List of Topics starting with [M]

We started out as far to the left as we could.

I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.

Terrorism really doesn't strike at physical structures as much as it strikes at ideas, and its main fear is ideas. And cartoonists are particularly effective ...

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.

The nurse pointed out that identical twins were already clones in a sense, and Mother Emmanuel suggested that the soul to worry about belonged to ...

Gemma walked up behind her and did the crazy sign, which since she was a psychiatrist seemed very unprofessional.

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed ...

I want to see how far I can train. I have to see how far my body will go.

Why do you like to cuss?" "Everybody likes to cuss." "I don't." "They don't call you Mr. Excitement for nothing.

I could be described, sure, with words like cool guy or, again, cool incarnate, rebel, badass, whatever, but I viewed these as just descriptive words ...

There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life.

Yet if it is the swordsmen who rule us in truth, why do we pretend our kings hold the power?

Don't be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you!

Your monkey was looking under the stall doors in the ladies' room,' I told Diesel.'That's my boy,' Diesel said.

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

Most of the software I sell runs on mainframes and supercomputers, and is used by multinational corporations and governments. You may not get to see ...

I think musically, there's always the stuff you're into that you've always been into but every once in a while there's a new band that ...

Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself.

I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound.

An actor can play two or three lines where he says one thing, but plays the opposite. That's the most important moving part of a ...

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I ...

Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past ...

There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish ...

He studied me for a long moment. He had always watched me this way, as if I were an equation that didn't quite tally.

Pitting your dream against someone else's is a fantastic way to get discouraged and depressed.

You mean on YouTube?" "No, I mean I was watching the game when you got laid out. Hardest hit I've ever seen. I don't know ...

We are all winners when we say yes

Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind.

- ' That's nonsense young one, Your dreams are not very logical ' - ' The only non-sense I see here, is a living a ...

I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in ...

Along a cobbled street, the stones sheened with a soft, early spring rain. On either side the gutters ran with an infant chuckle and gurgle, ...

Dreaming big is always a good way to go about things.

I couldn't possibly repeat the words he used .They were so unsettling that I sent Nancy indoors to find my spectacles.

The Noble Lie - the idea that men are brothers and are created equal.

There is something good about the character of Gomez. I wouldn't trade the association with him for anything or any role that I might have ...

The mice have gnawed at it, and sharper teeth than teeth of mice have gnawed at me.

I still love you. I will always love you, and that is all that matters. I will forgive you anything, and I will forgive you ...

I'll see you in my dreams.

Coraline had watched all the videos. She was bored with her toys, and she'd read all her books.

Come on, don't look so serious. It's not like it's a Death Note.

In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French cooking, ...

Can I ask what you're reading?" ... She turned the book so the cover faced me. Wuthering Heights. "Have you read it?" She said. I ...

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

I am comfortable in the uncomfortable.

Readers are also not impressed by characters who have so many talents, skills, charm and good looks that they sound annoyingly too good to be ...

A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.

Meredith Combs, the social worker responsible for selecting the stream of adoptive families that gave me back, wanted to talk to me about blame.

There was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them.

Their bodies were so close together that there was no room for real affection.

Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining ...

I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them ...

Real cowboys don't line dance. We like to dance nice and close. Close enough to polish our belt buckles.

Do not become angry and furious ... for those two emotions lead to wickedness, and wickedness leads to the Hellfire.

A balance of giving and receiving is essential to keeping your energy, mood and motivation at a consistently high level.

If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if "Grand Hotel" or "The Bride Wore Red" comes on. I have a ...

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio ...

Life is attention to both the large and the small, little brother. Pay heed to the sun, but watch your feet, or you'll fall ingloriously ...

Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make ...

Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.

Money is attracted to great ideas.

In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary ...

Prayer means keeping company with God who is already present.

God has got everything worked out; He has everything set and in place to make us successful. He knows that if our life is going ...

Your earthly body is after all nothing more than a dress and inside it is a finer dress, and you yourself are in this finer ...

I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.

Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism which is true, but they miss the point. It was ...

And private in his chamber pens himself,Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out,And makes himself an artificial night.Black and portentous must this humor prove

The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought ...

I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be ...

The human feelings, which had never been very deep in him, grew shallower every hour, and every day something more dropped away from the decrepit ...

The dynamic has really changed in the U.S. Americans believe they can be competitive, that they can win medals.

He's still looking in my eyes. Staring me down like he did that dragon, chin tilted and locked. "I'm not the Chosen One," he says.I ...

Yeah! Everything is okay!

The love of booksis for childrenwho glimpse in thema life to come, butI have cometo that life andfeel uneasywith the love of books.This is my ...

Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States

The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child's heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

You don't hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.

The Gospel, because it is a true story, means all the best stories will be proved, in the ultimate sense, true. THE

I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical rules seems even ...

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

There is no such thing as a typical season, not for the Cardinals, not for San Diego, not for Minnesota.

If we don't see real changes in the world, it simply means we are not serious enough about creating those changes. We cannot a!ord to ...

I was very obsessed. I mean, I could tell you the fat content and the calorie content in absolutely anything.

The baby, as I had reason from experience to expect and had in fact prepared my bag for, suffers from dehydration. He's dried up like ...

If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own ...

It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I ...

Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes.

I was thinking how much trouble people get into because they can't keep their mouths shut.

I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.

Demons don't like iron. Or any metal really. Leave it at that. It hurts them.

The current controversy over God's sex doesn't strike anyone as being the least bit primitive. If God is going to be like us, then there ...

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming ...

A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according ...

All poets are religious poets.