M Quotes
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“Montag shook his head. He looked at a blank wall. The girl's face was there, really quite beautiful in memory: astonishing, in fact. She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of a night when you waken to see the time and see the clock telling you the hour and the minute and the second, with a white silence and a glowing, all certainty and knowing what it had to tell of the night passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Montag tried to see the men's faces, the old faces he remembered from the firelight, lined and tired. He was looking for a brightness, a resolve, a triumph over tomorrow that hardly seemed to be there. Perhaps he had expected their faces to burn and glitter with the knowledge they carried, to glow as lanterns glow, with the light in them. But all the light had come from the campfire, and these men had seemed no different than any others who had run a long race, searched a long search, seen good things destroyed, and now, very late, were gathered to wait for the end of the party and the blowing out of the lamps. They weren't at all certain that the things they carried in their heads might make every future dawn glow with a purer light, they were sure of nothing save that the books were on file behind their quiet eyes, the books were waiting, with their pages uncut, for the customers who might come by in later years, some with clean and some with dirty fingers.
Montag squinted from one face to another as they walked.
"Don't judge a book by its cover," someone said.
And they all laughed quietly, moving downstream.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Montague's just been found in a toilet, Sir.”
“Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.”
Source: Signs
“Montaigne and Shakespeare have each been held up as the first truly modern writers, capturing that distinctive modern sense of being unsure where you belong, who you are, and what you are expected to do. The Shakespearean scholar J. M. Robertson believed that all literature since these two authors could be interpreted as an elaboration of their joint theme: the discovery of self-divided consciousness.”
Source: How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
“Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.”
Source: The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal
“Montaigne said long ago: "Were I not to follow the straight road for its straightness, I should follow it for having found by experience that in the end it is commonly the happiest and most useful track." The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not then new, but among the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance; it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say.”
Source: Democracy in America
“Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not a special, unique gift of human beings, marking us off from the rest of nature.”
“Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention, like cats that, keeping their eyes closed as if asleep, are actually counting the stars.”
Source: The Snack Thief
“Montalbano, di scatto, si susì e cangiò canale, più che arraggiato, avvilito da quella presuntuosa stupidità. Si illudevano di fermare una migrazione epocale con provvedimenti di polizia e con decreti legge. E s’arricordò che una volta aveva veduto, in un paese toscano, i cardini del portone di una chiesa distorti da una pressione accussì potente che li aveva fatti girare nel senso opposto a quello per cui erano stati fabbricati. Aveva domandato spiegazioni a uno del posto. E quello gli aveva contato che, al tempo della guerra, i nazisti avevano inserrato gli omini del paese dintra alla chiesa, avevano chiuso il portone, e avevano cominciato a gettare bombe a mano dall’alto. Allora le pirsone, per la disperazione, avevano forzato la porta a raprirsi in senso contrario e molti erano arrinisciuti a scappare. Ecco: quella gente che arrivava da tutte le parti più povere e devastate del mondo aveva in sè tanta forza, tanta disperazione da far girare i cardini della storia in senso contrario. Con buona pace di Cozzi, Pini, Falpalà e soci.”
Source: Rounding the Mark
“Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly.”
Source: Inspector Montalbano: The first three novels in the series
“Montana
A great many small failures have brought me to this
Dark room where, against the teachings of the church,
I lie in the forgiving dark with you and we kiss
And loosen our clothing and feel the hot urge
Toward nakedness, man's natural destination,
The slow unbuttoning, unclasping, until at last
We lie revealed. The fine sensation
Of you on my skin. A slender woman as vast
As Montana and I am now heading west
On a winding road through the dark contours
Of mountains and into a valley, coming to rest
In a meadow that I recognize as yours.
This is what I drove across North Dakota to find:
This sweet nest. And put all my failed life behind.”
“Montana and I had a chemistry that was unbelievable. When I first came into the league he told me I added five years to his career, and I just think we complimented each other very well and were able to do some amazing things out on the football field.”
“Montana lowered his lips to mine, his featherlight touch teasing me with the promise of a crushing kiss that would cleave my soul in two.”
Source: The Chosen
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans”
Source: Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962
“Montana should come with a surgeon general warning that it's addictive. The sky is big and blue, and the air is always fresh and crisp and scented with pine. There's a frontier spirit, but also a calmness, beauty in the landscape that slows your pulse.”
Source: Keeping Mr. Right Now
“Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one.”
Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE
“Montana's ranchers raise the best cattle in the world. If Taco Bell needs to beef up, they can give their customers the highest quality meat around by using Montana beef, and in the process, supporting agriculture jobs in Montana.”
“Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.”
“Montañas, resistencias, creadores de decenios destructores... tu expectativa de suicidio que continuamente hace caso omiso de ti.”
Source: Amras
“Monte Cristo raised his eyes heavenwards but could not see the heavens: there was a veil of stone between him and the firmament.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Montefiore's impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well as their tools in the Church, although I denounce them.”
Source: Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition
“Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!”
“Monterey was the Maraschino cherry on top of the Sundae that was the '60s. It was totally unprecedented, and the audience was unprecedented in their joy.”
“Montesquieu had the style of a genius; Buffon, the genius of style.”
“Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.”
“Montgomery's unique role in the domestic slave trade was that it was the first community that had a rail line that connected the Deep South to the mid-Atlantic region.”
“Month after month, the Russians, bearing the brunt of war, had waited. The Anglo-American landing did not come until June 6, 1944, when the Russian army had already liberated most of the USSR and was driving across Poland. Many Russians had bitterly wondered whether the Allies delayed so that Russia might take the loss, and landed at last in Normandy because they could not afford to let Russians take Berlin alone.”
Source: The Stalin era
“Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.”
“Month to month there were many discrepancies carried forward without resolution through what I jokingly called my “999 (or Nick Leeson)” account.”
Source: Bust
“Months after my first real breakup, I was experiencing the ego thrash that comes with watching an old boyfriend move on. I was lucky she wasn’t a beauty queen. Dissecting her physical flaws was the aspirin that would not heal my wounds, but temporarily eased my pain. For the first time in my life, I managed to behave like a true southern belle. I lifted my lips into a bright smile and warmly greeted my enemy as if she were my new best friend.
With all the phony verbal sugar I could muster I said, “Hi! We haven’t met before. My name’s Maggie.”
Source: Just Another Number
“Months ago, he'd told Effie, grandmother to his eldest brother's wife, that he was too busy to find a woman. He went on to brag he was quite happy being alone. That the only way he'd even consider a woman was if she dropped from the feckin' sky.He groaned and downed his first cup of coffee. Him and his big whisky loosened tongue.”
Source: Bearing It All
“Months ago I shared my secrets with him and recognized the tenderness in his voice like I'd only given him more to love. Like a diamond that's been cut and now all its edges gleam.”
Source: Wide Open
“Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection
“Months later, when I rarely saw the Angels, I still had the legacy of the big machine -- four hundred pounds of chrome and deep red noise to take out on the Coast Highway and cut loose at three in the morning, when all the cops were lurking over on 101. My first crash had wrecked the bike completely and it took several months to have it rebuilt. After that I decided to ride it differently: I would stop pushing my luck on curves, always wear a helmet and try to keep within range of the nearest speed limit ... my insurance had already been canceled and my driver's license was hanging by a thread.
So it was always at night, like a werewolf, that I would take the thing out for an honest run down the coast. I would start in Golden Gate Park, thinking only to run a few long curves to clear my head ... but in a matter of minutes I'd be out at the beach with the sound of the engine in my ears, the surf booming up on the sea wall and a fine empty road stretching all the way down to Santa Cruz ... not even a gas station in the whole seventy miles; the only public light along the way is an all-night diner down around Rockaway Beach.
There was no helmet on those nights, no speed limit, and no cooling it down on the curves. The momentary freedom of the park was like the one unlucky drink that shoves a wavering alcoholic off the wagon. I would come out of the park near the soccer field and pause for a moment at the stop sign, wondering if I knew anyone parked out there on the midnight humping strip.”
“Months of preparation, one of those few opportunities, and the judgment of a split second are what makes some pilot an ace, while others think back on what they could have done.”
“Montini had a dark side, as demonstrated by his friendship with Saul Alinsky.”
Source: Infiltration: The Plot to Destroy the Church from Within
“Montmorency's ambition in life, is to get in the way and be sworn at. If he can squirm in anywhere where he particularly is not wanted, and be a perfect nuisance, and make people mad, and have things thrown at his head, then he feels his day has not been wasted.
To get somebody to stumble over him, and curse him steadily for an hour, is his highest aim and object; and, when he has succeeded in accomplishing this, his conceit becomes quite unbearable.”
“Monto en cólera cuando escucho que no debemos seguir hablando de mujeres. Claro, a partir de ahora somos globos de helio suspendidos en el limbo social. No somos ni mujeres ni hombres. Ni blancas ni negras ni gitanas ni moras. Ni vascas ni palestinas ni somalíes ni alemanas. Ni ricos ni parados, ni bolleras ni maricas ni putas ni heteros. Ni gordas ni flacas ni sordas ni downs ni seropositivas ni cojas… Quienes andan siempre con esta monserga y parece molestarles más el binarismo que la opresión, que vayan a decirle a una mujer negra que, en realidad, no es ni mujer ni negra. Y que no se preocupe, que grite bien alto: «¡El género y la raza son construcciones sociales!». Y así el machismo y el racismo que han cruzado violentamente su vida desaparecerán para siempre como por arte de magia. Chica, ¡no ves qué fácil era! Venga, va, atreveros a decirlo: «¡Todxs somos personas!». Al final, las posturas que malentienden lo queer se asemejan peligrosamente al liberalismo.”
Source: Transfeminismos: Epistemes, fricciones y flujos
“Montovani? They play Montovani to insomniacs that don't respond to strong drugs”
“Montre moi le visage de ton Dieu, je connaîtrai celui de ton monde.”
Source: Le Goût de l'immortalité
“Montreal, a city known for its fusion of cultures and vibrant lifestyle, offers a remarkable range of experiences for locals and visitors alike. Among the captivating social activities that Montreal has to offer, enjoying shisha (also known as hookah) in cozy lounges ranks high on the list. If you're eager to explore the city's shisha scene, your journey begins at CityMyWay's comprehensive guide to the "5 Best Shisha Bars in Montreal,”
“Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.”
“Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.”
“Montreal is not a forgiving initiation....My parents and I had only just arrived in Canada three months earlier. On my last morning in Qatar, the temperature was set to reach a high somewhere in the 40s Celsius, the 110s Fahrenheit. Now, magnified by this thing called wind chill that I'd never heard of before, Montreal dips to 30 or 40 below zero, where the distinction between Celsius and Fahrenheit doesn't much matter anymore.”
Source: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
“Montreal leads Atlanta by three, 5-1.”
“Montreal was a very active jazz center until club owners started putting in strippers instead of music. Before long, there was nothing to hear.”
“Montreal's a unique city, very fascinating stories of architecture and history, and it's this sort of bizarre mixture of Europe and North America. It's not quite Canada and it's not quite America, and it's definitely got this very Euro feel to it. It's a very, very interesting city.”
“Montreal's not a city. It's a Disney World for alcoholics.”
“Montreal, this wonderful town… Pearl of Canada, Pearl of the world.”