C.E. O'Grady Quotes

Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.

I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.

I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.

You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

A vision of Europe fit for the 21st century and a practical plan to deliver strong rights, decent jobs and livelihoods, with strong unions at its heart, is one worth fighting for.

Players from the Dominican Republic have a history of not playing well in cold weather.... The ball hurts their hands when they make contact.

A lot of people have the answers after the results come in.

Until the day I die, I will be pulling for Ned Colletti.

There's a difference in a player that has a job and a player that doesn't have a job.

I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea.

Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.

Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn't stop me being adventurous.

I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.

Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.

Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get jobs.

Try to sell cold callers something and be very insistent. Works well. Also good for door-to-door sales people, especially if they're wearing poor shoes.

Laughter is the hand of God on the shoulder of a troubled world.

Memories are truths we have chosen.

I am not as valuable as the books, I AM the books! They are a part of me I cannot delete or cut off or ignore! I AM CURRENCY! - Nevel Walker

Being a single parent on a part-time basis is tricky to navigate. That is what a racing widow has to do.

[W]hat should I have done? Gather dirt in my purse?

...I've been told that this building is here waiting for me. It's been my Buckingham Palace, my White House, my Taj Mahal, so coming here today as a real member is - well, it's a big deal.

...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

I've always liked Anna, but according to my mother, her family is complete New Money, and my grandmother has pointed out on several occasions that they're not even really Southern.

There is life and there is death, but on the border, where one shades into the other, there is the In Between. "...[M]ost people go through life without even knowing that it's there.

I'm named after my great grand-mother...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

You won't be able to find it out for yourself in any library or archive, either, because my grandmother has carefully and systematically destroyed every shred of evidence.

If not for her truly sparkling personality, she would have been doomed.

[W]hat my grandmother and my mother and I all know is that our beauty is no miracle. It is bought and paid for.

[M]y grandmother...had always complained that our house didn't have a profile that was "significant enough.

...he went off to Paris. Actually, I don't know for sure that Paris is where he ended up.

There you are! Aren't you precious?

She's as common as pig tracks. Just her being here lowers the tone of the entire city.

Magnolia leadership isn't a given. Not forever. You have to earn your spot.

[W]ithout the League, you'd be nothing.

My membership has given me everything I've ever wanted.

...[D]espite the concoction's disgusting lecture, it's cleared every blemish from my face, as promised. I am a Buzzard-created beauty, head to toe.

[A]s if enjoying a last, drawn-out supper, he sips on Alexandria's shadows.

The heartache of your brother and your best friend? I mean, Hayes if it's not your business, then whose business is it?

But what if Alex changes it all around?...Where does that leave you?...But really...what if she's right?

[M]y grandmother and I sit across from each other at the Gryphon Tea Room, on the grandest section of Bull Street.

As a Magnolia, you are always onstage.

I'm sorry. I just meant that all this is new to me. I get lost sometimes." I give her my most honest expression.

The fact is I'm in a serious jam.

You are in training, and therefore your personal taste and opinions are not to be trusted until they are fully and reliably shaped - by me.

...[O]ne of the first things a Magnolia League debutante learns: Keep your thoughts and opinions to yourself.

[D]ear...You just charmed the pants off her with that hunting trip!

As if I were the funniest, weirdest girl in the world - that's how he used to look at me.

Every nerve in my body says to run after Thaddeus and tell him everything. But I know there's no way he can know the truth.

It's been my Buckingham Palace, my White House, my Taj Mahal, so coming here today as a real member is - well, it's a big deal.