M Quotes
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“Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.”
Source: Jackson Pollock
“Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“Most money today is created by private sector institutions - banks. This is the most serious fault-line in the management of money in our societies today. But banks are also dangerous. They are at the heart of the alchemy of our financial system.
- Mervyn King, Baron King of Lothbury, former Governor, Bank of England”
Source: The Right of Kings
“Most monuments are not something you're going to keep me out of. And I go to a lot of monuments.”
“Most mornings all I can think is
I am the reason for one person's boulder.
A rock to another. Both a joy and a woe in one life cycle.
Both the abused and the abuser. The tortured and the torturer.
It is not long till I realize that I am always thinking of what
I can be to another and never to myself.
You see, us humans, we make hundreds and hundreds of bad little
Decisions hoping that one of them leads us to the answer.
Not knowing that we are in the end, the only answer.
The chosen ones. The ones to ourselves.”
“Most mornings, arriving at work is like walking onto the set of a cozy sitcom. Every set-up is the same. Every scene routine and consistent.”
Source: Dirty Diana
“Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.”
“Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.”
“Most mothers entering the labor market outside the home are naive. They stagger home each evening, holding mail in their teeth, the cleaning over their arm, a lamb chop defrosting under each armpit, balancing two gallons of frozen milk between their knees, and expect one of the kids to get the door.”
“Most mothers kiss and scold together.”
“Most mothers think that to keep young people away from love-making it is enough never to speak of it in their presence.”
“Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.”
Source: Cat's Eye
“Most motivational speakers typically use anecdotes rather than statistics to prove their point. They don’t speak about the thousands of failures of millions of hapless men and women but always tell the story of one successful person to prove their point. They make great promises akin to a good salesman out to sell his wares. Many people follow their advice and unfortunately discover that they still are not able to achieve the promised success.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“Most movie stars don't change their look at all.”
“Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.”
“Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.”
“Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.”
“Most movies are not very good. Most people know it and like to see them anyway.”
Source: A year in the dark: journal of a film critic, 1968-69
“Most movies don't have the ability to find an audience. So the movie plays out very quickly in a lot of theaters to get the biggest gross. So that demands that we make things that are hits before they open. So they have to have the elements, they have to be franchises.”
“Most movies shot in Italian don't even bother to record the sound. In fact, sometimes when Fellini works, he doesn't even know what the dialogue is going to be, and he simply has his characters count from 1 to 10, knowing he will loop in their dialogue later.”
“Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.”
“Most movies, I forget about them while I'm watching them. I go every single day. But I've never thought about participating in any way. It's like being at home all day. It was never a goal to me.”
“Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.”
“Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago.”
“Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.”
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play
“Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.”
“Most music careers slowly but surely go down.”
“Most music culture these days runs on systems and networks devised to deal with the aftermath of thermonuclear war. Music culture has a habit of using these moods and machines in creative, unintended ways.”
“Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.”
Source: Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987
“Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it's a folk-art form, really, at its best. At different times I've tried to push against it as much as I possibly could, but ultimately it is a folk-art form.”
“Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.”
“Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.”
“Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.”
Source: Works for Children and Young Adults: Biographies
“Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is going to be a common ground.”
“Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.”
“Most Muslims do not want to adapt, not even those who were born here. They reject our way of life.”
“Most Muslims don't obey the order of god to kill infidels. This is why I say Muslims have more morality than their god.”
“Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering.”
“Most mysteries are soluble in time.”
“Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.”
Source: The Huston Smith Reader
“Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.”
“Most narcissists lack the capacity to give significant, authentic love and empathy, and you have no choice but to deal with this reality. Accepting that your own mother has this limited capacity is the first step. Let go of the expectation that it will ever be different. Most daughters I know have gone through long periods in their lives not understanding this, always wishing and hoping that the next encounter with their mother will be different.”
Source: Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers
“Most national advertising is done without justification. It is merely presumed to pay. A little test might show a way to multiply returns”
Source: Scientific Advertising Origins
“Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.”
“Most nations have some type of creation story.”
“Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher.”
Source: Discussions with Teachers: Discussion 5 of 15
“Most Nazis, KKK members, MAGA minions, and other deplorable racists don't even know they're racists, because they don't know that the malicious lies they believe about other races aren't actually true.”
Source: How to Defeat the Trump Cult: Want to Save Democracy? Share This Book
“Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.”
“Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness