M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Mijn vader houdt van jazz en heeft een uitgebreide verzameling platen en banden waarvan hij vroeger als hij uit zijn werk kwam kon genieten. Hij kon met een rothumeur binnenkomen, maar als hij Dexter Gordon had opgezet en zichzelf een wodkacocktail had ingeschonken, ebde zijn stress snel weg en werd alles ‘te gek, jongen, gewoon te gek.’ Op het moment dat de naald op de plaat neerdaalde, maakt hij zijn das los en werd hij iemand anders dan degene die hij daarvoor was geweest, een conservatieve ingenieur met in zijn borstzakje een stel ibm-pennen met het opschrift denk na.”
Source: Van je familie moet je het hebben
“Mijn vader huilde nooit. Als hij bedroefd was, liep hij naar de tempel van de onbekende heilige. Daar knielde hij naast het graf, tikte zachtjes met een steentje tegen de grafsteen, praatte met de heilige en als hij zich weer beter voelde, wandelde hij terug naar huis.”
Source: De kraai
“Mijn vader zei: 'Als je verdrietig bent kan kunst helpen. Omdat je in een schilderij soms meer nog dan in een gezicht, meer nog dan in een paar lieve ogen, kunt zien, nee vóélen, dat iemand je begrepen heeft.”
Source: Goudvissen en beton
“Mijn vrienden zeggen altijd dat het wel zal komen. Dat ik de beste man ga vinden van hen allemaal. Omdat ik dat verdien. Wat zou het prachtig zijn als mensen ook echt krijgen wat ze verdienen, denk ik.”
Source: Vele hemels boven de zevende
“Mijn wil is wet.”
“Mijne Heeren, een land nis ooit klein wanneer het door de zee wordt bespoeld, Moge al die werkzaamheid, al die geesteskracht, waarvan ons land overvloeit, hare bezigheid vinden en make zij van Belgenland een grooter Belgenland!”
“Mijnheer Smith:
Eén ding begrijp ik niet. Waarom zetten ze in de krant onder de burgerlijke stand altijd wèl de leeftijd van mensen die gestorven zijn en nooit die van pasgeborenen! Dat is onzin.”
Source: De Kale Zangeres / Ubu
“Mijo, bad news does not get better with time, it will always be found out. The quicker you bring the bad news to others’ attention the better, even if you are the guilty party, the better for all.”
Source: Leadership Lessons From Mom
“Mijo, values are what you live by and principles are what you stand on.”
Source: Leadership Lessons From Mom
“Mika Hakkinen was the best opponent (I've had) in terms of his quality, but the biggest admiration I had for him was we had 100% fight on track but a totally disciplined life off track. We respected each other highly and let each other live quietly.”
“Mika: Were you happy?
Hiro: I was so happy.”
Source: Koizora (Love Sky), Volume 3
“Mike [Mann], can you delete an e-mails you may have had with Keith [Trenberth] re AR4? Keith will do likewise...Can you also e-mail Gene and get him to do the same? I don't have his e-mail address...We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.”
“Mike [Mitchell] brought me on as co-director, and eventually we ended up sharing a brain. It was overwhelming initially when I was working with departments I hadn't had contact with before.”
“Mike Adams, you are simply the sexiest man alive. You have my vote in .”
“Mike and Harvey finally consummate things, a great cliffhanger”
“Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.”
“Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that before. And he was about my age, and he just, that finished off my guitar career, just like that, in one afternoon.”
“Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.”
“Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.”
“Mike couldn’t believe that Mr. Mackey’s secret tragedy was connected to his store, and no one had ever told him.
“Do you think he’d ever take it back?”
“Why would he? His son was never found, and he still blames your dad for it. I think it’s his way of making himself feel better about the accident. He thinks horror movies are evil or something.”
“That’s stupid. Most kids are more scared of him than they are of horror movies,” Mike said, “He shouldn’t blame my dad.”
“He thinks he’s protecting the kids,” Tim said, rolling his eyes.
“Well, if he is trying to save kids, why is he so mean to us? Everyone’s afraid of him. Even Jack.”
“I don’t know. I guess he’s just a cranky old man. Don’t take it personally. He’s had it rough. He has to stand on that playground everyday knowing that just over that fence, his son’s body is down there somewhere.”
“Then why doesn’t he teach at another school?”
“I don’t know, bud. Sometimes people just like to torture themselves.”
- Saving Hascal's Horrors”
“Mike Devine loomed up again, trying not to lose sight of that hole in the trembling light. He wasn’t sure if it was the matrix of luminescence and shadow, but the gravedigger was almost certain the black mass of mould — the scab — pulsed ever so slightly, like a dying pockmarked blackened heart.”
Source: Billy's Experiment: An Old Castle Novel
“Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. "You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?”
Source: Pretty Little Liars: The First Half 8-Book Collection: Pretty Little Liars, Flawless, Perfect, Unbelievable, Wicked, Killer, Heartless, Wanted
“Mike Dukakis? He's the salt of the earth.”
“Mike Forsberg's images give us bright openings onto a world. . . . Here on the Great Plains both people and trees and everything else are in some way shaped by wind and weather. This book, too, has been shaped by where it comes from, and that's just a part of its beauty.”
“Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well.”
“Mike glanced at the two computer towers lying half-autopsied on her kitchen table. One had a bag of chips in it, the top held shut with a binder clip. A stack of motherboards rested on the chair in Mylar bags.
“Maid’s been on vacation, I see,” said Mike.
“Yeah. She ran off with the guy who writes your jokes.”
“Ouch.”
“There’s a postcard from them here somewhere. Want me to look for that instead?”
“No, no. Just the logs will be fine.”
Source: The Fold
“Mike had called me and said he could offer me less, and I said, "You're on!" Because I was really excited with what Mike Kelly was doing, and now what Cullen Murphy is doing with Atlantic. It's a really cool magazine.”
“Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.”
“Mike Holmes is insanely talented and his work bristles with the kind of humanity and insight that is rare in comics – or in humans, for that matter.”
“Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than they'd like to admit, in that all of them very much want to see a role of religion in society.”
“Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.”
“Mike Huckabee said he's the only person who has fought the Clinton political machine and won. As opposed to Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, who's the only person who fought a fax machine and lost.”
“Mike Huckabee says the answer to our problems is to cure all diseases. I guess no one's thought of that before.”
“Mike Jack. Who's bad? Aint on my period, but I got a new pad.”
“Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.”
“Mike Keenan has been responsible for creating a lot of good things for coaches, like mid-season job openings.”
“Mike Kelly [from The Atlantic] called me up and said he could pay me less money.”
“Mike Knox, I am also getting real sick of this! Your problem isn't me staying away from your girl... Your problem is your girl staying away from me!”
“Mike Laga will make you forget about every power hitter that ever lived.”
“MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.”
“Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.”
“Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.”
“Mike [looking at the Beastron 3-D Printer]: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Kamala: I don't know, are you thinking about how cool it would be to 3D-print gallons of this protein and fill a bunch of empty hairspray bottles with it?
Mike: That's exactly what I'm thinking.
Kamala: Look out evildoers.
Mike: Time to science.”
Source: Super Famous
“Mike Myatt’s ‘Hacking Leadership’ is a must read… Mike combines insightful yet practical commentary with in the trenches leadership experience few can match. I would highly recommend this text to anyone looking to become a better leader.”
“Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me.”
“Mike Nicholls saw me in the musical of The Full Monty and brought me in to audition for Angels in America for HBO. And that opened a lot of doors because you could go to LA and say: "Well, I'm starring opposite Al Pacino and Meryl Streep..."”
“Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me”
“Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?”
Source: Mike: A Public School Story: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“Mike parecía más confiado. Sabía que podía cubrir cualquier suma que Pratt propusiera.”
Source: La cata
“Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.”