Max Quotes - Page 3

• Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.

  Andrew Vachss

  Fiction, Facts, Fact And Fiction

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• I'm an office manager for Office Max. I have two daughters. I'm married. I have a normal Job.

  Suzanne Crough

  Daughter, Jobs, Two

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• Well, I couldn't spell my name until I was eight - my second name. I was so dyslexic. Max I could do. Irons, nope.

  Max Irons

  Eight, Names, Iron

  "Max Irons Assumes His Throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• What are you doing here?” [ndr prison] Selling Girl Scout cookies,” I said. “Want some? The Samoas are terrific.” (Max II to Max)

  James Patterson

  Girl, Cookies, Want

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• Trying to change the world is like trying to straighten the curly tail of a dog. Try as you might, it will still go hack to its natural curl. Your hands will become stronger from the exercise of trying to straighten the curly tail. Although you max' not he able to change the world, you would have acquired more spiritual strength within - and that alone will make a difference in the world.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Dog, Exercise

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was Max, too. Big Max.

  Max Walker

  Son, Names, Empires

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

  Mel Brooks

  Book, Character, Stories

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• One story I've been trying to write for years, and haven't been able to finish, is about a face I saw, just a glimpse of a face, in a max security prison in North Carolina. I'm still trying to understand what I saw in that guy's face.

  Peter Orner

  Writing, Years, Guy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What test?" Asked Nudge. "Max, you're incorruptible." "Only by power." I said. "You haven't tried chocolate yet.

  James Patterson

  Chocolate, Tests, Nudge

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• Fang (sarcasticaly): Go pick out a tree and I'll carve our initials in it. Max: (screams and goes in the bathroom)

  James Patterson

  Tree, Bathroom, Scream

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• There's not much left inside me, Max" Sometimes, all she heard were echoes.

  Nalini Singh

  Echoes, Sometimes, Heard

  Nalini Singh (2010). “Bonds of Justice”, p.60, Penguin

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• Max: What's a period? George: It's a bullet we dodge, go get ready.

  George Lopez

  Funny, Humor, Bullets

  TV series "George Lopez" ("Prototype"), 2002-2007.

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• I've got pages and pages of snippets of stuff, and if Max [Hershenow] sends me a track to write to I'll go through all the stuff and the initial reaction of gut and how it makes me feel and I'll sort of go from there and start pulling my favourite pieces of my lyrics and that will be a very literal word collage and from there I'll sculpt it for and whatever reason the song sort of presents itself. It's a bizarre process.

  Lizzy Plapinger

  Song, Writing, Track

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• I went up to his [Hank Jones'] house and there were four guys there: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. Not a bad place to be. Scared shitless, but a nice place to be on my second day in New York.

  Ray Brown

  New York, Nice, House

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• The British Union of Fascists, Oswald Mosley`s group, the black shirts, they were banned in Britain in 1940. And Max Mosley`s dad, Sir Oswald Mosley, ended up spending three years in World War II, 1940 to 1943, interned in the U.K. as basically an enemy of the state. He spent that time in prison, as did Max Mosley`s mother.

  Rachel Maddow

  Mother, Dad, War

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• My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice.

  Max Walker

  Motivation, Father, Years

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• Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Classic, Comic, Elixir

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• I'm especially baffled by the idea of taking insurance against a U.S. default. If America defaults, we're talking about a chaotic world - Mad Max, more or less - in which case, who imagines that insurance claims will be honored?

  Paul Krugman

  Talking, Ideas, America

  "Ask the Author Live: Larissa MacFarquhar with Paul Krugman". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2010.

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• There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

  Max Beerbohm

  Life, Failure, Fall

  "The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm".

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• If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.

  H. G. Wells

  Keys, Long, Heaven

  In A. J. P. Taylor 'Beaverbrook' (1972) ch. 8

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• Dead Max was the biggest oxymoron in history.

  James Patterson

  Oxymoron

  James Patterson (2012). “Maximum Ride: Nevermore”, p.90, Random House

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• Man, I'm messed up right now. My best friend is my father? The man I idolized as a kid... whose tattoo is on my arm... And he's younger than me. Yeah, I don't think I can handle this. Mindwipe me, somebody... please! Where's that dragon from Sanctuary? Simi, go get Max. I need him.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Tattoo, Father, Kids

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• If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl,' I'm going to kill you." "Who's Magnus?" Max inquired. "He's a warlock," said Alec. "A sexy, sexy warlock," Isabelle told Max, ignoring Alec's look of total fury. "But warlocks are bad," protested Max, looking baffled. "Exactly," said Isabelle.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sexy, Thinking, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.764, Simon and Schuster

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• I suspect people are going to vote for Max Burns because they know him as local boy who's got - share their values.

  George W. Bush

  Boys, People, Vote

  "President Bush Discusses Midterms; War on Terror Strategy With Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. October 30, 2006.

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• Max - you have a bigger mission than finding the flock's parents. Focus on helping the whole world, not just your friends. I held my wings steady, coasting for a long, long way on a warm updraft. It was like floating on a cloud, the best feeling you can imagine. I wish you could try it with me. Maybe next time. You know, Voice, I thought finally, my friends are my world.

  James Patterson

  Wings, Voice, Clouds

  "The Angel Experiment: A Maximum Ride Novel (Book 1)". Book by James Patterson, April 11, 2005.

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