Quotes By Popular Topics: [M]
What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in ...
The word for the day is: legs - the phrase for the day is: Spread the word. - Major Mac Pecan
I saw a post the other day, where someone wrote that, when they walk through a library, they touch the spines of all the books ...
They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, ...
Google is a consumer brand and people need to be comfortable. If we were just an advertising brand we wouldn't have the same concerns. We've ...
These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.
Ceasing to live the life of prayer the life of the spirit begins to fail, then those worldly things which are intended to be useful ...
When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, ...
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
I want to see my party achieve victory based on what we have to offer this country and our ability to offer it with integrity. ...
He who has the gold makes the rules.
Freedom is an inmost power. That is why society limits it.
I just want to make scary movies," Jerome replied. "With occasional nudity.
Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the ...
In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.
The way to be invisible - is to truly be imaginary. But since you cannot imagine yourself, you have to clone your imagination into being ...
Someone once noted that Hugh Everett should have been declared a "national resource," and given all the time and resources he needed to develop new ...
The true Christian is one who is kind of sick of this world. If I find anybody who is settled down too snugly into this ...
Hope is the light you follow; faith is believing there is actually a lightthey are the refusal to give up when you have no reason ...
I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in ...
I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
If you work with people that are bringing you up constantly - really bright, really passionate people - you can't help but get pulled in ...
She's my best friend. I'm pretty sure if I committed murder, she'd grab a shovel instead of judging me.
I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and ...
Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to ...
Arious people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature's way
Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones.
I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way ...
The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero ...
I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.
I'm out of bed before the alarm goes off.
I felt as lonely and desolate as a man suddenly fallen from the clouds into an unknown town on the Antarctic Continent built of ice ...
According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.
It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.
The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and what their readers want - and ...
There are certain tuxes you can get away with a black tie, but with others, you'd be dishonoring the workmanship if you didn't wear a ...
I wrote it three times - with a Thesaurus.
As they say - a bird in the hand is worth one in the bush.
But listening to him [Barack Obama] speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single ...
- Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of her sex.
Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent ...
Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable.
There is no primer for being an NFL owner. It is learn-as-you-go.
Nothing good has resulted in primarily following my will.
Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.
Chaos at the bottom means order at the top. Order at the bottom means chaos at the top.
Many researchers say the dominant emotion experienced after loss is yearning or searching. And while you might feel more anger early on, it's accompanied by ...
You only have to bat 1.000 in two things-flying and heart transplants. Everything else, you can go four in five.
Frankly, as secretary of state, if somebody treats you badly because you're a woman, it's your fault - not theirs.
I do realize the impulse to classify people by the food and art they consume is strong - sometimes I have to remind myself not ...
She had tried to make herself like stone, but now the facade was falling away.
It's a tough marketplace right now ... It is very compressed ... A turnaround is likely to happen quicker than before.
And then everyone was dead.
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
Most of the things that truly make us happy in life are hard to count
A radiant glow enveloped Alaura. Soft eruptions of various shades of effervescent green danced in the air and frolicked in the locks of her dark ...
Probably the biggest temptation that young writers face is to be entertaining, to show your bag of tricks and do a bit of tap dancing. ...
You could kill a bloke with rules, Tom knew that. And yet sometimes they were what stood between man and savagery, between man and monsters.
The law is cruel.
To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.
This woman he met was the woman he met and however you try, you cannot unmeet.
A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.
And the storm he was deliberately creating raked over the decimated landscape of his soul, obscuring the ragged, desolated mess he was.
Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.
It [ME] is one of the most disabling diseases that I care for, far exceeding HIV disease except for the terminal stages.
You shouldn't greet monsters that way. It's scary."(Corky from Teresa's Shadow)
I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. - Earl Warren
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds ...
The greatness of our Army has always been the ability of our soldiers who serve in the ranks to rise to the challenge against the ...
The shelf life of my own opinion is somewhere between 3 seconds to 3 months, especially when it is about life and its meaning! ... ...
Bolt actions speak louder than words.
I don't miss the Moon, because I have you.
Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.
It isn't hard to let people die when their deaths give life to something else.
Everett thought about it for a minute before he answered. I go on with my life. I keep coming to meetings. And I love her ...
When I was a kid I never won anything and when I mentioned it to my mom she looked up from her book and pointed ...
I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23.
Your father may never have produced one of those stuffy tomes we call great literature, but he left the world a substantial collection of delightful ...
War, war never changes.
There was nothing exceptional about growing up as the son of a congressman.
There's this charge in the air, and it takes me awhile to get it at first, to really put it all together. It's melancholy.
I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked, and the women are hot. I can't ...
You are not irrevelant. You are not worthless. Your present situation is not your permanent destination.
Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
Success is 90 percent dependent on our mind-set.
Let [Ted] Cruz - let the people go to the courts and see if he's here legitimately. I don't know. I'm not going to get ...
I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often.
I wish I knew exactly who I was. I was talking to a friend earlier about the advice people give each other, advice like "just ...
It was the smile of a man who is able to see, to know and to create the glory of existence. It was the mocking, ...
She reclaimed her virginity?""Leave it, Georgie. She can do whatever she wants with her virginity.""Right," Georgie said, nodding her head. "Right ... It doesn't sound ...
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
Sometimes you have to grit your teeth and remain tenacious and just believe the end will come. Other times it's not an issue. You just ...
Be as happy as you want to be in a world gone mad. Be as safe as you want to be in a world that ...
I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned.
The truth has a certain validity.
I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I simply have to ...
I already feel a bit annoyed at myself for writing screenplays. It's a bit, I don't know, model-singer-dancer-actress that went to a posh school. There's ...