210 Quotes by Maria Semple

Can you believe the weather?'...'Actually, I CAN believe the weather. What I can't believe is that I'm actually having a conversation about the weather.

You come out into the world after a season of TV and you're just swearing and saying mean things to people and they're looking at you like, Who are you? And oh yeah, you think, I have to reacclimate to the way people genuinely treat each other.

I loved you all over again.

The sooner you learn it’s on you to make life interesting, the better off you’ll be.

Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick two.

People who don’t get seasick have no idea what it’s like. It’s not just nausea. It’s nausea plus losing the will to live.

Have you ever heard that the brain is a discounting mechanism?

I was surrounded by the surgeons and residents and nurses who helped me stay alive when I was born blue and if it weren’t for them I would be dead now. All those people I didn’t even know, I couldn’t pick them out of a lineup if I had to, but they had worked their whole lives to get the knowledge that ended up saving my life. It was because of them that I was in this magnificent wave of people and music.

But you have a vision. You put a frame around it. You sign your name anyway. That’s the risk. That’s the leap.