Best Madeleines Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is an inspiration to girls throughout Vermont and the country in allowing them to know that the opportunities they have are unlimited.”

Knows Years Firsts Country States Inspiration Girl Opportunity Given Becoming Female Allowing Governors Unlimited Vermont Madeleines Years Of Service

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.”

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Author:Tom Shadyac

“On the show, I do a very serious thing. And a lot of people have a hard time reconciling that with what I'm going to do after the show. They can't get it into their heads: "How can he be talking to Madeleine Albright one minute and then somebody half his age...." They're just jealous. But I never made any bones about it. I am a player. Always have been.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“I picked out my Halloween costume. I’m going as 'Slutty Madeleine Albright.'”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella its fast, all-out comedies, such as the Shopaholic series.”

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Author:Sophie Kinsella

“In 1998, I was screening 'Good Will Hunting' at Camp David. And I was saying, 'Nice to meet you, Mr. President. Nice to meet you, Mrs. Clinton.' Madeleine Albright, Sandy Berger, Senator Daschle. It was an extraordinary day.”

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Author:Lawrence Bender

“I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in Camp David in 1998 - Madeleine Albright and the Clintons were there, and I just became really inspired by all of these amazing people. I left the screening asking myself what I could do.”

People Moments Light Left Asking Clinton Inspired Camps Hunting Good Will Screening Bulbs Light Bulb Amazing People Madeleines Will Hunting

Author:Lawrence Bender

“Joschka Fischer was a Green Party politician and Germany's foreign minister. We hired Mr. Fischer, as well as former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, as advisors because we, as an automaker, want to know, for example, how new emissions laws will develop in the United States, Europe and Asia. Fischer and Ms. Albright have diverse contacts worldwide. They can call our attention to trends early on, information from which we can benefit.”

“We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.”

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Author:Dan Brown

“The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.”

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Author:Karen Russell

“By itself, an ordinary snapshot is no less banal than the petite madeleine in Proust's In Search of Lost Time... but as goad to memory, it is often the first integer in a sequence of recollections that has the power to deny time for the sake of love.”

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Author:Michael Lesy

“I think excessive rationality can be very dangerous. Certainly the kind of rationality we've seen in the last hundred years, and still see on a daily basis when Madeleine Albright says that it's all right, we have to live with the idea of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children dying because it contains Saddam Hussein.”

Thinking Years Kind Children Stills Ideas Lasts Dying Dangerous Hundred Bases Rationality Saddam Hussein Madeleines Children Dying

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“Lucy Lawless presented a couple of the awards. And, when I walked off the stage with her after one of them, she said "Oh, I want to introduce you to my friend Madeleine," and that's how I met Madeleine. I realize that's a ridiculous story.”

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Author:Ladyhawke

“I have a company where I'm trying to get projects off the ground. Me and my partner Madeleine Sackler, we just shot our first feature in a maximum security prison where about 95% of the cast were incarcerated men. We're editing that and there's a doc going with it.”

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Author:Boyd Holbrook

“Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.”

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Author:Hilary Mantel

“I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady." Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.”

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Book:Touching Darkness: Number 2 in series

Source: Touching Darkness: Number 2 in series

“Let tears gather in your eyes. You haven’t tears enough for what you’ve done to me. Six more mortal years, seven, eight…I might have had that shape!’ Her pointed finger flew at Madeleine, whose hands had risen to her face, whose eyes were clouded over. Her moan was almost Claudia’s name. But Claudia did not hear her. ‘Yes, that shape, I might have known what it was to walk at your side.”

Years Done Enough Hands Might Eye Faces Names Sides Walks Known Havens Tears Shapes Six Fingers Seven Eight Mortals Flew Risen Your Side Clouded Claudia Madeleines

Book:Interview with the Vampire: A Novel

Source: Interview with the Vampire: A Novel

“That's right," he said. "I created a a bunch of Forsaken Warriors, had them attack the Institute and kill Madeleine and nearly kill the rest of us, just so that I could keep Clary from at home. And lo and behold, my diabolical plan is working.”

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Book:City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.”

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Book:The Marriage Plot: A Novel

Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel

“But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.”

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Book:The Marriage Plot: A Novel

Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel

“The more she thought about it, the more Madeleine understood that extreme solitude didn't just describe the way she was feeling about Leonard. It explained how she'd always felt when she was in love. It explained what love was like and, just maybe, what was wrong with it.”

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Book:The Marriage Plot: A Novel

Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel

“Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century.”

Want Has Beens Courses Next Half Century Letters Instance Could Have Been Love Letter Madeleines

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole life ahead of her--a life in which, if she persevered, she might do something special--and that part of persevering meant getting past moments just like this one, when people made you feel small, unlovable, and took away your confidence.”

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Book:The Marriage Plot: A Novel

Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel

“Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men.”

“Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.”

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Author:Bert Greene

“I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the second. It is time to stop; the potion is losing its magic.”

Giving Firsts Magic Losing Thirds Give Me Drank Drunkenness Madeleines

Book:Remembrance of Things Past

Source: Remembrance of Things Past

“I saw Madeleine Stowe from Revenge recently, and she totally blew me away. And growing up I loved Morticia Addams and Lily Munster on one hand, and Jeannie from I Dream of Jeannie on the other. Two completely different ends of the spectrum, kind of like me.”

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Author:Sarah Shahi

“No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.”

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Book:Swann's Way

Source: Swann's Way

“The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...”

Mind Littles Sight Madeleines

Book:Swann's Way

Source: Swann's Way

“There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.”

Thinking Kind Persons Sometimes Going Away Madeleines

Author:Madeleine Albright

“Madeleine Albright, when you see her, she's not a beautiful woman and she's getting older. But you're saying that woman has gravitas. She knows what she's talking about.”

Knows Beautiful Talking Getting Old Getting Older Beautiful Women Madeleines Gravitas

Author:Joy Behar