M Quotes
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“My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana.”
“My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to.”
“My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.”
“My occupational diseases require me to shut down your biologically toxic workplaces.”
“My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around.”
“My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.”
“My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together.”
“My off-the-cuff remarks at the University of Virginia were with regard to global macro traders, who are on-call 24/7 and of whom there are likely only a few thousand successful practitioners in the world today. Macro trading requires a high degree of skill, focus and repetition. Life events, such as birth, divorce, death of a loved one and other emotional highs and lows are obstacles to success in this specific field of finance.”
“My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions.”
“My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state”
“My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah, I guess I'm a little bit obsessed.”
“My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.”
Source: The Life You Imagine: Life Lessons for Achieving Your Dreams
“My office is in a building in midtown Chicago. It's an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since there was that problem with the elevator last year. I don't care what anyone says, that wasn't my fault. when a giant scorpion the size of an Irish wolfhound is tearing its way through the roof of your elevator car, you get real willing to take desperate measures.”
Source: Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files
“My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.”
“My office is right here." He inclined his head to the false front building. "It was once Miss Ruby's boardinghouse."
"Boardinghouse or bordello?" she asked.
"Probably one and the same." He grinned. "Half the reason I signed the lease was that I liked the irony of practicing law in a former bawdy house.”
Source: Slow Hand
“My office is trashed,” he grumped as he squished across his damp carpet and took the coffee that I was holding out to him. “Why are you smiling? My fish are dead.”
“My office requires an oven.”
“My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.”
“My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.”
Source: Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences
“My official cruise ship band name is now A Band On Ship.”
“My oh my, think of what you're going to be like when you have your completely Heavenly body that can do all the things you can do now and more, including flying and floating and appearing and disappearing and walking through walls and locked doors and having marvelous supernatural miraculous powers of defense and judgement upon your enemies, protection for your friends, and to be able to help the poor humans that are still living on Earth during the Millennium to learn more about the Lord and love Him and serve Him even as you do.”
“My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.”
“My old coach used to say two points was two points.”
“My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first".”
“My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.”
“My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.”
“My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The string came off!”
“My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.”
Source: Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer
“My old friend, what are you looking for?
After years abroad you’ve come back
with images you’ve nourished
under foreign skies
far from you own country.’
‘I’m looking for my old garden;
the trees come to my waist
and the hills resemble terraces
yet as a child
I used to play on the grass
under great shadows
and I would run for hours
breathless over the slopes.’
‘My old friend, rest,
you’ll get used to it little by little;
together we will climb
the paths you once knew,
we will sit together
under the plane trees’ dome.
They’ll come back to you little by little,
your garden and your slopes.’
‘I’m looking for my old house,
the tall windows
darkened by ivy;
I’m looking for the ancient column
known to sailors.
How can I get into this coop?
The roof comes to my shoulders
and however far I look
I see men on their knees
as though saying their prayers.’
‘My old friend, don’t you hear me?
You’ll get used to it little by little.
Your house is the one you see
and soon friends and relatives
will come knocking at the door
to welcome you back tenderly.’
‘Why is your voice so distant?
Raise your head a little
so that I understand you.
As you speak you grow
gradually smaller
as though you’re sinking into the ground.’
‘My old friend, stop a moment and think:
you’ll get used to it little by little.
Your nostalgia has created
a non-existent country, with laws
alien to earth and man.’
‘Now I can’t hear a sound.
My last friend has sunk.
Strange how from time to time
they level everything down.
Here a thousand scythe-bearing chariots go past
and mow everything down”
“My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.”
Source: Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir
“My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five
“My old granny goat used to say, “Two cans a day keep the monsters away.” Lots of minerals, very filling, and the texture is wonderful. Really, what’s not to like? I can’t help it if human teeth aren’t built for heavy-duty dining”
Source: The Demigod Files
“My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.”
“My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.”
Source: The Door Into Summer
“My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.”
“My old man is a man of few words.”
“My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.”
“My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.”
Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
“My old man's a white old man
And my old mother's black.
If ever I cursed my white old man
I take my curses back.
If ever I cursed my black old mother
And wished she were in hell,
I'm sorry for that evil wish
And now i wish her well
My old man died in a fine big house
My Ma died in a shack.
I wonder were i'm going to die,
Being neither white nor black?”
“My old man said, `Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!'
But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied,
Lost the van and don't know where to roam.”
“My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.”
“My old man taught me to never trust anything that bleeds for three days and doesn't die.”
“My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'”
Source: Moon Is Harsh Mistres
“My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.”
“My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.”
“My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.”
“My old mind hadn’t been capable of holding this much love. My old heart had not been strong enough to bear it. Maybe this was the part of me that I’d brought forward to be intensified in my new life. Like Carlisle’s compassion and Esme’s devotion. I would probably never be able to do anything interesting or special like Edward, Alice, and Jasper could do. Maybe I would just love Edward more than anyone in the history of the world had ever loved anyone else. I could live with that.”
“My old mom told me, 'Robert, you can't go to heaven if you hate anybody.' We practice that. There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much.”
“My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.”