M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maybe in some alternate universe, she and Wendy are sitting and eating cookie dough. And laughing.”
Source: The Girl in the Park
“maybe in some cases, people see us fall and crack, see us as a failure. We gotta live with it, i live by our own code we shouldn't be ashamed if we fall, for every fall we get up and pick up ourselves a larger chance we win the next time because we learned.”
“Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.”
Source: De Kooning: a centennial exhibition
“Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.”
“Maybe in the back of my mind I was kind of wishing that I would become a rock star, kind of wishing that I would reach enough people who would be willing to pay me for the music, that I would actually be able to live off of just writing the songs that I wanted to write. But I don't think I really admitted to myself that that was my goal.”
“Maybe, in the end, a home is a place where you have no other choice but to stay.”
Source: Orient
“Maybe in the future I'll put out someone's one-off project, but generally I don't have time.”
“Maybe in the future when life sees that we are ready for love we will meet up or stumble upon each other and it will ignite the light inside of us that we are craving right now.”
“Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.”
“Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.'”
“Maybe in the morning, sunlight would to turn him back into a statue; then I could take Stone out to the forest where he could frolic among the ferns, gurgle at streams, and make friends with the other interesting rocks.”
Source: Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel
“Maybe in the next life we'll meet each other for the first time- believing in everything but the harm we're capable of. Maybe we'll be the opposite of buffaloes. We'll grow wings and spill over the cliff as a generation of monarchs, heading home. Green Apple.
Like snow covering the particulars of the city, they will say we never happened, that our survival was a myth. But they're wrong. You and I, we were real. We laughed knowing joy would tear the stitches from our lips.
Remember: The rules, like streets, can only take you to known places. Underneath the grid is a field- it was always there- where to be lost is never to be wrong, but simply more.
As a rule, be more.
As a rule, I miss you.
As a rule,"little" is always smaller than "small". Don't ask me why.
I'm sorry I don't call enough.
Green Apple.
I'm sorry I keep saying How are you? when I really mean Are you happy?”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Maybe, in the warm embrace of storytelling, we can all feel less alone together.”
“Maybe in this Star Wars world maybe subconsciously I was preparing myself. But I've just found all of my ideas I've been coming up with are big sci-fi things, and I wanted to do a big epic, a big space opera, and this is it. This is mine.”
“Maybe in time you'll understand only God can save us.”
“Maybe in writing about and through trauma it was therapeutic in a way, but it didn't feel like it at the time. I was in a very dark place, in lots of foreign cities, far from New York. A lot of personal trials and tribulations took over my life in those years. It might be some time before I see what therapeutic function this book did serve. But for now, it's not even easy to read from it.”
“Maybe independence is just the flag we wave to distract from the pain of being alone.”
Source: Cackle
“Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.”
“Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree.”
“Maybe instead of stalking her, you should go out with someone else."
He sighed. "You don't think I've tried? How can anyone compare? You might not believe this, but there is no one like Ageline at this school.”
Source: The Fiery Heart
“Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they all were part of one big giant superstory, except it got broken up into a jillion different pieces, that's why no story on its own makes any sense, and so what you have to do in a life is try and weave it back together, my story into your story, our stories into all the other people's we know, until you've got something that to God or whoever might look like a letter, or even a whole word.”
“Maybe Iraq will come back and become the dominant power among Arab countries. That seems to me as conceivable.”
“Maybe it actually was worth the hassle to be a nonconformist? I am sick of being told what I should wear on my body.”
Source: Virtual Mirrors: First Journal
“Maybe it ain't about others' mistakes,
but only your need for someone to blame.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Maybe it all began now, my life as a wife comfortable in her own home, a real wife. I tried to remember how Pinocchio had become a real boy. It had something to do with being in a whale, maybe saving his father's life; I hadn't done anything like that.
But surely a woman was more complex than a puppet boy and she might become herself not once-and-for-all but cyclically: waxing, waning, sometimes disappearing altogether.”
Source: All Fours
“Maybe it came from whacking at two-by-fours and dreaming about perpetual motion. I don't know. All I know is that compared to her, Shelly and Miranda seemed so... ordinary.
I'd never felt like this before. Ever. And just admitting it to myself instead of hiding from it made me feel strong. Happy. I took off my shoes and socks and stuffed them in the basket. My tie whipped over my shoulder as I ran home barefoot, and realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped.
Completely.”
Source: Flipped
“Maybe it'd be a mercy to be ended-
A broad hand gripped my face-gently enough not to hurt, but strong enough to make me look at him. "Don't you ever think that"Rhysand hissed,his eyes livid. "Not for one damned moment.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Maybe it'd be easier to pretend that nothing had happened.
The alternative might be more than I could endure.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.”
Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection
“Maybe it didn’t seem like a big deal to you Zach. But now, I hope you understand. My world was collapsing. I needed those notes. I needed any hope those notes might have offered. And you? You took that hope away. You decided I didn’t deserve to have it.”
“Maybe it doesn't makes any sense right now but just know that one day it will, cause nothing is happening without a reason.”
“Maybe it doesn’t matter how smart you are or aren’t, but how much you are willing to learn.”
Source: Anyone Can Get An A+: How To Beat Procrastination, Reduce Stress and Improve Your Grades
“Maybe it doesn't seem like anyone ever watches or appreciates you. Maybe no one on earth understands you. But your King is always watching you. Do it all for Him.”
“maybe it explains something to you," said marino, who always got impatient with lucy's computer talk. "but it don't explain shit to me.”
Source: Cause of Death
“Maybe it feels easier that way, just being invisible instead of always worrying what people think of you.”
Source: Wonder Woman: Warbringer
“Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something. But the folks in my classes with the biggest ideas and the best publicity shots ready to grace the back covers of their best-selling novels are also usually the ones who aren’t holding any paper.”
Source: How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead: Your Words in Print and Your Name in Lights
“Maybe it has something to do with being a reporter for a long time that I don't look to newspapers and television and so forth for inspiration most of the time.”
“Maybe it involved a woman. Oh, maybe even a nun—ooh! Wouldn’t that be scandalous?” “Indeed, but no.”
Source: Kindling the Moon
“Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.”
“Maybe it is desperation," I say. "Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love."
He looks at me, and in the sunlight his eyes come alive with greens and golds. "Sometimes we can," he says.”
Source: Sever
“Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love.”
Source: Sever
“Maybe, it is easier to forget the past,
than to overcome the pain caused by it.
Maybe, it is one of some other reasons,
why men forget their prehuman ancestor.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Maybe it is just easier to focus on life’s trivial missteps when the real challenges feel so insurmountable. But by doing this aren’t we also exhausting ourselves on petty grievances and leaving nothing in the tank for the real issues?”
“Maybe it is not mad, after all. Maybe it is the quiet work of believing in Good. Of believing in warmth, which you know does not exist in the stars, to exist in the hearts of fellow humans. Maybe it is something like trust. -- Miller, Why Fish Don't Exist (it's for some reason not in the list)”
“Maybe it is not the 'mad' people who should be fixed in order to function in our society, but our society that needs to be fixed so that we do not interfere with their function.”
Source: Sex, Death, Drugs & Madness
“Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.”
Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words
“Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.”
“Maybe it is the last chance for Europe to influence standards for world trade. Next it will be between the US and the Asia-Pacific region.”
“Maybe it is the media that has us divided.”
“Maybe it is time to get over your daddy issues and just deal with it.”
Source: Dangerously Divine