M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Most anything I've ever set my mind to, I could accomplish.”
“Most apologetic books are really written for Christians, even the ones that purport to be written for non-believers.”
“Most apparent conspiracies result from consistent local self-interest with no need for global coordination.”
“Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has been pursuing its policies for its own sake and not according to many of the principles that it claims are its own - democracy, self-determination, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, international law.”
“Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.”
“Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.”
“Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams”
Source: John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
“Most ardently”
Source: Pride & Prejudice
“Most are constantly asking for more, but with that comes more responsibility and most aren't willing to or able to handle that. Greatness comes at a cost and requires an investment. If you don't want the work.... you don't want the prize.”
“Most are expecting 5 percent to 10 percent hikes, but there are rumblings of far nastier surprises.”
“Most Are Governed By Physical Laws, The True Wiseman, Intellectual & Genius Is Not Governed By Any Laws, Rather Guided By The Spirit!”
“Most are unaware of their tremendous worth and boundless potential, despite possessing both.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.”
“Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It's always about the past or the future. People can't agree on the details of what has happened or is going to happen. But we rarely know what has happened, and we never know what is going to happen. What is really at dispute is how we will deal with not knowing.”
Source: The Confabulist: A Novel
“Most arguments are useless.”
Source: Aesop's fables: a collection of Aesop's fables
“Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.”
“Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.”
Source: Have a New Teenager by Friday: From Mouthy and Moody to Respectful and Responsible in 5 Days
“Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare becoming a mere lower-class brawl.”
Source: The Carpet People
“Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.”
Source: Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
“Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.”
Source: Complete Writings, 1975-1986
“Most art is just surface noise.”
“Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.”
“Most artists are always fighting for their fame. They have that fear, like the saying goes, "out of sight, out of mind." They need to keep themselves out there. I have never had that fear. If I have any fear, it's not doing enough to reach people.”
“Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.”
“Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the streets.”
Source: Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages
“Most artists are making as much money now as they could have made... in the heyday of Def Jam [when the] Beastie Boys would sell 10 million records or DMX would sell 6 or 7 million records. Those records are one thing, but then all the other ways to exploit the emotional relationship between artist and community is so much greater that I would guess that they're making as much or more money than they could have ever made.”
“Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.”
“Most artists are surrealists”
“Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.”
“Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.”
“Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.”
“Most artists don't know a hit. You can say I want this one to be a hit but it never become that way. The public decides that for you.”
“Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.”
“Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.”
“Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.”
“Most artists I know are private, and quiet folks who often spend most of their days alone in a studio.”
“Most artists I know consider themselves to be phonies, along with the feeling that there's something that you're doing is essential, essential to communicate, and deeply, deeply real.”
“Most artists I know had one person in their life who told them they were the second coming of the baby Jesus, and another person that told them they weren't worth anything, and they believed them both, you know?”
“Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.”
“Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.”
Source: Jack Levine
“Most artists live on their arts, but just a handful live for their arts.”
Source: Sips And Little Portions
“Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.”
“Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.”
“Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.”
“Most artists should be able to make the album that they want. You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process.”
“Most artists think they're frauds anyway.”
“Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.”
“Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.”
“Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth.”
“Most artists wish to receive acclaim for a body of work that will withstand the test of time. Ancient Greece culture produced many works of fiction, history, mythology, drama, and philosophy that scholars consider timeless classics. The classics of Ancient Greece greatly influenced the development of Western Civilization.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls