M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.”
“Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so.”
“Mandela's commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power”
“Mandela's message will never die. It will continue to inspire freedom fighters and give confidence to people who defend just causes and universal rights.”
“Mandela? He lasted 27 years in prison but he never could've done 30.”
“Mandelstam - his gift and the untamable nature of it - was like a thorn in Stalin's brain.”
“Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked with his - Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva - though their work is more "urgent" than most American poetry, seem to me to operate at a lesser charge than Mandelstam.”
“Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.”
“Mandelstam's style is not singular. He could be stately and traditional, ribald and funny, hectic, elegiac. He could handle abstractions and ideas as well as Pope or Browning but then be so musical that other poems approach pure sound.”
“Mandrake
(Atropa Mandragora)
If you're interested in a plant that looks like a person, has visible sex organs, is an aphrodisiac of the first order, contains mind-altering alkaloids such as hyoscyamine, has been known to cure depression and insomnia, then Atropa Mandragora is the plant for you. But be careful. More than one person who has pulled this plant out of the ground has died in the process.”
Source: Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire
“Mandrake is medicinal because the root contains an alkaloid that belongs to the atropine group. It's a powerful narcotic and analgesic, and, in larger doses, a superb anesthetic. It's magical because of the bizarre shape of the root, which looks like a human being, sometimes male, sometimes female. This root can and will exercise supernatural power over the human body and mind. It's both an aphrodisiac and a strong hallucinogen. Think about it. Those two things together can create the most mind-bending sex you're ever likely to have. And babies, too. In the book of Genesis, the barren Rachel eats the root and becomes pregnant with Joseph. The plant produces out-of-body experiences in some susceptible people, and a vastly increased sex drive in almost all men."
"Sounds good to me."
"A lot of people think so. Folks love to experiment with the mandrake. The problem is that it's poisonous in the wrong doses, and, too often to mention, people end up sick, or worse. They forget that the mandrake is in the family Solanaceae, similar to deadly nightshade.”
Source: Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire
“Mandy because that was the most meaningful relationship.”
“Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.”
“Maneater -- make you work hard, make you spend hard, make you want all of her love.”
“Maneck studied beggermaster's excessive chatter, his attempt to hide his heartache. Why did human do that to their feelings? Whether it was anger or love or sadness, they always tried to put something else forward in its place. And then there were those who pretended their emotions were bigger and grander than anyone else's. A little annoyance they acted like gigantic rage; where a smile or chuckle will do, they laughed hysterically. Either way, it was dishonest.”
Source: A Fine Balance
“Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while, Manet took me aside and whispered, 'You're on very good terms with Renoir and take an interest in his future - do advise him to give up painting! You can see for yourself that it's not his metier at all.”
“Manette:
- Cette Jeunesse ne croit à rien. [...] Vous ne croyez pas non plus à grand-chose. [...] André est contre tous. C'est ça la faute. C'est pour ça que Philippe (son fils) a mal tourné. Il faut être pour quelque chose.”
Source: L’âge de discrétion
“Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.”
Source: SUN TZU on the ART OF WAR
“Manfred,” I began, exasperated, “I just don’t know what to do with you.”
“I have some very good ideas,” he said. He waggled his eyebrows.
He was making it funny, but he was serious. I never doubted that at my slightest response, Manfred would be booking us into the nearest hotel as fast as he could whip out his wallet.”
Source: Grave Secret
“Manfried imagined the stars to be jewels shining in the depths of a long-sealed crypt and, drifting off, he almost glimpsed himself prying open the lid of night and stuffing his pockets with the glittering gems.”
Source: The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart
“manful potency
as masterful kissers
requires fecundity
with voluminous whiskers”
Source: On the Occasion of a Wedding: Eclectic Love Poems
“Manga endings might always be the same. However when it comes to real life, neither you nor I are readers. We are the writers. We can change the ending.”
“Manga is a highly respected form of storytelling. Calling it comics doesn’t do it justice. I’ll sort her out with some other graphic novels, too. It’s all stories. It all counts.”
Source: The Littlest Library
“Manga is a very entertaining cultural form, made of many totally different genres. Don’t restrict yourself with a single style of manga. I would be delighted to be your springboard, but try to read as much as you can in order to branch out!”
“Manga is the very soul of children.”
“Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga is kitsch. Manga is sense of wonder. Manga is … there is no conclusion yet.”
“Manga just needs to be interesting. If it is than it will get serialized.”
“Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching from behind his back. The whole teacher-master thing is part of Asian culture, I think.”
“Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.”
“Mangan ora mangan sing penting CONNECT!”
Source: Anxieties / Desires
“MANGE DES MUFFINS!" - Bast”
Source: The Red Pyramid
“Mangling my racket and an odd swearword on the court is not something I am proud of and it shouldn't happen, but even my coaches have told me that it's sometimes better to let it all out, the anger inside you, because keeping it bottled would just eat you up in the long term.”
“Manglish is the Malaysian form of English. It’s superior to Singlish when you’re in Malaysia and inferior when you’re in Singapore. It’s known for its love for Malay, Cantonese, Tamil, Mandarin, and Hokkien. Occasionally, there are English terms, too. It’s different from Indian English, which is spoken with a punchy tone, or British English, which is an endangered language in London. A key distinction between Manglish and Singlish is Manglish’s recognition of Tamil words. Singlish denies the existence of inferior Tamil words.”
Source: Saint Richard Parker
“Manhandling the open here spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the illegal side.”
“Manhattan across the water, the glittering towers. I was working, but I didn't have anything like enough to do, and the bad times came in the evenings, when I came back to my room, sat on the couch and watched the world outside me going through on glass a lightbulb at a time.”
Source: The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“Manhattan cabs are born old.”
Source: The Ferrari in the Bedroom
“Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.”
Source: Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman
“Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.”
“Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.”
“Manhattan has other problems. Other gods.”
Source: The Red Pyramid
“Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn't mean it's and unfriendly place -- just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it. I'm a social creature but there are times and places you just don't want to do more than grunt at your fellow human being.”
Source: Pack of Lies
“Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.”
“Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.”
“Manhattan is basically this island in New York, where all the cool stuff is located.”
Source: The Diary of Audrey Malone Frayer
“Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.”
“Manhattan is where America began.”
“Manhattan's middle and upper classes began to wash in their bedrooms. Even in impoverished tenements, families brought out a basin once a week filled it with water to bathe the children on the kitchen floor.”
Source: Clean: The New Science of Skin
“Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, with beating drums as
now,
The endless and noisy chorus, the rustle and clank of muskets, (even
the sight of the wounded,)
Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus!
Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.”
Source: Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892
“Manhattan was a no-man's land, empty, an unofficial demilitarized zone between Partials and the human survivors. No one was supposed to be here, not because it was forbidden but because it was dangerous. If something happened to you out here, either side could get you, and neither side could protect you.”
Source: Fragments (Partials, Book 2)