M Quotes
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“Milly went to work on her piecrust. After she'd rolled out the bottom layer and then the top one, she moved on to the kidney beans. She didn't know that the beans had to be soaked in warm water overnight and then cooked for several hours otherwise they'd upset the digestive tract- 'to the point of tears,' Milly would read later in the cookbook. She plucked a sprig of thyme from her herb box on the windowsill and dropped it, along with the beans, into the pie.
'Poor things,' she said to her herbs, stroking their leaves, which were soft as feathers.”
Source: The Bird Sisters
“Millî şuur ve gurura malik liderlerin en büyük faydası, toplumu aşağılık duygusuna düşmekten korumaktır. Bir millet büyük iş yapabilmek için, kendisinin büyük millet olduğu inancını duymalıdır. Atatürk devrinde, Türk milleti nüfus, servet, teknik ve kültür bakımından bugüne göre çok geride olmasına rağmen manevî güç bakımından kudretliydi ve onun içindir ki kendisinde her tehlikeyi yenebilmek inanç ve kuvvetini buluyordu.”
Source: Türk Ülküsü
“Milo might be willing to spend his time in Paris out gallivanting, but I had a mystery to solve.”
Source: The Essence of Malice
“Milo refreshed Rae's drink and said, Talk to her. You need to get it off your chest." Then Milo turned to me and said, "Why don't you try a more subtle approach." "I demand you tell me your troubles," I said to my sister. "You're not as funny as you think you are," Rae replied.”
Source: Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again
“Milo's Way- A Haiku
Strength sought in small steps,
Like Milo's calf on shoulders,
Grow with steady will.”
Source: On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage
“Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.”
“Milosevic was an outstanding politician who gave his all to serving his fatherland.”
“Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.”
“Milovaný chce bejt úplně všecko. Zpíváme, tancujem, pitvoříme se, dáváme si kytky a to všecko v naději že nás někdo bude mít rád. Všimla sis někdy že stromy dělaj přesně to samý co my aby na sebe upozornily? Teda až na to že nechoděj.”
Source: The Color Purple
“Milovat znamená dát někomu příležitost, aby nás zranil, a důvěřovat mu, že to neudělá.”
Source: 250 zákonů lásky
“Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.”
“Miloš Milovanović, a former commander of the Serbian Guard
Who represents the Serbian Democratic Party in Srebrenica
Stated that the entire Srebrenica massacre was a lie
He called it propaganda, as if Bosniak people didn’t die”
Source: Justice For Bosnia and Herzegovina
“Milt was one of the men who discovered Bobby Orr. He once said that if a player comes along who is better then Bobby Orr, may the Good Lord let me be alive to see him because he is going to be one hell of a player to watch. Enough said.”
“miltii hai zindagii me.n mohabbat kabhii kabhii
hotii hai dilbaro.n kii inaayat kabhii kabhii”
“Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.”
Source: Essays of Elia
“Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent.”
“Milton Erickson was a master at using experiential techniques to elicit strengths that were previously dormant. Mills and Crowley have masterfully captured essential elements of Erickson's work and applied it to therapy with children. Easy to read, meticulously referenced, and filled with inspiring case studies, Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within has now been updated with important new findings, and it's essential reading for clinicians who work with children as well as for those who want to improve their use of therapeutic metaphor.”
“Milton Friedman had the grace and good sense to recognize that he wanted to talk to the general public. He wasn't going to just lecture to the people who happened to appear in his classroom in Chicago or on some lecture circuit. He went out to talk to the general public, believing that you had to convince a democratic nation to change its ways, and he succeeded to a considerable extent.”
“Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.”
“Milton had a day to day outlook; if life were not at any given moment positively unbearable, that is to say, if he were not actually cold, nor without a drink, nor alone, he still maintained a vivid faith in the future.”
Source: The flying fox: A novel set during the twilight of British rule in Malaya
“Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday ... He would say, 'Keep it sweet and short and don't try to be funny.'”
“Milton Katselas said, "Who are you to look down your nose at Anna Magnani and Maureen Stapleton? Who do you think you are?" I was doing this kooky meditation at the time called inner-guide meditation, where you go into a cave and you have a guide, and you fly around. So I said to my inner guide, "Take me to the energy that's blocking me from accepting my casting" - because I understood it intellectually, but I didn't want to do it in my heart.”
“Milton on speed. I am going to need about a decade to think about that. That delay in syntax, the putting off of the click of the sentence into itself, is something that has always intrigued me. I love the emotional effect of it, and never want it to be merely a gesture. Sometimes I try it and it doesn't work, so I have to put the poem aside, and try again, more simply and more strange.”
“Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I would beg to remind him that the first men of the earth were Titans, and that Eve was their mother: from her sprang Saturn, Hyperion, Oceanus; she bore Prometheus" --
"Pagan that you are! what does that signify?"
"I say, there were giants on the earth in those days: giants that strove to scale heaven. The first woman's breast that heaved with life on this world yielded the daring which could contend with Omnipotence: the stregth which could bear a thousand years of bondage, -- the vitality which could feed that vulture death through uncounted ages, -- the unexhausted life and uncorrupted excellence, sisters to immortality, which after millenniums of crimes, struggles, and woes, could conceive and bring forth a Messiah. The first woman was heaven-born: vast was the heart whence gushed the well-spring of the blood of nations; and grand the undegenerate head where rested the consort-crown of creation. ...
I saw -- I now see -- a woman-Titan: her robe of blue air spreads to the outskirts of the heath, where yonder flock is grazing; a veil white as an avalanche sweeps from hear head to her feet, and arabesques of lighting flame on its borders. Under her breast I see her zone, purple like that horizon: through its blush shines the star of evening. Her steady eyes I cannot picture; they are clear -- they are deep as lakes -- they are lifted and full of worship -- they tremble with the softness of love and the lustre of prayer. Her forehead has the expanse of a cloud, and is paler than the early moon, risen long before dark gathers: she reclines her bosom on the ridge of Stilbro' Moor; her mighty hands are joined beneath it. So kneeling, face to face she speaks with God. That Eve is Jehova's daughter, as Adam was His son.”
Source: Shirley
“Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.”
Source: John Milton: Introductions
“Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.”
“MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee: she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,
Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,
Have forfeited their ancient English dower
Of inward happiness. We are selfish men;
Oh! Raise us up, return to us again,
And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power!”
Source: London, 1802
“Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongside of it, it says 'Milton Berle' - and he made it just a tremendous party.”
“Milton was right. The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the word's, 'Better to reign in hell than to serve in Heaven'. There's always something they insist on keeping even at the price of misery...”
Source: The Abolition of Man & The Great Divorce
“Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.”
“Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.”
“Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters.”
“Milton, in his hand
The thing became a trumpet”
Source: William Wordsworth, a biography
“Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.”
“Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.”
“Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour.”
“Milton, when he went blind, declared that he could now begin the real work of his life. Similarly, with the merciless passage of time reducing my phisical strengh, I find myself less able to explore the outer world, but better prepared to explore the inner.”
“Miltons were, on the whole, the most enthusiastic poet followers. A flick through the London telephone directory would yield about four thousand John Miltons, two thousand William Blakes, a thousand or so Samuel Colleridges, five hundred Percy Shelleys, the same of Wordsworth and Keats, and a handful of Drydens. Such mass name-changing could have problems in law enforcement. Following an incident in a pub where the assailant, victim, witness, landlord, arresting officer and judge had all been called Alfred Tennyson, a law had been passed compelling each namesake to carry a registration number tattooed behind the ear. It hadn't been well received--few really practical law-enforcement measures ever are.”
Source: The Eyre Affair
“Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.”
“Milwaukee, Wisconsin is a place that I feel like it's undervalued. It's one of the most amazing cities I've been to. It has the most to offer.”
“Milyarlarca yıl sonra bu evren yok olacak ve bilim şimdiden insanoğlunun bundan kurtulmasını sağlamak için çalışıyor. Bilim şöyle diyor: Tanrı var mı yok mu beni ilgilendirmez, ben işimi Tanrı'ya ya da başka bir şeye bırakmam, kendi işimi kendim yaparım, yalnızca kendi aklıma güvenirim!”
“Milyarlarca yıllık bir evrimsel süreçle oluşan Dünyamızı son birkaç yüzyıllık aptallıklarımızla mahvetmek, kâinat tarihinin en trajikomik sahnelerinden biri olmaya adaydır!”
“Milyonların acı çekişlerini görmezlikten gelerek mutlu olmak her zaman mümkündür! Yüksek vicdanlı insanlar, bu çeşit duyarsız bir mutluluğa asla ulaşamazlar!”
“Milyonların inandıkları çoğu kez sadece çocuklar için masallardır! Mazinin uydurmaları komik bir şekilde insanların kutsalları olarak kabul edilmiş! Şan ve şeref, akıldışı efsanelere inanmakta değil gerçeği aramakta yatar!”
“Milyonların yürüdüğü yollardan yürüdükçe hiçbir yeni şey kazanamazsın! Yeni bir yol aç, yeni bir ufka yürü; yeni şeyler öğren, başkalarına yeni şeyler öğret!”
“Mimaki occasionally spoke to Etsuko, who seemed lost among all the adults. As a matter of fact, she was far from bored. She was a high-strung child, but at such times she would be turning an innocent gaze on the adults around her and studying in detail their gestures, speech, and expressions, and their clothes down to the smallest accessory.”
“Mimameid wasn’t built to keep people out. It was built to keep people in. It was built to be a fortress, to keep our people safe behind our walls, but The Celts have changed that.”
Source: The Mimameid Solution
“Mimarın birine yüzlerce, binlerce, kesilmiş, yontulmuş taş veriliyor, kendisinden bir saray yapması isteniyor. Bu öyle bir saray olacaktır ki içine giren kim olursa olsun, kendi eviymiş gibi, hangi odanın nerede bulunduğunu, hangi merdivenin nereden nereye götürdüğünü, hangi kapı açılıp hangi kapı kapanırsa hangi odadan hangi odaya geçileceğini bilsin; ama aynı zamanda öyle değişik, öyle ince yapılmış olacak ki bu saray, kim atarsa atsın adımını kapıdan içeri, ömrü boyunca böyle biryer görmediğini de, göremeyeceğini de bilsin, anlasın.
Yalnız, mimardan istenen bir şey daha vardır. Kendisine verilen taşlar renklidir. Bu taşları yan yana, üst üste dizerken, dizdirirken, aynı renkli iki taş ne yan yana gelecek, ne alt alta, ne üst üste. Koca sarayda, yalnız bir yerde, bir tek noktada, yalnız iki taş, aynı renkli iki taş yan yana düşebilecek.
Mimar işe başlamış, bütün uyanıklığıyla davranarak, bütün ustalığını kullandığını inanarak bir kat taşı dizdirmiş. İkinci sırayı dizdirirken karşılaştığı güçlüköerden yılmış. İlk sırayı bozmuş. Bir köşesinden başlayarak yapayım demiş sarayı. Birkaç dizi taştan sonra başka bir köşesine geçmiş. Artık, yaptıklarını yıkmak istemediği için. Gel zaman git zaman, aynı renkte iki taşı yan yana koymak zorunda kalacağını her görüşünde, o parçayı bırakıp biraz ötede yeni bir duvar parçası ördürmeğe başlamış. Aynı renkte iki taşı ancak tek bir kez yan yana koyabileceği düşüncesi onu o kadar yıldırmış ki bu iki taşın buluşmasını hep "ileride gerekserim." diyerek ertelemiş. Günler, aylar, yıllar geçmiş böylece; artık bir ayağı çukurda, her akşamla, her sabahla son gününü, son gecesini yaşayan, yaşaması olası bir kişi haline geldiğinde bir de farkına varmış ki
Bir de farkına varmış ki, korkusu içinde, yıllardan beri bütün işçileri yanından ayrılmış olduğu, gerçekte onları kendisi uzaklaştırdığı, tek başına kaldığı halde, sanki bütün işçilerin tükenen sabrını kendinde biriktirerek, bütün işçilerinde tükenen kendi sabrını gönlünün gönlünde toplayarak, bütün işçilerin gücünü kollarına aktarmağa çalışarak ördüğü parça parça duvarlar kendisine verilen arsanın her yerini doldurmuş. Ama hepsi ayrı duruyor, hepsi birleştirilmeği bekliyor. Bu arada sarayı, sarayın gerçekleştirmesi gereken koşulları aklından büsbütün çıkarmış olduğu için bu duvarları birleştirmeğe, kapatmağa gücü yetse bile, ömrü yetse bile, bu bitecek yapı saraya değil, herkesin bilebileceği ama eşine kimsenin rastlamamış olacağı bir saraya değil, hayvanların barınabileceği bir ahıra bile benzemeyecek. Ne saray ne yapı varmış ortada, ne de bunların düşüncesi.
İoakim'in içinde bir tek soru kıvrılmıştı o gece, inceden inceye: Yapmasa ne olurdu? Uğraşmasa ne olurdu?
O yaşta, yükümü anlamaktan çok yadsımağa yakındır insan...
O gece anlatılan masalın bu noktayı aydınlatan, cevaplayan bir yerleri vardı herhalde. Orasını ansımıyor. Ancak, bütün bu bilgiler, bir insanın bu oyunu niye kabul edebileceğini, bu oyuna, bütün ömrünü harcatan böyle bir oyuna niye girebileceğini anlatamazdı o yaşta bir İoakim'e. Andronikos, hayatını o kadar dolduran bir anı, bir yaşayış biçimiydi ki bu mimarla kendi arasında herhangi bir bağ görememiş, ya da herhangi bir bağ olamayacağını kesinlikle düşünememişti.
Doğulu köle, saatlerce sürmüş gibi olan masalını bitirdikten sonra İoakim'e şunu sormuştu: Ne anladın bunlardan? Bu masal sana neyi düşündürmek ister? Sonra İoakim'in karşılığını beklemeden doğrulup yerinden kalkmıştı. Yürürken "Hayat" demişti, o kadar.”
Source: A Long Day's Evening