M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“My whole life I though I was the star of an overly earnest romance movie, and it turns out I was in a goddamned buddy comedy all along.”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“My whole life I try to make into a comedy, so it would be nice to see that onscreen.”
“My whole life I’ve been ordered about. Now I shall give the orders.” I’ve never seen Felicity so wounded. “Not me,” she says. “I never ordered you about.” “Oh, Fee.” The old Pippa surfaces for just a moment, hopeful and childlike. She pulls Felicity to her. Something I cannot name passes between them, and then Pip’s lips are on Fee’s in a deep kiss, as if they feed on one another, their fingers entwined in each other’s hair. And suddenly, I understand what I must have always known about them—the private talks, the close embraces, the tenderness of their friendship. A blush spreads across my neck at the thought. How could I not have seen it before?”
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“My whole life I’ve had the confidence of ignorance and also was constantly being judged by the confidence of ignorance. When I say the confidence of ignorance I mean the confidence that we have when moving without the fear of knowing life’s limits. I mean the confidence of ignorance that a baby has when diving into a 30ft pool because he or she thinks that it’s the same depth as a bathtub.”
Source: True Blue
“My whole life I've lived for other people, and I'm done.' I look at Nessa's tombstone one last time. 'That means I have to stop living for you too, Ness. I hope you understand.”
Source: Wretched
“My whole life, I’ve watched my mother let the winds of circumstance blow her south of happy, and she never sees the bright side of anything.”
Source: South of Happy
“My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. It's a little more complicated than that, maybe. But when you come right down to it it's to be liked, loved. Admired, approved of, applauded, whatever. You get the idea.”
“My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.”
“My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'”
“My whole life I've been so self-conscious about being skinny. And just recently I don't care anymore. All insecurities are projected because of what you think others are saying about you, but they don't really matter at all. My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair-things I'm so very grateful for now.”
“My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.”
“My whole life I've been trying to prove people wrong. I ended up beating everything.”
“My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.”
“My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That's who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you're perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.”
“My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.”
“My whole life is a contradiction on purpose - to make you think. I think people have forgetten how to have their own opinions. They're always waiting for someone to tell them what to do and what to wear - it's so boring.”
“My whole life is a dark room. One big dark room.”
“My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing.”
“My whole life is a practical joke. Every evening and every show has really become about entertaining me. I was always like that. And now I've come full circle because that's what the TV show is too.”
“My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It's a never-ending saga.”
“My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“My whole life is behind me. I see it completely, I see its shape and the slow movements which have brought me this far. There is little to say about it: a lost game, that’s all.
I had lost the first round. I wanted to play the second and I lost again: I lost the whole game. At the same time, I learned that you always lose. Only the rascals think they win.
Now I am going to be like Anny, I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.”
Source: Nausea
“My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!”
“My whole life is driven by love. It always has been. It's never been driven by material things - which are just benefits of doing something I loved.”
“My whole life is just as I see it now, glimmering and distant, exactly as in a dream”
Source: The Youngest Doll
“My whole life is my work.”
“My whole life is out here-the whole of my life...I'd come here naked, as a boy-straight from that river out there-throw my clothes on the floor and climb into that loft and lie there dreaming in the hay...All those summer days-scouring the banks of the Avon for smooth, round stones-scaring up ducks and foxes-kingfishers-swallows...somebody's dog...Oh, God-I want it back. Throwing stones that never reached the other shore. And the games-the games-the games, and all my friends...”
“My whole life is reading tabloid magazines. It’s really sad, because that’s what my show is all about — what is going on with celebrities. So I have to know everything.”
“My whole life is simply a revelation.”
“My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.”
Source: Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon: A Novel
“My whole life long I have done nothing but interpret my dreams of ultimate masculinity, and draw them.”
“My whole life might be a never-ending series of question marks right now, but this I'm sure of. This I want.”
Source: Some Girls Do
“My whole life revolves around your absence until I can't remember what I do, what I know. Or where I go.”
“My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with.”
Source: On Pilgrimage
“My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.”
“My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.”
“My whole life was a mess. I had no idea what was going on in the world. I was a prisoner of weed and cigarette.”
Source: Stardust Family - We Are One!
“My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?”
“My whole life was duality: Here's my life at home, here's my life on the road.”
“My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.”
“My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.”
“My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.”
“My whole life, you have made decisions for me."
"Your whole life," Georgiana pointed out, "totals nine years.”
Source: Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover
“My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor.”
“My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.”
Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir
“My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive.”
Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)
“My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic.”
“My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.”
“My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.”
“My whole life, I've been telling jokes.”