M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maggie knew Betsy was a female crusader, but also knew that many times crusaders like her were only interested in their own personal equality.”
Source: Night Hawk
“Maggie looked like the sunshine main character of every story. Her curls were naturally beautiful and alluring, while mine were frayed and resembled a lion’s mane on a bad day—at least they did at that moment. Her eyes were pools of liquid brown like honey, mine were… seaweed green.
Her dresses were pastels and creams, mine were the darker shades. She wore pointed flaps with straps, I lived in my leather boots and embroidered socks. Even in that moment, Maggie wore an orange dress tied in a loose bow across her chest. I wore my mauve one with a brown corset embroidered with flowers. Cute, yes, but two different people. If someone came in searching for a lost princess, I’d believe them if they told Maggie it was her.”
Source: Second Time's a Charm
“Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog.”
“Maggie Nelson, in The Art of Cruelty, punctures the high-minded moralism of art that seeks, through depicting suffering, to move an audience to do something about it. “Having a strong reaction is not the same thing as having an understanding,” she writes, “and neither is the same thing as taking an action.” It’s true that emotion and understanding are not the same as action, but you might say that understanding is necessary for someone to act.”
Source: Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
“Maggie perked up on hearing the word “aged”. “There. That’s a reasonable word ‘Geriatric’ drives me crazy, and ‘elderly’ is so loosely and rudely, it seems to be. ‘Aged’ is just a technical term. Anyway – ‘Boomer’ Is the cutest.”
Source: Bloomer
“Maggie’s my whole heart but Iris, baby, you’re my soul.”
Source: Damned and Beautiful
“Maggie sent up a prayer of thanks, as she often did, that she’d followed her instincts all those years ago and moved into Rosemont. She’d known no one here at the time, but now the love of her life was next to her and her home was filled with people she adored and who loved her back. Waves of Grace”
Source: Waves of Grace
“Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.”
“Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises.”
“Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and more sad. But perhaps her greatest ability, or at least the one that most intrigues me, is how she can convey deep and powerful emotion without a trace of sentimentality.”
“Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.”
“Maggie squeezes my hand. It’s a silent message that everything will be okay. Somehow I believe her. In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.”
Source: Return to Paradise
“Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive.”
“Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try...what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested. 'Of course not,' Kat said. 'Everyone knows the French government banned the importation of peacocks in 1987.”
“Maggie was surprised to find her heart flipping. At 70 you think that’s all over. You’re too creaky, too selfish, too afraid of infirmity, too focused on staving off dependency, too focused on your unreliable knees and your wobbles on the stairs. Too farty.”
Source: Bloomer
“Maggie was ten years younger than him. Being cross-cousins, they lived in the same compound, in the same two houses that still existed. When their parents told him to take her for his wife, there was nothing for him to think deep into the matter. They simply obeyed their parents. Accordingly, she came over to sleep in his house. In this, manner they remained as man and wife for a period of over thirty years.”
Source: The Master's Daughter
“Maggie? Who takes care of you?"
"Me?" She pulled away. "I don't understand what you mean."
"I bet you took care of your dad. I know you catered to Brian and Phillip. Who has ever taken care of you?"
"I'm f-fine. I can take care of myself."
"I know you can. But what if I want to take care of you? Would you trust me enough to let me?”
Source: The Rehabilitation of Angel Sinclair
“Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.”
“Maggot calmed me down by explaining Bible stories were a category of superhero comics.”
Source: Demon Copperhead
“Maggot twitch, some people called it. If you’d seen much of the war, you had it. Some more. Some less. But everybody had it.”
Source: The Drowned Cities
“Maggots gnaw on time
Glistening ghostly in dark crevices
As I wait, resigned”
Source: Beneath the Surface
“Maggots squirming in your eyeholes...and your other orifices, might be carrying things a bit too far." "This is why I keep you around, Rixon. Always seeing things from the bright side.”
Source: Hush, Hush
“Maghribi: El aprendizaje es en la actividad. Aprender sólo por medio de palabras es una actividad menor.”
Source: The Way of the Sufi
“Magic [has] been replaced by machinery.”
“Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.”
“Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change.”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“Magic always wants to be something different from what it already is. Now that made sense to me. It reminded me of myself.”
Source: Dorothy Must Die
“Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.”
Source: The Annotated Emerson
“Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.”
“Magic and miracles are the exclusive privilege of those who consistently believe. There is no such thing as ‘temporarily suspending your disbelief’ in order to access such metaphysical wonders. You either believe...or you don’t.”
“Magic and mystery lies on the edge, just outside the comfort zone.”
Source: Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
“Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.”
“Magic and religion are ultimately experiential in nature and should be treated as such.”
“Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.”
Source: A Way of Being Free
“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised upon the apex of a never-extinct volcano of poor and oppressed barbarism, superstition and ignorance. Modernity is a cap superimposed upon the Middle Ages, which always remain.”
“Magic bent the world. Pulled it into shape. There were fixed points. Most of the time those points were places. But sometimes, rarely, they were people. For someone who never stood still, Lila still felt like a pin in Kell's world. One he was sure to snag on.”
Source: A Darker Shade of Magic
“Magic besieges the religious life and men yearn to speak the language of angels.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under them. The earth was dancing with the cranes, and the low sun, and the wind and sky.”
Source: The Yearling
“Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books”
“Magic can be a prayer said while kneading bread. It can be found in a friendship bracelet, a curse muttered under the breath, a song, a dance, or a long and complicated ritual. The one thing that characterizes magic is that its purpose is to produce a result desired by the practitioner. With such a broad definition, magic is something done by people every day.”
Source: Have You Been Hexed?: Recognizing and Breaking Curses
“Magic can be found in stolen moments.”
“Magic can be so draining”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“Magic can bind the body, but only desire can break the soul.”
Source: The Sorceress of the crystal forest: A Dark Romantasy of Desire and Power
“Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.”
“Magic = Chess, Chess is with strategy, doing moves which people think that
they are random, but they aren't random. They are part of the strategy. The same is
in the magic. However, the magic, have the ability to distraction!”
“Magic clubs have as much to do with magic as country clubs have with being in the country.”
“Magic comes from freedom, from openness, from willingness. Play burbles up from the yes that lives in the dark space, the now, the gimme, the yearning urge to be and belong and become.
Our joy lives in the dizzying impulse we all learn to stifle as we grow — the voice of yes that tells us to close our eyes on the swings so we can feel the earth fall away beneath us, to lie in the grass with the sun warming our faces until we’re certain that it’s spinning, it’s really spinning, and we’re all spinning with it.
I told Cal that the dark space is light, and it is, but it is also play. To be at play is to release the light.”
Source: The Dark Space
“Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire. That's why black magic is so easy—it comes from lust, from fear and anger, from things that are easy to feed and make grow. The sort I do is harder. It comes from something deeper than that, a truer and purer source—harder to tap, harder to keep, but ultimately more elegant, more powerful. My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour. It came from my love of a good steak, from the way I would sometimes cry at a good movie or a moving symphony. From my life. From the hope that I could make things better for someone else, if not always for me. Somewhere, in all of that, I touched on something that wasn't tapped out, in spite of how horrible the past days had been, something that hadn't gone cold and numb inside of me. I grasped it, held it in my hand like a firefly, and willed its energy out, into the circle I had created with the spinning amulet on the end of its chain.”
Source: Fool Moon
“Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.”
Source: The Dresden Files Collection 1-6
“Magic consists of creating, by misdirection of the senses, the mental impression of supernatural agency at work. That, and only that, is what modern magic really is, and that meaning alone is now assignable to the term.”