the Panthers') style is a lot different than ours. But we showed that we can run the floor.
ERIC MAUPIN

Two days after his twelfth birthday, a fortnight before his father was jailed for debt, Charles Dick...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

What about San Francisco?"
"What about it?"
"Did you like it?"
She shrugged. "It was ...
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN

I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than wo...
CAROLYN JONES

A canner exceedingly canny
One morning remarked to his granny:

CAROLYN WELLS

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
CAROLYN WELLS

People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by ...
CAROLYN CHUTE

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate -...
CAROLYN WELLS

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we...
CAROLYN WELLS

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;
The books that we would like to read...
CAROLYN WELLS

It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.
CAROLYN LLEWELLYN

Magnesium deficiency can produce symptoms of anxiety or depression, including muscle weakness, fatig...
CAROLYN DEAN

Children have more need of models than of critics.
CAROLYN COATS

Ideas move fast when their time comes.
CAROLYN HEILBRUN

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
CAROLYN WELLS

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.
CAROLYN KENMORE

Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or sil...
CAROLYN KIZER

We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long a...
CAROLYN MALONEY

Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World cou...
CAROLYN MURPHY

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympatheti...
CAROLYN MACKLER

Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible ...
CAROLYN SEE

The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet....
CAROLYN MURPHY

In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into...
CAROLYN SPRING

And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you ...
CAROLYN SPRING

Bemoaning my existence wasn’t changing my existence.
CAROLYN SPRING

As a child, the best way to survive was to be still, to submit—to do nothing that might incur furt...
CAROLYN SPRING

To be loved and to love, takes courage. To be fully seen is incredibly rare and breathtaking. We low...
CAROLYN RIKER

Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.
CAROLYN SEE

Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, bu...
CAROLYN CHUTE

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese frien...
CAROLYN MURPHY

My favorite hotel is the Villa Alilla in Bali. The setting is pure bliss, overlooking the ocean of U...
CAROLYN MURPHY

I didn't learn much about writing at Sarah Lawrence, but I learned a lot about the sources of po...
CAROLYN KIZER

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
CAROLYN WELLS

There is a slave trade still in this country—yes, the real and horrific sex and human trafficking ...
CAROLYN SPRING

It was that culture of denial that allowed my abuse to take place to start with. Did you know that i...
CAROLYN SPRING

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as wor...
CAROLYN WELLS

I was born on the night of Samhain, when the barrier between the worlds is whisper-thin and when mag...
CAROLYN MACCULLOUGH

You see airbrushed images of me, but I know the person who's walking barefoot, dodging dog poo i...
CAROLYN MURPHY

With them having to sit the bench..., it took us completely out of our game.
CAROLYN WRIGHT

I never relaxed because I know they're the kind of team that's going to keep fighting.
CAROLYN WRIGHT

We talked about it during the week and right before the game. We stressed that we wanted to win this...
CAROLYN WRIGHT

We're Utah. We'll be running 90-95 percent (capacity).
CAROLYN WRIGHT

I felt real good about their effort tonight.
CAROLYN WRIGHT

People have actually stood in line at the supermarkets to vote and sign to vote. We now know we are ...
CAROLYN WRIGHT

They're not one of those teams who will sit down to a spanking. They will play you to the end.
CAROLYN WRIGHT

We're excited to host. It's big to have that home court advantage because more of your fans will com...
CAROLYN WRIGHT

With the big lead, I wasn't comfortable. I knew they (Sidney Lanier) would keep on fighting. They wa...
CAROLYN WRIGHT

This is probably the second-most devastating loss of my career. We should have won this one and we l...
CAROLYN WRIGHT

I'm feeling much better. I have a lot of people praying for me, and I have faith.
CAROLYN WITHERSPOON

I tried to stay on top of it. He was a challenge there. He's always been very smart -- not because o...
CAROLYN WITHERSPOON

You would not be able to find one person in this family that didn't think that they could beat anybo...
CAROLYN WITHERSPOON

This is just another valley. We're going to have mountaintops again.
CAROLYN WITHERSPOON

For a kid to see a friend [Collins] experience something like that, when you hear the same term, you...
CAROLYN WITHERSPOON

He has good days and bad days. Sometimes he gets insecure about it because I have days when I don't ...
CAROLYN WITHERSPOON

It makes it really easy.
CAROLYN WILMAN

Now that sounds like a lot but its not a lot when you think of how many a day. I submit about 200 a ...
CAROLYN WILMAN

We won a romantic weekend away to Quebec?a year's supply of gold fish snacks?a year's supply of pizz...
CAROLYN WILMAN

I think it's past $80,000 in five years.
CAROLYN WILMAN

He does this every year to get out to as many counties as he can. He likes to talk to his constituen...
CAROLYN WILLIAMS

No, I haven't heard anything about it.
CAROLYN WILLIAMS

The message is getting out to the public that nursing is a terrific field. We need the resources to ...
CAROLYN WILLIAMS

Nursing has become so much more competitive.
CAROLYN WILLIAMS

But I don't think people are sufficiently concerned about this situation ... If we don't have enough...
CAROLYN WILLIAMS

Nursing education is very people-intensive. You can't just put one more chair in the classroom.
CAROLYN WILLIAMS

Nor can medical schools charge what it costs to train a physician.
CAROLYN WILLIAMS

We need money that schools can use to expand classes. A lot of this depends on the sort of support t...
CAROLYN WILLIAMS

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
CAROLYN WELLS

To make a library it takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interes...
CAROLYN WELLS

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention
CAROLYN WELLS

Of two evils, choose the prettier
CAROLYN WELLS

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate -...
CAROLYN WELLS

We are not the barbecue police. We are not in charge of security.
CAROLYN WELLS

Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, Ho...
CAROLYN WELLS

You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on...
CAROLYN WELLS

I've really enjoyed this season. I've learned a lot and gotten a lot of experience.
CAROLYN WARREN

I was a little intimidated at first because I'm just a sophomore. I think I psyched myself out. Now ...
CAROLYN WARREN

With her I know it's going to be a very good match. Even if I don't win it's a good learning experie...
CAROLYN WARREN

It's a spirited rivalry. This match just carries a little more weight.
CAROLYN WARREN

This is a different kind of scary. There's more pressure out here. I put a lot of pressure on myself...
CAROLYN WARREN

Dictating play is so important, and coming out and taking control. That's going to be one of my goal...
CAROLYN WARREN

It was a wonderful surprise. We did not know that Bertha had remembered the symphony in her will unt...
CAROLYN VALACICH

We submitted an application, and we were one of two orchestras (to be chosen for 2007) ? the other i...
CAROLYN VALACICH

It's a huge contribution by them (Davidson Companies). The only way we got him here was to be able t...
CAROLYN VALACICH

I wish I had three times as many tickets. The symphony office has been besieged in the last few week...
CAROLYN VALACICH

We must have seen 600 clients and agencies before we launched the paper. We talked them through it -...
CAROLYN MCCALL

Our integrated marketing and retail strategy aimed to put the Guardian in the hands of as many peopl...
CAROLYN MCCALL

[Because advertisements generally cost less in tabloids than in broadsheets, the paper has focused o...
CAROLYN MCCALL

The key for peace in Burundi is continuation of dialogue. One person leaves, but the UN remains in t...
CAROLYN MCASKIE

I believe now there's no justification for spending $300 million a year in keeping foreign troops in...
CAROLYN MCASKIE

We are facing the real prospect in two months from now of another catastrophe which can be averted w...
CAROLYN MCASKIE

It's pretty obvious that the response that will be needed will be prolonged food aid relief over nex...
CAROLYN MCASKIE

Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender clas...
CAROLYN MALONEY

It's just aggravating, ... Hale is retired somewhere, fat and happy, while others who are accused of...
CAROLYN MALONEY

It merely says, and I quote, 'equality of rights shall not be denied or abridged by the United State...
CAROLYN MALONEY

Have you tried to understand why the increase in violence even though the amount of policing and mil...
CAROLYN MALONEY

We're apparently not good enough for the Republican convention, ... They would rather stay on a floa...
CAROLYN MALONEY

George W. Bush's first appointment, Dick Cheney, makes it crystal clear that Bush's judicial appoint...
CAROLYN MALONEY

Victims of sexual assault experience traumatic, life-changing events, ... We should work to protect ...
CAROLYN MALONEY

by implying that pro-choice Americans have the same values as terrorists, Hughes insulted millions o...
CAROLYN MALONEY

We have to invest in our infrastructure if we are going to go forward in our city and our state,
CAROLYN MALONEY

I can see you are a former teacher. You are very clear.
CAROLYN MALONEY

I did really gain an appreciation for the strong work ethic of the Japanese people. I had the opport...
CAROLYN LUND

Despite the cultural boundaries, it was easier to live overseas. They would go out of their way to h...
CAROLYN LUND

[The Japanese] have their clocks down to the second; they're never late, so it's always very dependa...
CAROLYN LUND

I realized that I'm not special anymore. I'm just a number. That was hard. I was used to being in th...
CAROLYN LUND

Culture shock was worse coming back than it was going to Japan. My mom had to worry again.
CAROLYN LUND

I remember my second night. I got my first taste of sushi. It was revolting. We kind of jumped right...
CAROLYN LUND

She was his angel, and he was her angel.
CAROLYN LAYNE

Her attention to detail was fabulous. People loved working with her and for her.
CAROLYN LAYNE

We all say the same thing. She was the most gentle, loving person. How could this happen? Who did th...
CAROLYN LAYNE

This was truly horrific and tragic, because they were so close to moving into their dream home. Ever...
CAROLYN LAYNE

She met Daniel right when I met her. They were truly soul mates. ... They're both incredibly passion...
CAROLYN LAYNE

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. - Mannequin: My Life as a...
CAROLYN KENMORE

she said.
CAROLYN JONES

I love books. I've always been involved with books and I wanted to help the library in any way possi...
CAROLYN JONES

to make people aware of the meeting.
CAROLYN JONES

It's so hard. You just want to make it better any way you can.
CAROLYN JONES

It takes my breath away that they do this with volunteers.
CAROLYN JONES

Dr. King's voice was a call to thought and discussion. And that is what we are here to celebrate ton...
CAROLYN JOHNSON

Before this law was passed, a tribal conviction was kind of nowhere.
CAROLYN JOHNSON

The students are selected based on recommendations that come from their instructors and who have dem...
CAROLYN JOHNSON

When I helped out last year, it seemed like it took us longer. So we decided when it was our turn, w...
CAROLYN JOHNSON

You don't see them very often. Also the groin is repeated up here in the fabulous room up in the gra...
CAROLYN JENNINGS

We have all private bathrooms and all private bedrooms leading out to balconies.
CAROLYN JENNINGS

She's having the party a little early in the phase, but she really cares for the community. She has ...
CAROLYN JENNINGS

It's more of an Italian Renaissance feel, but we've added some American feel to it. Even though with...
CAROLYN JENNINGS

During the event we're going to have somebody up there playing the violin.
CAROLYN JENNINGS

We talked a couple of times about what we should do.
CAROLYN JACKSON

It was a difficult campaign, with several major disasters happening all over the world, but, at the ...
CAROLYN JACKSON

We just have to come out and play. This is the time of the year that teams have to step up.
CAROLYN JACKSON

We didn't play our best ball tonight. But at this point in the season we will take the win. We got o...
CAROLYN JACKSON

People will say you lost everything, well no we didn't lose everything because we're here. We're ali...
CAROLYN JACKSON

Our agencies depend on our raising the funds necessary to provide services to those in need in our c...
CAROLYN JACKSON

What a special girl she was. She was quiet, but she was powerful in own right.
CAROLYN JACKSON

We'll be looking at charters of similar-sized cities, what their differences are and whether those d...
CAROLYN JACKSON

We could see what they were in and very hard to deal with. But he's home. Thank God.
CAROLYN JACKSON

Here and there you'd see a tree that was budding or grass trying to grow. There was hope.
CAROLYN HUNTER

Getting Michele back has definitely been a plus.
CAROLYN HUNTER

We didn't start off well; we just didn't have much energy initially. The second half we did a better...
CAROLYN HUNTER

Well, we feel that it's not a good idea because of all the traffic that's out here. The road out her...
CAROLYN HUNTER

We're hoping to put together a stretch of three or four games here that can help us. That's so big -...
CAROLYN HUNTER

It was a great win for us; we really needed this one. We had much better defensive intensity today; ...
CAROLYN HUNTER

Our shots weren't falling, but I thought our defensive effort was a lot better today. We understand ...
CAROLYN HUNTER

He did everything he could to protect himself and come back safely - it just didn't work out that wa...
CAROLYN HOWARD

I feel he should be honored as a hero. He was going to make a career out of the military. He wouldn'...
CAROLYN HOWARD

The last thing that I want is for Courtenay to be a financial burden on Jonathan or any other family...
CAROLYN HOWARD

People have trouble giving up a home that they can't afford, because of the emotions attached to it....
CAROLYN HOWARD

That was climbing Mount Everest for her.
CAROLYN HOWARD

She will probably never be able to balance a checkbook.
CAROLYN HOWARD

He had all these great scenes with his son before pulling the plug. It was really moving the materi...
CAROLYN HINSEY

Flannery is great every year. Let's get someone new in there.
CAROLYN HINSEY

It was a little small-minded of NBC to take their marbles and go home and I don't think the actors a...
CAROLYN HINSEY

He had all these great scenes with his son before pulling the plug. It was really moving ÃƒÂ¢Ã�...
CAROLYN HINSEY

It will basically be a three-hour commercial for the CBS soaps on ABC.
CAROLYN HINSEY

ARMPAC is operating within the law.
CAROLYN HERN

That was all legal at the time.
CAROLYN HERN

He's very excited about the announcement. Robin was pushing for this agreement for the benefit of th...
CAROLYN HERN

They are expected to sign it about 2 or 3 a.m. our time.
CAROLYN HERN

Congressman Tom DeLay has not been convicted of a crime. We will look into whatever we have to, but ...
CAROLYN HERN

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.
CAROLYN HEILBRUN

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, the...
CAROLYN HEILBRUN

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.
CAROLYN HEILBRUN

The journey is over. Love to all.
CAROLYN HEILBRUN

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who hav...
CAROLYN HEILBRUN

The Freudian view that accomplished women are sexually men, or trying to be, has done more, I suspec...
CAROLYN HEILBRUN

They had been putting out posters with a very dark picture of Matt that didn't look much like him. We wanted to send a poster with better pictures.

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They had been putting out posters with a very dark picture of Matt that didn't look much like him. We wanted to send a poster with better pictures.

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