M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.”
Source: Dept. of Speculation
“My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.”
“My plan, when I walked out on to the field on Friday morning, was to just enjoy myself because when I'm smiling and having fun I generally bowl my best.”
“My plane of mind created tricks that only metal brains can read and laugh.”
Source: BEFORE INC.WE935.I57.N211
“My Planet, My Duty
(Sonnet 2526)
My sonnets, my rules -
my science, my rules -
my theology, my rules -
my universe, my rules;
my dream, my right -
my failure, my fuel -
my life, my ethics -
my body, my choice;
my divinity, my design -
my truth, my decision -
my society, my justice -
my planet, my duty.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“My plans are, at best, vague and show little promise of becoming more definite for quite some time. Maybe I am making the greatest mistake of my life – I don’t know, but at least I must try.”
“My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.”
“My plans are perfect, and when I start to carry them out, may God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall have none.”
“My plans are still in embryo, a town on the edge of wishful thinking.”
“My plans didn't include spending my life enslaved as someone's secretary”
“My plans for the future are to serve more and better, to worry less about the things that are unimportant, to let my wife and children know how much I love them, to openly support whatever I can see is good, to appreciate and to encourage everyone in the best way possible, and, in short, to do more of what makes life meaningful.”
Source: Tree Farm Days
“My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies”
“My plans often went awry. Much like my thoughts. Hold the phones. Maybe SATAN had A.D.D. too. It would explain a lot.”
Source: Fifth Grave Past the Light
“My plans often went awry. Much like my thoughts. Hold the phones. Maybe Saan had ADD, too. It would explain a lot.”
“My plant is probably dead." Camryn looks slightly surprised. "You have a plant?" I smile. "Yeah, her name's Georgia.”
“My plants have started growing brains, too.
They ask me questions I don’t know the answers to.
Maybe it is time for them to attend school.
And get used to the existence and dimensions of time.”
“My plastic surgeon ... said my face looked like a bouquet of elbows.”
“My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.”
“My platform might be a little bigger than someone else's, but everyone has a purpose. For me, that purpose in my life right now is soccer. There's a cool, personal testimony that goes along with it.”
“My platform's called Don't Even Think About It. I go to schools and I say, 'Whatever bad thing it is you're thinking of doing, don't even think about it. 'Cause I can see into your soul, and I will hide in your closet and come for you in the night, and the last sound you ever hear will be my sharp teeth popping through the flesh of my gums, ready to eat you.' Their eyes get all big. It's awesome. I love little kids, man. They're the cutest”
“My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if I can speak firsthand about the Spanish flu, the advent of the automobile, world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik — that's all ancient history now. But what else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter. I'm not ready to be old yet.”
“My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.”
“My players on defense must have a hand-up on every shot. If not, they run sprints.”
“My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.”
“My playing had called to another human being at last. Surely, she could be no other than my own true love. Slowly, I got to my feet. Speak to me, I thought. And as if she'd heard me, the young woman's lips parted and she spoke thus: Have you lost your mind?”
Source: Kissed: Belle; Sunlight and Shadow; Winter's Child
“My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects.”
“My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since I had never really played music to that extent. It was never meant as something I would consider as anything more than having fun with my friends. But I think I would enjoy writing music for the movies that I'm working on.”
“My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.”
“My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught.”
“My plays are always involved with society, but I'm writing about people, too, and it's clear over the years that audiences understand them and care about them. The political landscape changes, the issues change, but the people are still there. People don't really change that much.”
“My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.”
“My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, theres a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.”
“My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language”
“My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.”
“My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.”
“My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.”
“My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.”
“My plea is that as we continue our search for truth, particularly we of the Church, that we look for strength and goodness rather than weakness and failings in those who did so great a work in their time. We recognize that our forefathers were human. They doubtless made mistakes. Some of them acknowledged making mistakes. But the mistakes were minor when compared with the marvelous work which they accomplished.”
“My plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight...I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.”
Source: Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
“My plea therefore is this: Let us get our instruments tightly strung and our melodies sweetly sung. Let us not die with our music still in us. Let us rather use this precious mortal probation to move confidently and gloriously upward toward the eternal life which God our Father gives to those who keep his commandments.”
“My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain is a living mechanism, not a machine. In case of breakdown, it can substitute one of its parts for the function of another. But it has its limitations. It is subject to inexorable change with the passage of time.”
Source: Speech and Brain Mechanisms
“My plea to the Body of Christ is while we must do all we can to meet the needs of the suffering and dying millions, we must not see these activities as a substitute for evangelism and establishing churches among the unreached.”
Source: Come, Let's Reach the World: Partnership in Church Planting Among the Most Unreached
“My plea...is a plea to save the children. Too many of them walk with pain and fear, in loneliness and despair. Children need sunlight...They need kindness and refreshment and affection. Every home, regardless of the cost of the house, can provide an environment of love which will be an environment of salvation.”
“my pleasure
was in the strength of my back,
in my noble shoulders, the cool
smooth flesh cylinders of my arms.”
Source: The Sorrow Dance: Poems
“My pleasure in reading is not necessarily the witnessing of something new, but of something familiar which I haven't seen described.”
“My Pleasure is my business”
“My pleasure was to copy, not to create.”
“My pledge to myself is I will believe in my music, always. I stand behind everything I do. If I don't think it's amazing, how the hell is anyone else going to think it's amazing? But that's just me.”
“My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness.”
Source: Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea
“My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal.”