Meg Quotes - Page 2

• You know what Arnold Schwarzenegger and Meg Whitman have in common? They both got in trouble for stiffing the maid.

  Jay Leno

  Maids, Common, Trouble

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• Meg, I give you your faults." "My faults!" Meg cried. "Your faults." "But I'm always trying to get rid of my faults!" "Yes," Mrs. Whatsit said. "However, I think you'll find they'll come in very handy on Camazotz.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Thinking, Always Trying, Giving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.59, Macmillan

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• A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a moment of breathlessness, Meg was able to open herself to the song of the farae, these strange creatures who were Deepened, rooted, yet never seperated from each other, no matter how great the distance. We are the song of the universe. We sing with the angelic host. We are musicians. The farae and the stars are the singers. Our song orders the rhythm of creation.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Song, Stars, Distance

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.253, Macmillan

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• When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay at home and knit, like a poky old woman.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Disappointment, Growing Up

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• ...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Love, Husband, Fighting

  Louisa May Alcott (2001). “Little Women”, p.307, Broadview Press

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• We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want. ~Amy March~

  Louisa May Alcott

  Growing Up, Want, Might

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• Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Wrinkle In Time, Equal

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• I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.

  Jessica Simpson

  Want, Stuff, Comedy

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. March 24, 2005.

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• I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!

  Mindy Kaling

  Hurt, Character, Work Out

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• I'd like to do 'My Best Friend's Wedding,' 'Pretty Woman,' Meg Ryan type stuff. Romantic comedies. I'd love to do some action stuff as well.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Pretty Woman, My Best Friend, Stuff

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• We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Growing Up, Pretending, Grows

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• Meg Cabot is the best author ever

  Meg Cabot

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• Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Hurt, Hair, Nineteen

  Louisa May Alcott (2005). “Little Women ; Little Men ; Jo's Boys”, p.33, Library of America

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• [Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Mother, Wish, Safe

  Louisa May Alcott, General Press (2016). “Little Women (Illustrated Edition)”, p.203, GENERAL PRESS

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• Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Law, Next Day, Secret

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.414, Delphi Classics

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• I love you, Meg. I want to marry you. I want to sleep with you every night, make love with you, have kids. I want to fight together and work together and—just be together. Now are you going to keep standing there, staring at me, or could you put me out of my misery and say you still love me, at least a little?

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Love You, Sleep, Kids

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• John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!

  Louisa May Alcott

  Acting, Likes

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “Little Women”, p.224, Xist Publishing

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• Meg and Belch only had eyes for each other. Not in the usual romantic sense.

  Eoin Colfer

  Eye, Usual

  Eoin Colfer (2012). “The Wish List”, p.146, The O'Brien Press

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• All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me.

  Nora Ephron

  Mail

  "Fictional character: Kathleen Kelly". "You've Got Mail", www.imdb.com. December 18, 1998.

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• He sounds like Jesus. Except rich and sexy.” “Watch it, Meg. In this town joking about Jesus could get you shot. You’ve never seen so many of the faithful who’re armed.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Sexy, Jesus, Faithful

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2011). “Call Me Irresistible: A Novel”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship, but I haven't lost her friendship. We still phone each other for a good chat.

  Russell Crowe

  Friendship, Beautiful, Loss

  "My 15 minutes with Russell Crowe". Interview with Emma Brocke, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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