M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“My No. 1 hobby and interest is being a mom. It's something that makes me passionate, you know?”
“My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Hamlet. Macbeth. King Lear. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Troilus and Cressida. Titus Andronicus. Pericles
“My noisy denunciation trails off in doubt.”
“My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think”
“My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.”
Source: Select Speeches of Kossuth
“My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'”
“My non-concession speech on November 16, 2018, served as a declaration of intent. We have been taught to expect concessions not only to the outcome of an electoral contest but to the system that undergirds it.”
Source: Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
“My non-existence shouldn’t be worth more than your existence.”
Source: The Gods Are Not Dead
“My non-negotiable list remains short. I want a man who loves God, others and me. That’s it. If he loves God, he will be kind and respectful and thoughtful. If he loves others, he will be a servant, generous and loyal. If he loves me, he will have a sense of humor (he’ll have no choice if he’s going to deal with me—after 20 blind dates), be responsible and romantic.”
Source: A Year of Blind Dates: A Single Girl's Search for "The One"
“My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to me, they look at me and just roll their eyes.”
“My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called.”
Source: Volume of prefaces
“My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all "movies" for me. I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.”
“My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.”
Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it.”
Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.”
“My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.”
Source: Collected Works
“My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“My norm for watching scary movies, what I love about it, is when they work and they scare me, which is not that often I'm afraid. The more you know the genre, your taste becomes a little more rarefied and you take a very particular route to the type of movies you like in the genre. But I still get scared.”
“My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.”
“My normal life is like being on holiday.”
“My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.”
“My normal writing day involves three hours of actual writing, before noon, and the rest is just feeding the writing. There is teaching (so I can afford to write), travel to be planned and executed. There are dozens of emails daily, gardening, lots of dishes (where do all these dishes come from?), daily family emergencies, and, of course, the petting of the donkeys. The smell of donkeys is heavenly, and their he-honking is the sweetest music. I feel calm just thinking about them.”
“My nose isn't big. I just happen to have a very small head.”
“My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)
“My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?”
“My nostalgia is for the impossible.”
“My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered enemy that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!”
“My nostrils flared, but a dreadful sound kept me from going any further—a whistle sharp enough to tear through the mists. It came back from the way I’d come, all the way back from the cursed Buck’s Row.
I stopped. My arms fell by my side, the chill settling upon me like a blanket of ice. I knew immediately it was Macnaghten. He’d found something. What else could it be?
I looked back into the fog, into the unknown, and in my heart, I knew the worst awaited me. It was another body. Another victim. Another failure for justice. It had to be. I set off to face it. And the fog closed in around me. ~ Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline, The Ripper Lives, Into the Black (4/10)”
Source: The Ripper Lives: Jack the Ripper Series I - Into the Black
“My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.”
“My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.”
Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
“My notion about any artist is that we honor him best by reading him, by playing his music, by seeing his plays or by looking at his pictures. We don't need to fall all over ourselves with adjectives and epithets. Let's play him more.”
“My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at the head of the table. I think that's a mistake, in obvious opposition to the ideal of teaching which permits a student to be someone other than the teacher. ... The successful teacher has to make each of the students a different product rather than the same.”
“My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.”
“My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.”
Source: D is for Deadbeat
“My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event.”
“My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.”
“My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.”
“My notion of spirituality was different than it is now, but even if I'd been the most fundamentalist of believers, I would have assumed that God had better things to do than arbitrarily smite me with shaking palsy.”
Source: Lucky Man: A Memoir
“My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road; but, after all, one wants to be at rest.”
Source: The life and correspondence of Robert Southey
“My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing I wrote past page 75 made any kind of sense. Nothing. Which would have been fine if the first 75 pages hadn't been pretty damn cool.”
“My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.”
“My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.”
“My novels are all ideas.”
“My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.”
“My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.”
“My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.”
“My novels are never truly finished, even if they're published and sitting on the shelf. While I may no longer be interested in spending time with that particular set of characters, I can't help but think about all the ways the book could be different, the small, insignificant tweaks that no one but me would ever notice.”
“My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.”