Marian Keyes Quotes

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.

I've been kicked in the teeth more times in tennis than the law ought to allow.

It's hard to deal with defeat.

When you're losing, crap happens.

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it: It sucks to lose sometimes.

I experienced rejection numerous times.

You can't win for losing.

When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it to lots of places. And I thought someone would run my column, I thought it was popular, and no one wanted it.

The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face.

I'm a believer that when one door closes another one opens. But why does the one opening always hit me full-speed-knob-first into my nuts?

Failure honestly can be like the best lesson and it's like the one that like God wants you to really pay attention to. That's why it hurts. The pain will help you remember how not to walk, what directions not to go.

After all, there is nothing but failure.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.

Losing is tough.

There will be days when you feel defeated, exhausted, and plain old beat-up by life's whiplash. People you love will disappoint you - and you will disappoint them. You'll probably struggle with some kind of mortal appetite. Some days it will feel as though the veil between Heaven and Earth is made of reinforced concrete.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

Acting is a life of rejection.

There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.

There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.