M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.”
“My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.”
“My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.”
“My best successes came on the heels of failures.”
“My best sunsets are always going to be in my home town, San Diego. Watching the sunset from the Pacific knowing that you're sleeping in your own bed, there's something special about that.”
“My best takes are my first two takes.”
“My best takes aren't necessarily take five or take six. My best takes are usually take two.”
“My best teachers showed me respect by refusing to share in my low expectations.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.”
Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
“My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.”
“My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with reading where you had some choice, you had some autonomy. There's a place for both. A good teacher will know how to find that balance.”
“My best testimonies are from the times I thought I couldn't survive.”
Source: Journey to Legacy: A Poetic Timeline of My Life
“My best thinking is done when I'm asleep!”
“My best time as a writer is any day, or any moment, when the work's going well and I'm completely absorbed in the task at hand. The hardest time is when it's not, and I'm not. The latter tend to outnumber the former. But I'm a persistent little cuss. And I soldier on.”
Source: Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do
“My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, "Don't write that," or "Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats."”
“My best times are midnight to six actually. I'll leaf through my notebooks and if something catches my eye and I feel like I want to transfer it from the notebook to the page, I do, and then comes this very strange process which is difficult to describe in that I'll write until I get stuck or I can't go any further or I'm boring myself or whatever and then I might go to another poem.”
“My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly selective.”
“My best training came from my father.”
“My best trip is yet to come.”
“My best vacation is somewhere I could hide, somewhere warm and not a lot of people around.”
“My best vacation is your worst nightmare.”
“My best Valentine's Day was when someone gave me a teddy bear. It was a really, really big bear!”
“My best way of making someone admit to something's wrongness is to have them imagine that thing done to them. Suddenly then it all becomes clear.”
“My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth year from its birth, the independence of the United States. A remarkable epoch in the annals of the human race, destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page, according to the use or the abuse of those political institutions by which they shall, in time to come, be shaped by the human mind.”
“My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.”
“My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.”
“My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information.”
“My best writing happens when I’m fighting to produce it.”
“My best writing has always been in journals.”
Source: A search for solitude: pursuing the monk's true life
“My best year I made $25,000. Of course, that was back in the '70s.”
“My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.”
“My bet is we'll find trouble down that way." He indicated the direction the giggles were coming from.
"Are we going to survive this week?" Fane asked Decebel wearily.
"What's this we crap? You're mated, you can go hole up with your woman. I, on the other hand, get to be smack in the middle of the festivities," Decebel said the word as if it were a disease.”
Source: Just One Drop
“My Beth.
Sitting patient in the shadow
Till the blessed light shall come,
A serene and saintly presence
Sanctifies our troubled home
Earthly joys, and hope, and sorrows,
Break like ripples on the strand
Of the deep and solemn river
Where her willing feet now stand.
Oh, my sister, passing from me,
Out of human care and strife,
Leave me, as a gift, those virtues
which have beautified your life.
Dear, bequeath me that great patience
Which has power to sustain
A cheerful, uncomplaining spirit
In its prison-house of pain.
Give me, for I need it sorely,
Of that courage, wise and sweet,
Which has made the path of duty
Green beneath your willing feet.
Give me that unselfish nature,
That with charity divine
Can pardon wrong for love's dear sake-
Meek heart, forgive me mine!
Thus our parting daily loseth
Something of its bitter pain,
And while learning this hard lesson,
My great loss becomes gain.
For the touch of grief will render
My wild nature more serene,
Give to life new aspirations-
A new trust in the unseen.
Henceforth, safe across the river,
I shall see forever more
A beloved, household spirit
Waiting for me on the shore.
Hope and faith, born of my sorrow,
Guardian angels shall become,
And the sister gone before me,
By their hands shall lead me home.”
Source: Little Women
“My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from it. I think faith and guidance can help fortify a young woman's sense of self, a young man's sense of responsibility, and a sense of reverence all young people for the act of sexual intimacy.”
Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer
“My big "double-aha" moment came while anchoring the national news at CBS News. It was at the height of the recession, and on top of the usual negative stories, my newscasts became full of especially heart wrenching stories of people losing their homes, jobs, and retirement savings. Starting the morning off like that could leave even the most optimistic person feeling helpless and hopeless. The lightning bolt came when we changed how we talked about the negative.”
“My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.”
“My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.”
“My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.”
“My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called 'Paper Heart' and really liked it, and then saw me in a movie called 'Ceremony' because she knew Max Winkler and said, 'I want you to be in 'No Strings Attached,' but you gotta audition for it.' From that it was easier for her to get me in 'New Girl.”
“My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.”
“My big brother used to come home drunk and he'd clash with my dad and I just didn't want that.”
“My big complaint with myself is that I get tired. But, I forgive myself because it's human to get tired. But, I didn't always feel like I could forgive myself. There's a certain [drive], I think. But, now I feel like, "OK, you can be tired. People should let you be tired. Then you should go and take a nap, and you should sleep." That's about it.”
“My big concern is keeping people off the highways today, so that we have no further accidents.”
“My big concern is me and what do I do now until the time of my death. That is valid. That is useful. That is beautiful. That is creative.”
“My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a word-processor. Half the cabbies at Rocky own computers. They tell me they can write failed novels ten times faster on a PC.”
“My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'”
“My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.”
Source: Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy
“My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up.”
“My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.”
Source: Chronicles
“My big fight is not in the movie and I don't understand that decision but I know he's right about it, whatever it is. Quentin did not hire me because I'm a kung fu expert; he hired me because he liked to listen to me talk.”