M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.”
Source: Wit: A Play
“My only deliberate attempt has been to act, to do good work. Thereafter, the medium has been choosing me.”
“My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.”
“My only desire is to be desired. I feel like the whole equation cancels itself out and what it really means is I have no will—I can (at will) rip out all sense of self just so a boy can have one more hole to fuck me in.”
Source: 100 Boyfriends
“My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.”
“My only drive was to be the best dancer in the world, but I never won the world championship.”
“My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.”
Source: Selected poems
“My only ego is in not sacrificing myself until the last breath.”
“My only ego is to demolish demons and my only egoism is to justify justice”
“My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.”
“My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism.”
“My only enemy
is the miles of distance
that's there between us,
my favorite place
is the road that leads
me to you
- the long road home”
Source: ANAMIKA: BEYOND WORDS
“My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.”
“My only experience with dances was what I had seen on TV, but it really wasn’t that far off. The theme appeared to be “Crepe Paper in the Gymnasium,” and they had mastered it perfectly.”
Source: Trylle: The Complete Trilogy
“My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.”
“My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.”
“My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television”
“My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.”
“My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.”
Source: The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle
“My only fear is not fully becoming who God intended me to be, but in God’s name, I shall become all I am meant to be.”
“My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)
“My only fear is the unknown.”
“My only fear lies in Jesus coming back as a thief. I think the second episode will be fun.”
“My only fear of death is reincarnation”
“My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.”
“My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.”
“My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold.”
“My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.”
“My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.”
“My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.”
“My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.”
“My only gift is my heart, my only asset is my brain, my only backup is my backbone.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“My only goal is to look back at the end of each year and see that I have improved.”
“My only goal is to make the crew laugh, basically. It's the only litmus I have to know, is this good or not?”
“My only goal is to make you laugh, not tell you the truth.”
“My only goal is to play 162 games and help this team win. If I can do that, everything will take care of itself.”
“My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me.”
“My only goal is to win the Stanley Cup and do what I have to to win that.”
“My only goal was to make the largest profit possible for my employer. I was caught in a spiral that - with the support of my bosses - continued to lead up and up.”
“My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.”
“My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys.”
Source: Lolita
“My only hesitation after Law & Order was that I didn't want to be in a super dry procedural like that. I found that satisfying, but very tough because every episode was kind of the same. It just is with that show.”
“My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.”
“My only hope is that every other alien civilization isn't doing exactly what we are doing because then everybody would be listening, nobody would be receiving, and we would collectively conclude that there is no other intelligent life in the universe.”
“My only hope lay in my ability to make a metamorphic recovery, to accept in every way the nightmarish order of things so that I could continue to exist as a successful organism even without the protective nonsense of the mind and the imagination, the protective dream of having any kind of soul or self.”
Source: Teatro Grottesco
“My only hope lies in my despair.”
“My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.”
“My only hope was to be polite.”
Source: The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
“My only illness is that sometimes I'm too honest with people.”
“My only inheritance from you was your torment”
Source: Memory at Bay