List of Topics starting with [M]

I love language, and I love the failure of language.

Criticism is not religion, and by no process can it be substituted for it. It is not the critic's eye, but the child's heart, that ...

Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure. I ...

My name is Monica, and I am not submissive. I stand six feet tall in heels. I am descended from one of the greatest writers ...

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long ...

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part ...

What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.

It all starts from the lyric with me. If I work really hard on the lyric and get it right, then it will tell me ...

Odd names: Winter, Autumn - they almost sound as if someone just made them up. - Dubb

Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion.

I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I ...

It's not what you learn but it's how you learn that make the difference

If prostitution is the oldest profession, then love is the world's oldest problem, and it's a dodgy sport.

I'm beginning to think a dictionary would have been a far more advantageous birthday gift for you.""More advantageous than being eaten alive by a giant, ...

Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.

I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I ...

And I also know that loving someone - even when it's scary, even when there are consequences - is never the wrong thing to do.

Nobody is born as a teacher and only a few die as a teacher!

It's abominable, and it's a disgrace to a great democracy to see what's happened in our country. The main reason for that has been the ...

It was a mystery why the army bothered with a signal communication system when its men were so good at gossip.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work ...

I'm not here to try and replace anyone or compete with anyone.

I stare into his eyes, I shake my head, sorry for the chance we lost. The chance we maybe never had. But not for saving ...

The relationship you have with your mother is like nothing else. They do kind of know everything about you, even though they don't confront it. ...

Even when I use a word in the wrong order in a sentence, I get mad. It's very stressful.

If there were more "Planned Parenthoods," there'd be fewer abortions.

My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are.

If you close your eyes when you sing in Latin, and if you stand right at the back so you can keep one hand against ...

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen ...

In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

Music hath its land of origin; and yet it is also its own country, its own sovereign power, and all may take refuge there, and ...

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

Chiropractic solved my neck and shoulder pains; it put me back on my feet. I think chiropractic is great!

We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be ...

If you have something you do that's unique, you just end up in situations. Your art can take you to places without you working too ...

Love and abuse cannot co-exist.

I remembered the dim winter light, the smell of damp earth and leaves, the eeriness that always attaches to a place once settled and civilized, ...

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless.

If you have bought one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's equations on the front, you may have to worry about its going out of style, ...

Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.

And like most of her peers, Barbara Ann has a French postal worker's sense of divine entitlement when it comes to her hours.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring ...

I dress like an old woman in my real life. If you're having conversations with people, you don't want them to remember you as the ...

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is ...

You can't expect people to do the right thing or else they will go to hell. We are already in hell!

People need to deviate away from the role of imitation, and start filling the role of innovation ...

When I turned 16, I thought I was a man. I needed the money. When you don't have it, crazy thoughts go through your mind.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one ...

I am beloved by millions.

Our team, because of our depth and our talent, we were able to do that, and it turned into a special season as a result.

Clearly, Mayor Bloomberg did some things right. I think he did a very good job on public health. He did a very good job on ...

If one doesn't have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, ...

Fifty points from Gryffindor for lateness, I think," said Snape. "And, let me see, another twenty for your Muggle attire. You know, I don't believe ...

History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would ...

What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel ...

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Emmy has embarked on her journey to enrich the world with smiles. They are free, healthy, and often, very contagious.

Cast on a multiple of 4 sts Row 1: *K3, P1, repeat from * across row Row 2: K2, P1, *K3, P1, repeat from * ...

Did my good deed for the day. Still not close to heaven, but it's something.

Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us.

Each year we buy stocks and they go up, we sell them and then we try to buy something cheaper.

So maybe when we can say things, when we can write the words, when we can express how it feels, we aren't so helpless.

The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between ...

But the coconut is also a symbol of resilience, Samar. Even in the conditions where there's very little nourishment and even less nurturance, it flourishes, ...

Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.

A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a ...

I sit on it's edge, looking down at the man who feels like he just materialized out of nowhere. My head still swims with euphoria ...

In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball.

Everyone knows the principles of Beautiful life but,only few of them have opportunities to follow them.

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable ...

Until box lacrosse grows in the United States, it'll continue to be this way.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to ...

I will find strength in what remains.

I turn and run, watching my feet trample a massacre of weeds. I mourn them. The only thing that grows is dandelions in the cracks ...

It has always been possible to say "The moral emptiness of today's world is appalling."

Those who wash regularly should not stoop to democracy.

If you dread ending up in the bunker, practice these tricky out-of-the-sand shots until you master them. Think of it as insurance - we all ...

Finish want you started, Regret will hit you harder when you didn't even try to start.

It is because the young cannot recognize the youth of the aged, and the old will not acknowledge the experience of the young, that they ...

Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of ...

The thing about being catapulted into a whole new lifeor at least, shoved up so hard against someone else's life that you might as well ...

For people who want to be proactive about their health, there is a lot of information that we can provide. If you are going to ...

The workman made it, therefore it is not God. To represent an infinite Spirit by an image, and the great Creator by the image of ...

Take a moment to gather your thoughts about your situation and ask, "What would Love do?" Then channel that energy in your words and actions.

As he put in his studs he realized that he was enjoying life as he would probably never enjoy it again. Everything was hallowed by ...

In my experience, the words "now just calm down" almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to.

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.

It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

Looking after the baby is like taking some sort of terrifying, never-ending practical exam. All she does is respond to what the baby is doing. ...

Mr. Keith, by means of some mysterious formula, soon procured two seats in the front row, the occupants of which smilingly took their places among ...

Myth: A stake through the heart will kill a vampire.Truth: Well, duh. It would kill anyone.

When emotion is entirely left out of the reasoning picture, as happens in certain neurological conditions, reason turns out to be even more flawed than ...

A novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just ...

I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.