M Quotes
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“Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.”
“Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.”
“Mostly, what people really mean by confidence is that they are better than other people; generally, people known to them. Fortunately, we don’t need to be better than anyone else to be happy. We do, however, need to fulfil our own specific potential.”
Source: Dance: A Spiritual Affair
“Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau days, imploded years. Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect, abjuring motivation, consistency, good sense.”
Source: Black Hornet
“Mostly, when Jess didn't want to talk about her ideas in class, Colleen thought that Jess was showing off, making sure that she would be coaxed and pleaded with, but how could Jess have explained in a coherent way that she was scared? Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holding them up to the light and killing them, yes, killing them, because thoughts are supposed to stay and grow in quiet, dark places, like butterflies in cocoons.”
“Mostly when people write about the trauma of gender violence, it's described as one awful, exceptional event or relationship, as though you suddnly fell into the water, but what if you're swimming through it your whole life, and there is no dry land in sight?”
Source: Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
“Mostly with commercial work, it isn't about personal vision. It's not a personal effort, it's work for hire. That's more my attitude with those. You just want to be a professional worker.”
“Mostly you are what they think you are.”
Source: American Gods
“Mostly you don't want to make people feel bad because they carry that with them for the rest of their lives. I've found that. I hurt people on Celebrity Fit Club by being too honest. People loved it, but I was serious. I just hate phony baloneys. I can't do it anymore. I told them no. My tongue is too sharp. It was brutal.”
“Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell.”
“Mostly you write to find out what you have to say.”
“Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.”
“Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.”
“Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.”
Source: Bad Dogs Have More Fun: Selected Writings on Family, Animals, and Life from the Philadelphia Inquirer
“Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.”
“Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists, to put it into form and sometimes reformulate it.... I didn't invent anything, I indicated.”
“Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.”
“Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.”
“Mostly, I hope that by having some fun with Shakespeare's style I'll encourage young people who are intimidated by Shakespeare to give him a try.”
“Mostly, I make sure to stay keenly aware of my own shortcomings so that I am more patient with others.”
“Mostly, I make sure to stay keenly aware of my own shortcomings so that I am more patient with others. It can be hard to see a friend order a cow-milk latte when almond or soy milk is available, knowing that the friend knows what dairy cows go through, how they mourn their babies, who have been carted off to veal crates so that we can steal their milk.”
“Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.”
“Mostly, I stand in awe of the every day women I knew from childhood that I interact with on Facebook. They struggle with juggling careers and raising children, endure hardships and occasional setbacks and yet do so with humility, grace and a sense of humor. Now that is inspiring!”
“Mostly, I stay out of social media conversations. But sometimes, they hunt me down and shoot at me anyway!”
“Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.”
Source: Last Night I Sang to the Monster
“Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.”
“Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.”
“Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's pop music with Justin Bieber, or whether it's magic.”
“Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.”
“Mostly, in The Great Waldo Pepper I remember the lovely Ed Herrmann befriending me and taking care of me. I was crying a lot. I was a real mess when we made that. But this is all such ancient history, Jesus Lord. Was this before or after The Sting?”
“Mostly, isolation allows me to go through a period where I really concentrate and get in a flow. Sometimes the whole process can be daunting, and when you're away from it, thinking about going back to it is especially daunting. If I go away for a week, I can be working on 10 songs at once, just jumping around to each one. I can get a month's worth of work done.”
“Mostly, it's flattering to meet fans. As long as it's in a planned, professional meeting, rather than, say, someone dropping by my home, which is not as pleasant.”
“Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was.”
“Mostly, people watch their shows online and they watch them in a block. They don't have to tolerate the commercials, and they also don't have to wait another week. People binge watch. It's interesting.”
“Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!”
Source: Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?
“Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.”
“Mostly, the people in "the room" are paid lobbyists representing interests that could afford to pay them. No wonder policy isn't being made that helps smaller, independent musicians or those unaffiliated with a larger entity.”
“Mostly, though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire.”
“Mostly, though, I dream of good things...I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets..again and music will play in the...houses and kites will fly in the skies.”
“Mostly, two miles an hour is good going.”
“Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen.”
Source: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
“Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.”
Source: Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou
“Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.”
“Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.”
Source: The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer
“Mosul stands rally at a sort of juncture of sectarian and ethnic differences.”
“Mosul, the native city of the historian Ibn al-Athir, was the capital of Jazira, or Mesopotamia, the fertile plain watered by the two great rivers Tigris and Euphrates. It was a political, cultural, and economic centre of prime importance. The Arabs boasted of its succulent fruit: its apples, pears, grapes, and pomegranates. The fine cloth it exported - called 'muslin', a word derived from the city's name - was known throughout the world. At the time of the arrival of the Franj, the people of the emir Karbuqa's realm were already exploiting another natural resource, which the traveller Ibn Jubayr was to describe with amazement a few dozen years later: deposits of naphtha. This precious dark liquid, which would one day make the fortune of this part of the world, already offered travellers an unforgettable spectacle.”
Source: The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
“Mosè è balbuziente, ma il testo non dice se, nel dialogo con Dio, la sua lingua inciampi. Da un roveto crepita una voce, da un balbuziente sgorgano domande: piace credere che il loro colloquio sia un canto.
Perché il creato suona e c'è una musica che può raggiungere per una volta l'unisono tra la creatura e l'immenso.”
Source: Una nuvola come tappeto
“Mot of my trips up Bald Mountain have been in isolation. This is part of the joy of the mountains for me. - Greg Goodman on HIKE NUMBER 11: Bald Mountain, p. 76”
Source: The Hiker's Guide to the Central Sierras; Shaver, Florence & Huntington Lakes Region
“Motel. Motel. Motel loneliness moans across the continent like foghorns over still oily waters of tidal rivers.”
Source: Interzone