M Quotes
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“Marley was dead: to begin with.”
Source: A Christmas Carol
“Marlon [Brando] showed me that you could do the work and not have to shut yourself off from people or your family.”
“Marlon Brando acted with passion. His mission was to act . . . and act as though he was not acting. His dialogue had this eloquence of supreme hauteur that singled him out as a winsome virtuoso of invaluable art.”
“Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.”
“Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit.”
“Marlon Brando was the absolute opposite of everything they told me he was going to be, which is that he was a testy guy who wants to know that he's in control of everything. But, that's not who Marlon was. No matter what he did, the most important thing on his mind was justice.”
“Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery and Robert Redford, Mel Gibson - at least in the Road Warrior films - and Harrison Ford are among my favorite actors. Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Deborah Winger, Jessica Lange, and of course, Shirley MacLaine, are among the women.”
“Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?”
“Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?”
“Marlon’s worldly possessions went up for auction at Christie’s New York showroom a year after his death. Among the 320 objects were some knickknacks (Marlon preferred the Yiddish word chotchkes).”
Source: Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando
“Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.”
“Marlow decise să arunce pisica în ograda celor care erau responsabili.”
Source: Vremea Justițiarului
“Marlowe's the name. The guy you've been trying to follow around for a couple of days."
"I ain't following anybody, doc."
"This jalopy is. Maybe you can't control it. Have it your own way. I'm now going to eat breakfast in the coffee shop across the street: orange juice, bacon and eggs, toast, honey, three or four cups of coffee, and a toothpick. I am then going up to my office, which is on the seventh floor of the building right opposite you. If you have anything that's worrying you beyond endurance, drop up and chew it over. I'll only be oiling my machine gun.”
Source: the big sleep
“Marmalade in the morning has the same effect on taste buds that a cold shower has on the body.”
“Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho’ I don’t know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.”
“Marmite - like that other little black-jar job, Bovril - is so much a Mark 1 staple-of-Empire brand, so much part of the Edwardian world of enamel advertising signs, the history of grin-and-bear-it industrial food.”
“Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.”
Source: My Name Is Memory
“Marnie loved her better and more honestly than anyone else in the world, with the possible exception of her mother, who loved her intensely if not honestly.”
Source: My Name Is Memory
“Marnie was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.”
“Maroc leaps down to the ring-yard, passes a pond of lilies, then the big stones around a purple willow tree and the sandy ground where only training happens. He fixes the gloves on his hands, just as the knight of Kuhawk should before dealing with an unwanted intruder of this … house? Manor? Palace? … No matter what you call it, if you knew its secrets, you’d call it something else entirely.”
Source: The Oldest Dance
“Maroon 5 is crazy to me, I would love to work with them.”
“Marooned by all but one of his new disciples, the busker complete his act unfazed. The perfumed air seems to be replaced by a faint electrical smell like ozone after a lightning strike. When the man becomes a sterling tableau in the setting sun, Leah stares into his unblinking moonstone eye.”
Source: The Silver Tattoo
“Marquez was not born in Colombia.
He was born in Macondo,
And his Macondo is his La Mancha.”
“Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.”
“Marra carried the knowledge that her sister hated her snuggled up under her ribs. It did not touch her heart, but it seemed to fill her lungs, and sometimes when she tried to take a deep breath, it caught on her sister's words and left her breathless.”
Source: Nettle & Bone
“Marra no longer had much faith in fate. She had been born a princess, which should have been lucky, but the price for never going hungry was to be caught in a struggle between people too powerful to call to justice.”
Source: Nettle & Bone
“Marra thumped the pillow and then gave up. 'Fenris?'
'Yes?'
'I don't know how to ask this without giving you completely the wrong idea.'
'All right?'
'Do you remember on the road, when we slept back-to-back?'
He did not answer, but she heard the bed creak, and then the indignant snuffle of Bonedog being nudged out of the way. Her own bed sagged as Fenris sat on the edge of it. Marra scooted up against the wall to give him room.
His back was as solid and warm as she remembered. She sighed and felt something unclench, although whether it was in her jaw or her gut or her soul, she couldn't say.
'You're a saint,' she mumbled, tugging the blanket up around her shoulder.
'You have no idea,' muttered Fenris.”
Source: Nettle & Bone
“Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.”
“Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.”
“Marriage - as well as erotic friendships and sexual liaisons -between members of contrasting races and religions will take place with greater frequency, and will be more accepted than it is today.”
“Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Marriage ... has historically been a battlefield, the site of collisions within and between governments and religions over who should regulate it. But marriage has weathered centuries of skirmishes and change. It has evolved from an institution that was imposed on some people and denied to others, to the loving union of companionship, commitment, and caring between equal partners that we think of today.”
Source: Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry
“Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.”
Source: The Course of Love
“Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don’t know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.”
Source: The Course of Love
“Marriage—a time machine for aliens from different dimensions inhabiting a home—the ship they travel—and each met strangers with the same face at the same dinner table and falling in love together again, and again, ...”
Source: Mechanical Bull
“Marriage abroad is never just love across cultures - it is survival though translation.”
Source: The South Korean Diplomat's Wife: Stories of Silk Dresses, Scandals, and Secrets
“Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but it magnified the bad things, so they came to feel as painful as a grain in one's eye. An open window, a forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage.”
Source: The Women's Room
“Marriage ain't easy but nothing that's worth much ever is.”
“Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.”
“Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.”
Source: And Life Goes on
“Marriage and adoption have legal implications, but they are more than only a legal reality. Marriage and adoption are meant to be a lived reality, a lived attachment [...] ‘But the marriage is for the sake of a life together, and the adoption proceedings’ for a life together.
And it’s true too: from the moment I first held her photograph and looked into Shiloh’s eyes under that starry Texas sky, I knew she was mine and I’d die for her. She was sealed in my heart as mine long before my hand signed on any dotted line.”
Source: WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of
“Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents' welfare.”
“Marriage and dating are man-made ideologies; if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, we’d all be born in pairs; as couples.”
“Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“Marriage and especially the ceremony which announces it, the wedding... That is how we say to the world, 'These two are now a family, and with this joining our families are joined, too. And you had damned well better respect that.”
Source: Blood Magic
“Marriage and family are certainly beautiful parts of life, but I believe those things can truly be appreciated only when we find, love, and respect ourselves first.”
Source: Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny
“Marriage and family life give us constant opportunities to deny ourselves for the sake of others. And yet self-denial is not a mask for self-contempt, but the necessary means for achieving self-mastery; for self-mastery makes possible our self-giving and self-fulfillment. Sin is not wanting too much, but settling for too little. It's settling for self-gratification rather than self-fulfillment.”
Source: First Comes Love: Finding Your Family in the Church and the Trinity
“Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it's part of the collective brain that was further enhanced by eighth-grade shop class.”
“Marriage and friendship were built on trust and loyalty. Not deceit and lies. Love could only be given. It could never be demanded.”
“Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.”