Quotes and Sayings about Maine

Maine - you can spit on Canada from here!

You Know You're in Maine:

If you own more than four pair of gloves.
If every other vehicle is a 4X4.
If in March your vehicle is 43% mud.
If you leave your keys in your car and the next morning your car is still there.
If your central heating system is fueled by large logs.
If people drive 100 miles to shop in a real mall.
If more than 1/2 the meat in your freezer is moose.
If the bumper jack in your pickup will lift a house.
If dressing up means wearing a tie with your flannel shirt.
If you don't use your blinker because everyone already knows where you're going.

Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.

Ellen: "It's just gonna be lobster and lobster rolls and clam chowder and mussels."
Georgia: "I'm getting that shellfish is a large part of being in Maine."

The wind was picking up off the ocean now and the whole coastal scene had a bleak, abandoned look, as though Maine in November really belonged to the ragged gulls who wheeled over the sun.

You just called Britney Spears retro, so I have to go cryogenically freeze myself.

I'd do anything to protect my kids like no one ever protected me. Anything.

We're like the penguins. We can't fly, but maybe we can learn to swim.

Life won't throw you parties. You gotta make your own!

Men are visual creatures, so give them something to look at.

Love is a lot of things, Maxine. Safe isn't one of them.

For a woman, life is a battle. And beauty is a goddamn machine gun.

Power is knowing that you can do whatever you want, and not one person can stop you.

When someone isn’t seen for what they truly are, that’s a very dangerous thing.

Okay, listen. I got something wrong with me. That’s the first thing to know. I twitch and shout a lot. It makes me look like a damn freak show. But inside my head is an even bigger mess. I can’t stop twisting things around, words and sounds especially. I have to keep playing with them until they come out right.

He’s the one who taught me how to use my head, turn it into a strength. He gave me a place in this crappy world, until I screwed up.

Someday I'd change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut?

Canada also helped in two world wars and gave the world Neil Young, William Shatner, Leonard Cohen, Pamela Anderson, one quarter of Barney Stinson, instant mashed potatoes and best of all - you.

Look, if Michael Jordan's healthy, you don't let Scottie Pippen run the offense. Oh, you're from Canada, right. If Wayne Gretzky's healthy, you don't let François... what I'm saying is: hockey is stupid and I'm point guy!

Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype.

The fact is Canadians understand that immigration, that people fleeing for their lives, that people wanting to build a better life for themselves and their kids is what created Canada, it's what created North America.

Canada is a sweet country. It is like your retarded cousin you see at Thanksgiving and sort of pat him on the head. You know, he's nice, but you don't take him seriously. That is Canada.

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

Marcus: "My bike. It's gone. She took it."
Max: "So that's like Grand Theft Auto. Or Grand Theft Bike."

Ellen: "Ten minutes, or I'm taking away your phone."
Marcus: "Good. We're wasting our lives chained to these screens for our dopamine hits. Does it actually make us more fulfilled? No."
Max: "If I could have my phone surgically embedded into my hand, I would."

We celebrate a holiday that praises our success at genocide. It's a white celebration of colonization. That's not sadistic enough. We package it up with the image of a happy, smiling turkey. The emblem of the holiday is the animal that we slaughter en masse.

Max: "Welcome back, b*tches!"
Ellen: "Maxine, don't call Nanna and Pappy b*tches."

Georgia: "I'm worried about you, Peach."
Ginny: "Is that why your wrinkles are so pronounced?"

You can't be deep without a surface.

'I want what we all want,' said Carl. 'To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.'

Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s a whole world going on around me, I’m aware of that. It’s not because I don’t want to look at you, Lucinda. It’s that I don’t want to be seen.

To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

How strange it began to seem that cars have bodies that never are supposed to touch, a disaster if they do.

What do you care? You go through men faster than Taylor Swift.

Love. It's up. It's down. It's easy. It's hard. It's a motherf-...

It's the worst betrayal since Jordyn and Kylie!

Abby: "I didn't want you to get hurt."
Max: "That's funny. That's what everyone who keeps hurting me keeps saying!"

Ellen: "I quit being a mom. The hours are long, and the pay sucks."
Georgia: "No kidding! Austin still hasn't said a single word to me."
Ellen: "Oh, not mine. Mine talk. They won't shut up."

Halloween is a chance for everybody to one-up themselves.

Because you can't choose who you love. Your person is your person, and that is undeniable.

Through the lens is how the world makes sense to me.

Max: "Fall in a ditch!"
Marcus: "Well, I already did that."