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Quotes About Maria

I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
~ Laura Osnes
I think I'd have to say that 'The Shining' is my scariest movie ever.
~ Maria Brink
Do not search now for the answers which cannot be given you because you could not live them. It is a matter of living everything. Live the questions now.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Strange / to wish wishes no longer. / Strange / to see things / that seemed to / belong together / floating in every / direction.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Even when I was writing 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' I started to appreciate Seattle's many charms.
~ Maria Semple
Maria didn't fear the sea but, as taught by her father, she respected its power. In her experience the ocean had no intent to drown travellers.
~ Sara Sheridan, On Starlit Seas
Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential values, the literary values.
~ Maria Teresa Horta
Cuéntase de los Castilla, para comprobar lo ensoberbecidos que vivían de su alcurnia, que cuando rezaban el Avemaría usaban esta frase: Santa María, madre de Dios, parienta y señora nuestra, ruega por nos.
~ Ricardo Palma
No one wants to stumble into gates on moonless nights to trip in holes dug by dogs, but Maria finds more beauty than danger in night.
~ Jeannine Atkins
He said if Maria had truly allowed herself to be overcome by anger—which she never does, because she's a good Anglo-Protestant—then she would have written all over that wall in her native English. He says all Americans are like this: repressed. Which makes them dangerous and potentially deadly when they do blow up. "A savage people," he diagnoses.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The Maria, what I look like in real life and how I am, I'm a super flower child. I wear all flower child '60s dresses.
~ Maria Brink
Praise, my dear one. Let us disappear into praising. Nothing belongs to us.
~ Rilke, Rainer Maria
Pollard took a breath. First Maria Juarez had disappeared, and now her tape had been destroyed, the same tape Maria claimed as her husband's alibi. Pollard found herself smiling, though without any humor. A hot breeze had picked up, but felt good on her face. She liked being on the summit. Pollard
~ Robert Crais
Maria, it sounds like he was insane. Rational people don't intentionally addict people. I feel sorry for those poor people who were unsuspecting victims.
~ Dianne Harman Cornered Coyote
Will Maria be picking us up? Where do you think Maria is right now? How old do you think Maria is?
~ Eoin Colfer
My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.
~ Jose Maria Aznar
I'm not going to give President Bush any advice. He knows. He knows what I think.
~ Jose Maria Aznar
I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his wife, Maria, nee Hermanns.
~ Heinrich Boll
The small tool of death was like a dynamo of life.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I said no more and made off. It is no use quarrelling with excited maternal instincts. They have the moral support of the entire world behind them.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
A line, a short line, stumbles off into the morning. Thirty two men.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I tell you it is the vilest business to use horses in the war.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.
~ Maria Callas