We feel pretty well, we just need to keep strong nerves. We had a hard beginning. I don't know why. ...
MAUREEN BRUNT They're still a very good team. They've beaten us before, so I wouldn't count them out.
MAUREEN BRUNT It was the best night of my life so far.
MAUREEN BRUNT We've kind of made curling our dream. If other people like it, it validates the fact that we've put ...
MAUREEN BRUNT I can't think of anything else I'd want to have on my body for the rest of my life.
MAUREEN BRUNT You can't really insult us anymore. It is an Olympic sport.
MAUREEN BRUNT It gets to you after a while. But we're going to the Olympics.
MAUREEN BRUNT The main influence on voters should be a series of robust debates among the candidates. It's a f...
DOUGLAS BRUNT 'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portra...
DOUGLAS BRUNT A comparison of the average professional baseball salary to the national average salary over the las...
DOUGLAS BRUNT I've seen terrorism close up, but I don't live in a state of terror at all. I'm comforta...
DOUGLAS BRUNT A tennis racket lurks in my earliest memories like a sick relative who had come to live with us. Whe...
DOUGLAS BRUNT It's much easier to get disgusted when you've already banked 20 million bucks.
DOUGLAS BRUNT New York is big, fast, energetic, and has the most and best of everything. While it can push the sen...
DOUGLAS BRUNT I've thought about bringing my children to retrace my own steps of the morning of September 11, ...
DOUGLAS BRUNT Wall Street has played a role in everyone's life, and it has been vilified by everyone, but I th...
DOUGLAS BRUNT I'm really troubled by the prevalence of single-sport specializations. I want my kids to do as m...
DOUGLAS BRUNT I did interviews with tennis greats, like James Blake and John Isner. I also interviewed tennis pros...
DOUGLAS BRUNT It's common knowledge that professional athletes earn extraordinary incomes. What is less known ...
DOUGLAS BRUNT Dad met Mom in 1983 during the lead-up to the 1984 games. She was an Olympic downhill skier. In thos...
DOUGLAS BRUNT With tennis, if you're very good at a young age, you don't even go to your prom. You're ...
DOUGLAS BRUNT On Wall Street, every story becomes known so quickly. They are all so connected that everything diss...
DOUGLAS BRUNT Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional.
DOUGLAS BRUNT A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to cur...
DOUGLAS BRUNT If there is going to be any meaningful sales, it's going to be through word of mouth and people ...
DOUGLAS BRUNT New York can get on top of you if you don't have much money, but if you have money, it's kin...
DOUGLAS BRUNT Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will fee...
DOUGLAS BRUNT Adverbs lead to overwriting. Try taking them out and reading your prose again to see how it sounds. ...
DOUGLAS BRUNT Don't write more than 3 hours at a time. I write three hours in the morning, 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. Ot...
DOUGLAS BRUNT Your spouse, a sibling, a friend need to read your drafts. They have to be people unafraid to tell y...
DOUGLAS BRUNT Dad was a retired hedge fund manager who made enough millions to retire and focus on my game. Before...
DOUGLAS BRUNT Don't copy another writer's style, because that is not authentic, and that's how it will...
DOUGLAS BRUNT I like to write in the mornings, so I try to protect 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. for me. I can drop our older t...
DOUGLAS BRUNT I prefer a change of surroundings anyway, and I like to be around some energy and white noise, so I ...
DOUGLAS BRUNT The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gol...
DOUGLAS BRUNT If you look at top players - Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi - so many had a parent who was domineering to...
DOUGLAS BRUNT That's the secret. If you always make sure you're exactly the person you hoped to be, if you always ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Pro...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Because maybe I don't want to leave the planet invisible. Maybe I need at least one person to rememb...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Don’t you see? It’s like we’ve known each other all these years. Without even seeing each othe...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Toby was right. Finn was my first love. But Toby, he was my second. And the sadness in that stretche...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT I really wondered why people were always doing what they didn't like doing. It seemed like life was ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Hayır, hayır. Yalnızca dünyanın en mutsuz insanları sonsuza dek yaşamak ister, çünkü hayat...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Please promise to take the very best care of my only girl. With so much love my heart might split in...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Watching people is a good hobby, but you have to be careful about it. You can’t let people catch y...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT There was a flicker of something in Greta's look. I couldn't tell whether it was a flicker of love o...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT I came to a sketch where the space between my arm and Greta’s arm, the shape of the place between ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT That's the difference between you and Greta. She has better things to do. She gets involved in clubs...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.

I fidgeted around with th...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT The bed was warm and ordinary and perfect, and it had been such a long, long day. Probably the longe...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT I don’t like to overhear things, because, in my experience, things your parents are keeping quiet ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT I thought it was good to test yourself sometimes. It was good to see how much you could take.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT You think I don't know about wrong love, June? You think I don't understand embarrassing love?
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT …there’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT She was wired into my heart. Twisted and kinked and threaded right through.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT There are dark black buttons tattooed on my heart. I’ll carry them for the rest of my days.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Sometimes it feels good to take the long way home.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT But maybe I am. Maybe that’s exactly what I am. Maybe all I wanted was for Toby to hear the wolves...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT You could try to believe what you wanted, but it never worked. Your brain and your heart decided wha...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just t...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT If my life was a film, I’d have walked out by now.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying....
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best plac...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT I want to imagine wrinkled time, and forests thick with wolves, and bleak midnight moors
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT I didn’t know how to seal a promise with a dead person.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT There was something so lonely about that moment, everyone around me completely involved in this thin...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT There was at least some small beauty in what we’d done.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Then we left, just me running with my sister, the wolves at our backs.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT As the elevator door started to close, she stood and put up one hand to wave goodbye. That’s one o...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT I like the word clandestine. It feels medieval. Sometimes I think of words as being alive. If clande...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT The kinds of things I want don't cost money.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT I thought how that was wrong and terrible and beautiful all at the same time.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Once you know a thing you can’t ever unknow it.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT You can build a whole world around the tiniest of touches.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never t...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT 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 This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way...
MAUREEN JOHNSON 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 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 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 I followed your footsteps," he said, in answer to the unspoken question. "Snow makes it easy."
...
MAUREEN JOHNSON 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 When she emerged, Keith was watching the tiny round window of the under-the-counter washing machine....
MAUREEN JOHNSON 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 I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very differe...
MAUREEN JOHNSON 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 Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones...
MAUREEN JOHNSON 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 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 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 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 Rise and shine, porcupines!
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 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 Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I s...
MAUREEN JOHNSON These initiatives Sen. Harkin fought to include in the farm bill as chairman, however, remain under ...
MAUREEN KNIGHTLY Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.
MAUREEN JOHNSON