M Quotes
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“Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.”
“Most screen violence is tedious.”
“Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.”
“Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language in his piece, it is so visual, his moods are introduced and buttressed by camera rather than by word or character. But again, that's unique.”
“Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.”
“Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.”
“Most scripts are written to be green lit. They're not written to be acted. And a lot of writers with the greatest intention in the world don't write for actors. They don't understand the architecture of what an actor needs to get from point A to point B.”
“Most scripts that get written in Hollywood dont go anywhere.”
“Most scrolls in the ancient world were between twenty and thirty feet long. Much longer and they were hard to handle. In fact, texts were written to accommodate this general standard of length, once again illustrating the inseparability of medium and message.”
Source: The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
“Most sculptors make the mistake", he said, "of thinking of eyes as form and they therefore make them as spherical surfaces. Eyes are not forms, they are transparent, and what one really sees is the light of the soul in them - and that is what I try to give them”
“Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.”
“Most search committees use me.”
“Most seasonings are based on family tradition.”
“Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.”
“Most self-employed people remain slaves to the employed’s working hours.”
“Most self-published books are kinda like dreams. Your dream was interesting to you, but when you tell others what you dreamed last night, their eyes glaze over, because your nightly hallucinations really aren't all that interesting to anyone else.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“Most self-laceration is more noisy than painful.”
“Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.”
“Most sensitive boys tend to pause to reflect before acting and would not be considered risk-takers. This tendency can easily be understood as demonstrating a healthy caution. However, in most societies boys are frequently encouraged to engage in risky behavior and are praised when they do so, while more cautious behavior is regarded with shame.”
Source: The Strong, Sensitive Boy: Help Your Son Become a Happy, Confident Man
“Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Most serious plane crashes are survivable. There's a sense that, 'Oh, if we go down, that's it, it's out of my hands.' And that's just statistically not true. I have more optimism and more faith that my own actions can make a difference.”
“Most serious relationships begin as casual relationships and evolve into something serious.”
Source: Pump Your Brakes! How To Stop Having Bad First Dates
“Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.”
Source: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997
“Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.”
Source: A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes
“Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.”
“Most sex is not really intimate.”
“Most sex scenes in Hollywood movies are so boring. It's basically a $20 million guy kissing a $7 million woman, and rolling around and semi-humping.”
“Most sexual predators are people we know in settings we normally inhabit -at a party of a friend, at the department of a date, or in the sanctuary of our homes.”
Source: When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
“Most sexually adventurous women want a man who regards cunnilingus as a basic woman right.”
“Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction - it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass.”
“Most Shadowhunters get their first Marks at twelve. It must have been in your blood.” “Maybe. Although I doubt most Shadowhunters get a tattoo of Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on their left shoulder.” Jace looked baffled. “You wanted a turtle on your shoulder?” -Jace & Clary, pg. 314-”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“Most shoes are shaped as if feet were made for shoes.”
“Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main plot and a small subplot that feeds in a twist or an unexpected piece of business that ads crunch and flavor to the story as a whole.”
“Most shows, buying shows, have a standard fee for the first shot of the writer and if you have a very militant agent, I suppose he might jack it up four percent or something. But in essence, you sell for what is the going rate.”
“Most sicknesses can be reverse engineered back to their root cause.”
“Most sincere answers are beyond words.”
“Most sincere things feel at least a little embarrassing. It’s part of our defense mechanisms. Our heart’s way of protecting us from potential hurt.”
Source: This Time It's Real
“Most sincere things feel at least a little embarrassing. It's part of our defense mechanisms. Our heart's way of protecting us from potential hurt.
- Zoe”
Source: This Time It's Real
“Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.”
“Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job. And if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing. And it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.”
“Most single people are sick of married people presenting themselves as both available and interested, when indeed they are merely “playing.” Oh, yeah… and cheating. Gee, that is attractive. Not! Others could not care less what someone’s marital status might be.”
Source: The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts
“Most single people I know, myself included, have a difficult time even meeting up with the people they like, be it busy schedules, texting games, or whatever.”
“Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.”
“Most skeletons in the closet don't have wings. - Conner Bailey, to Alex Bailey”
Source: The Enchantress Returns
“Most skills can be learned, but it is difficult to train people on their personality.”
“Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.”
“Most small businesses failed because the owner was under skilled, not under capitalized.”
“Most small-business owners will tell you they don't want Obama 'boosting' them. They just want him to get out of the way.”
“Most smart people tend to feel queasy when the conversation turns to things like "certain death" and "total failure" and the idea of a "doomed generation." But not me. I am comfortable with these themes. There is nothing new about them, except when they come all at once. Any conversation that can make smart people confront a mix of Death, Doom, and Failure with a straight face is probably worth listening in on. They don't come around real often, and when they do it almost always means that at least two of the people doing the talking are in very serious trouble.”
Source: Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's