M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“My legs are long but my body is too short.”
“My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.”
“My legs, exhausted, follow me as I walk on the moist pavement; around me, few pedestrians, and above, the full moon—hanging alone like a forgotten ornament.”
Source: URBANIMALITY: Fragments
“My legs have become accustomed to the treadmill. And in L.A., running on the street is asking for a distracted texting driver to knock you over.”
“My legs! Lord Jesus stop the pain in my legs!”
“Hush John,” Florida said. “That’s only phantom pain.”
“Is it real?” I asked her.
She shrugged. “All pain is real.”
Source: A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
“My legs tired, ain't your legs tired!? His legs ain't Tired! He Just... Tinktinktinktinktinktink, TinktinkTinktinkTinktink!! Just paperclips and Sparks everywhere!”
“My lens bridges the gap between human and wild. It allows me to speak nature's language.”
“My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.”
“My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.”
“My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.”
“My lesson on which blooms to pick and how to do so to preserve their scent is followed by lunch on the stone terrace. We eat flatbreads, warm and patchily charred from the griddle, folded over crumbled white cheese, tearing them apart and dipping the smoky bread and salty cheese into bowls of rose-scented jam.”
Source: A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts
“My lessons from my mother’s life are many, but one that stings the most and the one I want to imbue in my heart is to not judge people negatively by how they act, even if they look normal, or have been normal in your past, because you never know what they have to fight inside — something they never chose to have.
The answer to Dustin walking was not willpower. He was not born to walk, and while trying made us better people, more practice wasn’t the answer — compassion was. The answer to the feeling that I was losing my mother slowly over the years was not to try to motivate her into a new perspective to magically fix all the problems — it was love.”
Source: From My Mother
“My lethal weapon is a brain.”
“My letter,” Bella said in Yiddish that was a bit garbled, but perfectly understandable. “I want my letter back and she won’t give it to me. Why doesn’t she understand my English?”
“That’s Yiddish you’re speaking,” Yetta said.
“No, it’s not,” Bella said irritably. “It’s the English I learned in the factory.”
“It’s Yiddish! You must have learned Yiddish because there were so many of us Jews in the factory. Listen”—Yetta switched languages—“English sounds like this.”
Bella stared up at Yetta, her eyes seeming to grow in her pale face. “I don’t even know what Yiddish is,” she said, in Yiddish…..
“Bella learned Yiddish by mistake,” Yetta said. “She thought she was speaking English.”
“Wish I could learn a new language just by mistake,” Jane said. “I’ve been studying Italian for weeks, and it’s totally useless.”
Source: Uprising
“My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!
And yet they seem alive and quivering
Against my tremulous hands which loose the string
And let them drop down on my knee to-night.
This said, -- he wished to have me in his sight
Once, as a friend: this fixed a day in spring
To come and touch my hand ... a simple thing,
Yet I wept for it! -- this, ... the paper's light ...
Said, Dear I love thee; and I sank and quailed
As if God's future thundered on my past.
This said, I am thine -- and so its ink has paled
With lying at my heart that beat too fast.
And this ... O Love, thy words have ill availed
If, what this said, I dared repeat at last!”
Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese
“My level of awkward makes everyone else feel normal”
“My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.”
“My liberal friends are such a bunch soft-headed, politically correct jerks.”
“My liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman.”
“My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that's because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism.”
“My liberty depends on you being free, too.”
“My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, loving individual, my music sometimes didn't reflect that. But now it's different. My music is reflecting the way I feel.”
“My Liberty (The Sonnet)
My liberty is not in luxury,
My liberty is on the blades of grass.
My liberty is not in the palace,
My liberty is in molecules of dust.
My liberty is not in fancy ceremonies,
My liberty is in alleys of the homeless.
My liberty is not in the crown jewels,
My liberty is at the feet of the pathless.
My liberty is not in murals of rigidity,
My liberty is across tradition’s torment.
My liberty is not in the habits of history,
My liberty is in building the present.
My liberty is in the destruction of destiny.
I am liberty incarnate and I write my own reality.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“My librarian instincts kick in. “Well, the fact that his son is reading at all says something,” I say.
Millie looks up from the counter, seemingly startled by my comment.
"When I mean is”—I pause, searching for the right words—“reading only leads to more reading. As a child, I read the gamut—from the classics to the Baby-Sitters Club. If a kid can find a book that she gets excited about, it will only make her more open to experience that feeling again—in all sorts of other stories.”
Source: With Love from London
“My library card. Every hurdle I've faced, I have researched my way over at a library. I'm grateful for that part of the American spirit that believes every citizen should have access to books.”
“My library is an archive of longings.”
Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“My library is filled with UN condemnations.”
“My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.”
Source: Autobiography: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times ...
“My lie has been miserable and difficult, and yet to others and sometimes to myself, it has seemed rich and wonderful. Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.”
Source: Gertrude
“My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.”
Source: Hamlet
“My lies were as hideous as the monster that had inspired them”
Source: The Phantom of the Opera
“My life
has been given its orders: the seasons
seize
the soul and the body, and make mock
of any dispersed effort. The hour of death
is the only trespass”
Source: Selected Writings of Charles Olson
“My life
has appeared unclothed in court,
detail by detail,
death-bone witness by death-bone witness,
and I was shamed at the verdict.”
Source: 45 Mercy Street
“My life - autism's an important part of it, but it bothers me when I see kids where autism and their autism is the only thing they think about. I'd rather have them think about, you know, some art work they were gonna do or some science they wanted to do.”
“My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind”
Source: The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success
“My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you”
“My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.”
“My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in.”
“My life always came first. When I got nominated for Diary of a Mad Housewife, I didn't think, 'Aah, now I'll get more money.' My dream had always just been to do my works well, fall in love and build a life for myself.”
“My life always seems hopeless when it’s been too long since I’ve eaten.”
Source: Ancillary Mercy
“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
“My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.”
Source: Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement
“My life and career is my own adventure.”
“My life and companies improved the second I incorporated, hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis.”
“My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.”
“My life and happiness speaks for itself.”
“My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either.”
Source: Breaking Dawn: Twilight
“My life. And I’m going to run at it with arms outstretched. Anything else would be a waste.”
Source: Love & Gelato
“My life and most people's lives are a series of little miracles -- strange coincidences which spring from uncontrollable impulses and give rise to incomprehensible dreams. We spend a lot of time pretending that we are normal, but underneath the surface each one of us knows that he or she is unique.”
Source: My Week with Marilyn
“My life and my career have been a series of happy and not so happy accidents.”