M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Most of the time, I feel like the kid who gets to sit at the adult table for the first time at Thanksgiving. I'm not sure which fork to use. My feet can't reach the floor.”
Source: Bad Feminist
“Most of the time I just keep to myself. I think like what it would be like to be... someone else.”
“Most of the time I lack closure; a reason. Without closure, you are perpetually haunted by the separation. Even if the reason is obvious, there is no easy way to move on, despite what people say. I have lost enough to know that when people say "You are better off" or "Just move on", they do not understand. Most of the pain comes not from the separation itself, but from the chaos created internally.”
Source: The BPD Journals: A Year in the Life
“Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, OK, its the first of recording this album. I like to avoid that.”
“Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.”
“Most of the time I live with my pain. I have pain but I won't show it around. I think that's the nobility of the character. There's something noble in not spewing on people all the time about your problems. I'm the light guy, so I identified.”
“Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill.”
“Most of the time I sit down with my guitar or at the piano, and I play for awhile until I get a new riff or groove that I like a lot. Then I'll concentrate on building around that line of thought by adding words and textures. At first I'm only trying to please myself, and hopefully what I like will appeal to others.”
“Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.”
“Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.”
“Most of the time I think we're really pretty positive and optimistic, and we're so lucky to have the life that we have and had with him.”
“Most of the time I was in the background. I never played [the Virgin] Mary. I was always kind of the third angel.”
“Most of the time I was so close to falling into the darkest, emptiest place inside me that I just tried to feel nothing at all”
“Most of the time I wind up with a sleepily mumbled melodic line, sometimes with words, sometimes not. But then with my waking brain I have to decide whether it's worth...I mean, sometimes it's not worth it.”
“Most of the time I write my best songs just from feeling a strong emotion, so whether I'm just really angry or really sad or really happy, I immediately sit down at a piano and I begin writing a song.”
“Most of the time I'm by myself finding the next thing. Being an A&R guy, basically. I don't know how long I can do this for. I'm constantly fascinated by actors who are so confident with their career that they do a project and then go on vacation.”
“Most of the time I'm not even working, I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky. If there really is a god, then he really looks after me. All these years he's taken care of me, my career keeps getting better and better. Whatever I want just seems to come. And it keeps coming. So I promised myself that I have to pay for this, payback society. So this is why I started my Jackie Chan Foundation to help children and sick kids and people in hospitals.”
“Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container. I like work that gets out in the world and lets the world shape the poem.”
“Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.”
“Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me.”
“Most of the time if not all the time. Safety sounds stupid. When you choose to be safe. They might think you are stupid , whack or not cool. At the end it is you and your life. You will realize that it better to choose to be safe than to be sorry. There is nothing cool about dying or regretting.”
“Most of the time, if not always, we are not bad people. We have not done anything wrong or hurt anyone. It is just that some people want us to appear bad because it fits their narrative or intrusive thoughts. They are constantly anticipating bad news about us or hoping to hear that we have done something wrong. In reality, they are projecting their own negative experiences or behaviors onto us. They wish and hope to find something negative so they can justify hating, ignoring, hurting, abusing, or rejecting us. They go to great lengths to make us look like bad people simply because our goodness does not sit well with them.”
“Most of the time, if you treat people right, you don't have to be afraid of them.”
Source: Other Lands Have Dreams: Letters From Pekin Prison
“Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.”
“Most of the time in my work, I begin with the answers, with an idea of the results. I suspect that something is true and then I work toward that suspicion, experimenting, tinkering, until I find what I am looking for. The ending, the answer, is never the hard part. The hard part is trying to figure out what the question is, trying to ask something interesting enough, different enough from what has already been asked, trying to make it all matter.”
Source: Transcendent Kingdom
“Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.”
Source: Anil's Ghost
“Most of the time is with the family. Most of the time, is all the time. When we work it's a very intensive chunk of time. We work for 12 hours a day, 14 hours a day is common. And we'll do that for a few months and then we get to relax a little bit.”
“Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!”
“Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave.”
Source: Snow
“Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.”
“Most of the time Marilyn's mother remained unconscious, her breath labored and erratic. One morning before dawn, she suddenly opened her eyes and looked clearly and intently at her daughter. "You know," she whispered softly, "all my life I thought something was wrong with me." Shaking her head slightly, as if to say, "What a waste," she closed her eyes and drifted back into a coma.”
Source: Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
“Most of the time, morality is about the skill of being considerate toward others in the complex situations of life. It’s about being a genius at the close at hand.”
Source: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“Most of the time, most days, I feel nothing. I don’t feel anything. It is so boring. I wake up, and I think, again, really? I have to do this again? And what I really don’t understand is how come everyone else isn’t screaming with boredom, too.”
“Most of the time, no matter how impossible it seems, people truly don't realize how rude they're being.”
Source: Twenty Years Without A Weekend
“Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.”
“Most of the time one night blends into the next and weeks blend into weeks and months into other months. And sooner or later we all die. But at the beginning of the night anything’s possible.”
Source: The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls
“Most of the time, our enquiries are triggered by desires to corroborate what we think it is, rather than the genuine desire to know.”
Source: Songs of the Mist
“Most of the time our events aren't in the papers and they're not televised, so people don't know when we're competing.”
“Most of the time our stress is useless. It's because we don't see the outcome of things. God does.”
“Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.”
“Most of the time, people are not themselves...”
“Most of the time people feel okay. Probably it's because at the moment they're not actually dying.”
Source: 3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
“Most of the time, perhaps 99 percent of the time, the defendant is guilty; his screams are the final protest of a human being about to lost his most precious possession, his freedom.”
Source: Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness, and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial
“Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World
“Most of the time romance isn't even about love, anyway. It's about escape. Fantasy. Salvation from the mundane. Save me from boredom, from exhaustion, from my undersexed body, from microwave dinners and reality TV, from going to bed alone with a vibrator or a cat. Save me from my desperately ordinary life.”
Source: Black Iris
“Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.”
Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.”
“Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin. And people discuss it in a way that makes it seem so impersonal. But globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.”
“Most of the time, the most judgmental and disrespectful folks in Haiti are those you can't learn anything from. Their audacity is too much.”
“Most of the time, the nature of insulting people based on color caste religion, etc. and Seeds of racism are sown in the mind through light mood and jokes”
Source: "Zaki's Gift Of Love"