M Quotes
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“My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever.”
Source: Angels Along the Way: My Life with Help from Above
“My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.”
Source: Common Ground
“My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes.”
“My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread.”
Source: Portrait of Myself
“My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.”
“My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.”
“My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company."
"You are mistaken," said he gently, "that is not good company; that is the best. Good company requires only birth, education, and manners,”
Source: Persuasion
“My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything.”
“My idea of "goodness" had to do with belonging in a small yet reciprocal way to something huge and beautiful beyond my understanding.”
Source: The Big Swim: Coming Ashore in a World Adrift
“My idea of government support was, you supply me with hospitals, schools and the environment to do well and that will do me fine. But do not poke your nose in my business.”
“My idea of growing older is wonderful. However, if I grow old, that's shameful. Older is good, old is bad.”
“My idea of happiness is a rainy evening with a comfortable book to read.”
Source: Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman
“My idea of happiness is effortless happiness. The things that ground you. For me it's art and cooking, for example, and when I can be with my friends and the people I love and do simple things. That's when I'm the happiest.”
“My idea of Heaven has nothing to do with fluffy clouds or angels. In my Heaven there's butter pecan ice cream and swimming pools and baseball games. The Brooklyn Dodgers always win, and I have the best seat in the house, right behind the Dodger's dugout. That's the only advantage that I can see about being dead: You get the best seat in the house.”
“My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.”
Source: Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice
“My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.”
“My idea of heaven is to be hunting with you in some beautiful park with mountains like here at home but where we won’t need guns or prey but we will just walk together arm in arm in this good world and be by ourselves always together forever and a day.”
Source: Narrow Rooms
“My idea of Heaven is what we've got right now, right here!-All this beauty and pleasure and fun and inspiration and spirit and fellowship and joy, all of this and more so and more of it!”
“My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.”
“My idea of Hell is to be young again.”
Source: Braided Lives
“My idea of hiking is a pub crawl”
“My idea of home is not necessarily a place.”
“My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.”
“My idea of life, it's what happens when they're rolling the credits.”
“My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.”
“My idea of making time for myself is writing songs. I never stop beating myself up about trying to be productive, so I don't really like to do a lot of things other than write in my journal and write songs.”
“My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated Edition): Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Master of Ballantrae, St Ives: Adventures of a French Prisoner in England…
“My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.”
“My idea of marriage, as of every other partnership, ... is that each member shall contribute to it his or her personality, unrepressed and uncoerced. Thus, and only thus, we obtain the most complex synthesis possible, which may well surpass in beauty, as it surely does in interest and human value, the separate elements of such an association.”
Source: Inheritance
“My idea of no makeup on actors is really no makeup. I mean, they can be wearing makeup. I don't care what they're wearing as long as it looks like they're not wearing makeup. But an actress will suddenly appear with some lipstick on. And that's makeup. Keener's character wears makeup. Her character would wear makeup. I try to stay true to whoever that person is. I hate that kind of thing where you're waking up in the morning with makeup on in a movie. I just think it pulls you out of the movie.”
“My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal”
“My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.”
“My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about eradicating some of the misery in this world, then it is not worth the name of philosophy. I think Socrates made a very profound statement when he asserted that the raison d'etre of philosophy is to teach us proper living. In this day and age 'proper living' means liberation from the urgent problems of poverty, economic necessity and indoctrination, mental oppression.”
“My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.”
“My idea of quality is my own idea of quality. What I do and what I want to do next is my business. The next thing I fall in love with might be what you think is rubbish.”
“My idea of relaxation is not lying down by a beach. I have to move around, do stuff. Though I'm a massive quiz show person.”
“My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never around assholes. That's the two things to really fight for in life.”
“My idea of romance is a bit different,
it's not steamy hot sex at the back of a car,
my idea of romance is to snuggle up together
on the couch, with pizza and Gilmore Girls.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“My Idea of Romance (Love Sonnet)
My idea of romance is a bit different,
it's not steamy hot sex at the back of a car,
my idea of romance is to snuggle up together
on the couch, with pizza and Gilmore Girls.
Excitement lasts till lust is satisfied,
intimacy transcends excitement in love and life.
Intercourse is a small variable in the love equation,
there is more to love than doing it from behind.
There's a difference between
being horny and being in love,
when you are horny, you want release -
when in love, you don't want to be released.
Intimacy is a life-long journey,
it doesn't end with stripping off clothes -
real intimacy begins when you stand baring your soul.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.”
“My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich August Kekule worked for twenty years trying to figure out the structure of the benzene ring, and he couldn't do it. And then one night he was sleeping and he had a vision of a snake swallowing its tail. So he told his students about it and they said, 'Not bad, you go to sleep and you wake up with that.' And he said, 'Visions come to prepared spirits.' The way Billy Wilder put it was 'The muse has to know where to find you.'”
“My idea of success was to be a boy - possibly because my brothers, Leon and Arthur, were my father's pride and joy, whereas he had to be introduced to me several times before he got it firmly planted in his mind that I was part of the family.”
“My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.”
“My idea of that[idea of career] is constantly changing. I mostly just throw it out to the universe and I can't really do much after that. I've never taken the steps to be "successful": I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house. I've talked to people about it but I've never followed through because it gives me the creeps.”
“My idea of the Christian religion is, that it is an inspiration and its vital consequences--an inspiration and a life--God's life breathed into a man and breathed through a man--the highest inspiration and the highest life of every soul which it inhabits; and, furthermore, that the soul which it inhabits can have no high issue which is not essentially religious.”
Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS
“My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.”
“My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.”