
Top 100 I May Be Quotes
#1. Did it ever occur to you," asked Kira, "that I may be here for the very unusual, unnatural reason of wanting to learn a work I like only because I like it?
Ayn Rand
#2. I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense
Errol Flynn
#3. I may be more sparing with mention of my gang rape in the future. Although I enjoy baiting this bear, I don't enjoy his pain. Just his fire.
Karen Marie Moning
#4. I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.
Moby
#5. I may be fucked up beyond repair, but I can still see the truth. You deserve so much ... you deserve a loving heart and a caring hand, understanding and kind words to erase the false ones.
K.I. Lynn
#7. I think the people of Florida are fed up. I don't think Marco Rubio can - I mean, I may be wrong, but I don't think he can be elected dogcatcher in Florida.
Donald Trump
#8. History has to judge every man who served. I don't know how they're going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won't lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.
Barry Goldwater
#9. I may be the baby of the family, but that doesn't mean I don't get to boss people around.
Tamar Braxton
#10. Eternity, I don't know what's right or wrong, good or bad. I may be doing what's right or I may be deceiving myself. So instead, what I'm going to do is give my life to you.
Frederick Lenz
#11. It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search, but life lived to the edge of all that I may be. - Mary Anne Radmacher
Barbara De Angelis
#12. I may be more passionate about my comedy because that's the one place where I feel comfortable - because I'm in the now. Performing is the only time of the day when I have to really force every ounce of concentration into whatever's happening in that moment.
Howie Mandel
#13. I know that you are young. I know that you have no power with which to resist the Controllers. But I may be able to give you some small powers that may help
Anonymous
#14. I may be a good Catholic, a bad Catholic or a so-so Catholic, but that's who I am.
Teresa Heinz
#15. I may be someone who was always destined to spend my life wandering aimlessly. I can't settle down. The cruel part is, I want to settle down and the world won't let me. So what choice do I have but to become a fugitive?
Soseki Natsume
#16. I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.
Martha Stewart
#17. I've never thought that it made sense to put something out that I didn't actually find really fun to read. Or, if not "fun," engaging. My tastes are whatever they are, but I may be a little bit afraid of certain kinds of density. I may get turned off by certain kinds of show-offyness.
Lorin Stein
#18. I may be a burglar ... but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#19. If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness ... I may. If you ask nicely.
Lisa Kleypas
#20. I am still raw.
I say I may be back.
You know what lies are for.
Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet.
Sylvia Plath
#21. I may be a pawn, but I've been to the other side and survived the trip back and I can move like a queen. Don't piss me off.
Kim Harrison
#22. I may be Irish, but I'm not stupid.
Joe Biden
#23. But I may be one who does not care
Ever to have tree bloom or bear.
Robert Frost
#24. My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.
Ted Danson
#25. I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.
Antony Beevor
#26. There will be good days and bad, which means that some days I may be cranky and some days really cranky!
Peter Jennings
#27. I may be drunk but at least I'm not insane.
Tom Waits
#28. I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.
Brian Greene
#29. I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread.
Gene Kelly
#30. You thought I didn't notice the way you two looked at each other? I may be old but I'm not blind. I remember that
feeling. The spark, the electricity ...
I had to interject before I got the unabridged version of Anjali Does Mumbai.
Nicola Marsh
#31. I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.
Thomas Boswell
#32. The Japanese have a saying that for every new food we try, we gain seven days of life. I may be immortal by now.
Firoozeh Dumas
#33. If I lie down on my bed I must be here,
But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.
Stevie Smith
#34. I don't think Chris Callaghan is the kind of guy who likes to quote himself. But I may be wrong.
Chris Callaghan
#35. I may be smart, but I'm not knowledgeable.
Emma Iadanza
#36. I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment.
Tina Brown
#37. I may be married to a plastic surgeon, but I'm 98 percent real.
Heather Dubrow
#38. I may be an idiot," he said gravely, "but I would never eat a hamburger cooked by a clown.
Anthony Marra
#39. The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.
Ram Dass
#40. I may be a composite of multiple dead people, but I'm not stupid.
Seanan McGuire
#41. No, I am that I am, and they that level
At my abuses, reckon up their own;
I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel.
Sonnet 121
William Shakespeare
#42. Connor combs my hair back and leans close to whisper, "So long as I may be living, I live with you.
Krista Ritchie
#43. If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.
Henry David Thoreau
#44. I may be Anti-Big Government, but only because I am Pro-Human.
Gary Hopkins
#46. Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told.
Jeffrey Toobin
#47. I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty - a delight in the nice things in the world. And I don't think one should have to apologise for it.
Saul Leiter
#48. It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.
Robert B. Parker
#49. You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong ...
Leonard Cohen
#50. I think that every one , no matter how many troubles the may have when he grows up, ought to have a happy childhood to look back upon. And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.
Jean Webster
#51. I may be the one leaving, but you're the one giving up everything and walking away.
Loni Flowers
#52. I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any mouth. When I write I may be a Brando creep, or a girl laying on the floor, or a Japanese tourist, or a slob like Richard Speck. You have to be a chameleon when you're writing.
Patti Smith
#53. I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.
Cassandra Clare
#54. You better be good, sonny, because I may be old, but I'm still who I always was. I'm the sniper.
Stephen Hunter
#55. However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.
Paul Gauguin
#56. Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears
To-day of past Regrets and future Fears
To-morrow?
Why, To-morrow I may be
Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years.
Omar Khayyam
#57. Well I don't know how many pounds make up a ton, Of all the nobel prizes that I've never won, And I may be the mayor of simpleton, But I know one thing, And that's I love you.
Andy Partridge
#58. I may be taller than her on my knees. Does she need a man she can climb?
Carol Maloney Scott
#59. The secret is that I may be the head of the Bishop-Clairmont family, but you are its heart," he whispered. "And the three of us are in perfect agreement: The heart is more important.
Deborah Harkness
#60. I'll be damned," he muttered."Most likely." She folded the blanket with efficient snaps. "And I may be joining you, after what we just did.
Tessa Dare
#61. I may be no idiot, but I do know stupidity when I see it.
Matthew Keefer
#62. While I may be pessimistic about parts of the business that support journalism, I'm optimistic about the robust survival of journalism in the long run.
George Brock
#63. I may be a douche to some people, but I actually do run companies.
Scott Disick
#64. No matter where I am in my life, no matter what I am doing, I will never be far from you in my heart. I may be moving on, but I'm not moving away from you. You will always be in my soul, a part of my present, and a fleeting dream for my future." ~Emma Ranstein
Lindsay Detwiler
#65. No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.
Dennis Prager
#66. I may be immortal but I am still a man with blood pumping in my veins." He moves an inch closer. My skin heats up. Every nerve is burning. "You are off-limits. You are forbidden to me. And all it does is make me want you more.
Karina Halle
#67. That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!
Victor Hugo
#68. I would love to see a sequel to 'The Rocketeer.' I'd love to see that! I don't know that I would be in it. I may be a little long in the tooth to play 'The Rocketeer.' But I would love to be a part of that in some form or fashion.
Billy Campbell
#69. I may be a senior, but so what? I'm still hot.
Betty White
#70. My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms,
the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely
and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them
because I know that I am bored.
C.E.M. Joad
#71. I am not saying that I am different, but I don't have emotional pain. I may be angry and I may be peaceful, but no emotional pain.
Paulo Coelho
#72. I may be old, I may be poor, I may be black, but I'm here. I'm here because I've got this vision of justice that compels me to be a witness. I'm here because I'm supposed to be here. I'm here because you can't keep me away.
Bryan Stevenson
#73. Pray that I may be very little in my own eyes, and not rob my dear Master of any part of his glory.
George Whitefield
#75. Well, I have a testimony, I may be ignorant, but I am not lost.
Hugh Nibley
#76. I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.
Haruki Murakami
#77. I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
Barbara Bush
#78. I had to watch the Republican stuff which makes me feel even older than I am. By the time I get through the Democrats, I may be dead. I don't know how much older I can get.
Lewis Black
#79. Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself.
James Madison
#80. I don't want to freak you out, but I think I may be the voice of my generation.
Hannah
#81. Being a writer, I take thing seriously (not too seriously). I may be a young writer/self publisher, I do love to write and I want to share my stories to the world. but more importantly, I do take writing seriously.
Simi Sunny
#82. I may be small, but I've got friends that make me ten feet tall.
Mickey Mouse
#83. You are so adorable. You can never be bad. Everyone has a hysterical part in himself, and I may be that part you. I'm just a lunatic. Maybe, a demon. And you.
You're the world.
Nishikant
#84. If you get a good comedy once a year, man, that's pretty good. I may be pickier than some, but still, there aren't that many movies that are really, truly, honestly that funny.
Michael Keaton
#85. You have made me smile again; in fact I may be sore from it- it's been awhile.
Ben Folds
#86. I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.
Kevin Gates
#87. It would take a real daftie to forget that, Sassenach," he said. "I may be lacking practice, but I havena lost all my faculties yet.
Diana Gabaldon
#88. I may be an old fat woman, but I do not have cheese between my ears, Jaime.
George R R Martin
#89. I may be a nut, but I'm fastened to a good bolt, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Adrian Rogers
#90. I go to the House of Lords in the afternoon and try to walk halfway. I may be thinking about what I'm going to write. It's much more satisfying than sitting in a chair.
Ruth Rendell
#91. I may be wrong, but it seems that there may be some unraveling of the American tapestry. I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing".
Richard Paul Evans
#92. Oh, don't look at this frail, old druid like that, Solomon. I may be slow in my movements, buy my mind is sharp as a dagger's tip. Lazerin smirked.
Madison Thorne Grey
#94. I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
Catherine The Great
#95. Deep down I think I may be just like everyone else. And do you know what, Harry?"
"No sir."
"That bothers me.
Joe R. Lansdale
#96. I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.
David Gemmell
#97. Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.
Kid Cudi
#98. If I can't be personal, I don't want to argue," said his hostess categorically. "I may be missing your points, but you're much too busy dodging mine.
Dorothy Dunnett
#99. Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.
Ben Harper
#100. I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.
Shaun Hick
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