M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“My step-dad started playing hockey in Detroit so we moved and I had to start home school. I started watching movies since I had a bunch of free time and then I was like, 'You know what? I want to give this a shot, move back to L.A., and audition.' The first show I booked was a show called Threshold with Carla Gugino and it was obviously a terrifying experience and I felt out of my comfort zone, but it made me want to keep going because it was fun.”
“My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.”
“My stepdad always said, "If you're going to believe the good, you're going to believe the bad." I think that's really important.”
“My stepdad is Bruce Jenner, the Olympian. The first time he came over was like a blind date, and we had show and tell. He took out the gold medal for me and my sisters, and we were like, 'So? Who the hell are you?'”
“My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.”
“My stepfather and my mother, I love them to death.”
“My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.”
“My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.”
“My stepfather, John O'Hara, was the goodest man there was. He was not a man of many words, but of carefully chosen ones. He was the one parent who didn't try to fix me. One night I sat on his lap in his chair by the woodstove, sobbing. He just held me quietly and then asked only, "What does it feel like?" It was the first time I was prompted to articulate it. I thought about it, then said, "I feel homesick." That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.”
Source: The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
“My stepfather stepped in where no man would've stepped in - six kids, five of them boys - and that's heroic.”
“My stepfather used to be a clown in The Shrine Circus. He took me backstage when I was 23. I saw three elephants chained to the cement floor in the warehouse of the Michigan State Fairgrounds. Sadness, hopelessness and fear were emanating from their eyes, from their bodies. They were swaying neurotically from side to side. A monkey was screaming in his cage, grabbing the bars of his prison. Two tigers were pacing feverishly in their tiny cages. Cruelty was staring me in the face. I knew something was wrong. If you pay attention to energy, you can tell when a fellow being is in peril.”
“My stepfather used to run hotels all around the world.”
“My stepfather was a producer. I'd always wanted to be in show business. And so when he came into my life and he told my brothers and myself, he said, look, if you want to be in this business, you're all going to have to start at the bottom.”
“My stepfather was a very nasty individual.”
“My stepfather, John O'Hara, was the goodest man there was. He was not a man of many words, but of carefully chosen ones. He was the one parent who didn't try to fix me. One night I sat on his lap in his chair by the wood stove, sobbing. He just held me quietly and then asked only, "What does it feel like?" It was the first time I was prompted to articulate it. I thought about it, then said, "I feel homesick." That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.”
“My Stephen King for his Ayn Rand. My Terry Goodkind for his T.S. Elliot. Not a bang but a whimper.”
Source: After Spring Comes
“My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.”
“My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.”
Source: The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams
“My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?”
“My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.”
“My stillness spoke to me and I realized
that in order to progress, I had to surrender to
my discomfort and move toward my fears. When
you embrace the shadows within yourself, you
strengthen your own light.”
Source: The New Southern Style: The Interiors of a Lifestyle and Design Movement
“My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or plastic?”
“My stomach churned. The monster had mimicked Thalia perfectly. If I'd heard that voice in the dark, calling for help, I would've run straight toward it.”
“My stomach does a little flip thing that I'm realy ging yo have to get used to, since it seems to be a side effect of seeing him.”
Source: Everything, Everything
“My stomach flipped. I stopped. This guy was trending in my mind big time.”
Source: Roxy Ray
“My stomach gave a violent start and turned into a hunk of ice. The world was spinning around me, and blobs of faces and visions of things past were dancing in the red mist that covered the lot. It swirled into a mass of colors and I felt myself swaying on my feet. Someone cried, "Glory, look at the kid!"
And the ground rushed up to meet me very suddenly.”
Source: 追逐金色的少年 [Zhui zhu jin se de shao nian] / The Outsiders
“My stomach gets that hollowed-out feeling. It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart.”
“My stomach growls as I think about the beignets I ate that day, those magical deep-fried pillows of dough, covered in half an inch of powdered sugar. The exterior was crisp and golden, and when I took a bite--- the airy, cloud-like interior still warm from the deep fryer--- the powdered sugar fell into my lap like snow. I'd known the beignet was a cousin of the doughnut, but somehow without the hole in the middle, it managed to surpass any notion I had of what a doughnut could be.”
Source: A Second Bite at the Apple
“My stomach is a flimsy crepe, my heart a raging woodpecker, my blood a river of anxiety.”
Source: Shatter Me
“My stomach is in instant pain and I feel that terrible adrenaline again. I hate the crowd even more than the fighters and I see myself learning that proximity to pain is a particular pain of its own.”
Source: Handsome Vanilla
“My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon.”
“My stomach quivered as I watched him walk to the side of the bed. His dark charcoal gray sweater emphasized his broad shoulders; a white t-shirt was slightly visible at the V-neck.”
Source: A Healing Spirit
“My stomach rebelled at the thought of more food, but a scoop wouldn't hurt. There was always room for ice cream.”
Source: Angel
“My stomach rumbles. I need to eat something before I pass out. Summoning the last of my energy, I straighten and slop the tuna-tomato mix onto plates. Gordon Ramsay would have a fit -- it looks like dog food -- but I don't think anyone here will care.”
Source: Shiver
“My stomach rumbles in this governed jungle, hunger drives as I drop the clutch into the 9th. Triple double struggle and only God knows my own. Cold world I need a fur coat to keep me snuggle and warm. I favor myself in this trouble I try to maintain, shout out to the chain gang, changed my life from spare change into a hole elevated mind frame.”
Source: The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey
“My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.”
“my stomach turned and burned with the acid of failure”
“My stomach turned somersaults.”
Source: Still Me
“My stomach twisted. I felt an ache inside me grow in anger. Prejudice and hatred were poisonous and all-consuming, spreading like a cancer every day.”
Source: Fated to Love You
“My stories are character driven.”
“My stories are conversations between characters influenced by the situations in which they find themselves. I start the conversation and then let the characters take over. I simply listen and record what they say,”
“My stories are known for featuring fun, fearless Cosmopolitan-type heroines as well as delicious, dangerous heroes synonymous with Harlequin. Afterburn and Aftershock will be no exception. I'm excited to share these sizzling new romances with readers and to do so hand in hand with Harlequin and Cosmopolitan, beloved brands known for giving women exactly what they want.”
“My stories are never quite good enough”
“My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.”
“My stories are of gas chambers, shootings, electrified fences, torture, scorching sun, mental abuse, and constant threat of death. But they are also stories of faith, hope, triumph, and love. They are stories of perseverance, loyalty, courage in the face of overwhelming odds, and of never giving up!”
Source: I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust
“My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.”
“My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.”
“My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.”
“My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.”
Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury
“My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.”