List of Topics starting with [M]

A square is also an organism, not just a work of art and architecture [Michael Kimmelman, "Culture: Power of the Place"].

I want to be someone who is respected and not just in terms of my music. I want to be respected in terms of the ...

I never wanted to do away with my intensity because I felt it was a gift that helped put fuel in my engine, giving me ...

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs, the GREs, the ...

I'm a bit of a gadget freak.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.

The pull of Guyland reminds us that women cannot accomplish this transformation alone. In the book's final chapter I argue that just as men need ...

The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.

Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?

Whatever happens, love that.

Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really ...

The gift of faith given to your children will last longer than any monetary gift.

Twenty-six letters: Marjorie Morningstar or Ulysses. The man-made world means exactly that. There isn't an inch of it that doesn't have to be dealt with, ...

Every need got an ego to feed.

Maybe war makes you value things and people more than you did when there was Peace and you knew there would never be a shortage?

The last thing I want is for people to go through the motions in life. We're all meant to do different things, but there's a ...

Milton stood among his staff, shaking hands, memorising names. He already knew them in a way - he understood this breed backward and had foreseeen ...

Every decision in life; whether good or bad, teaches us a lesson for the next decisions that we will someday meet again.

Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.

There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best ...

Go then, mere jaan." My life. Because that was what she was. The best part of him. "Just remember - the next ten or so ...

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool ...

To pray in the name of Christ is to pray as one who is at one with Christ, whose minid is the mind of Christ, ...

Hard to remember these days that there was a time you had to wait for the ink and paper reviews to see your work excoriated. ...

You have to know that as long as you love who you are - your morals, your values, that type of stuff - you're OK.

US is a very religious country. Separation of church and state is part of our credo, but that it is hard to understand since our ...

There is no hell. The Witnesses believe hell is a mistranslation of Gehenna, which was an ancient garbage dump. They say that nonbelievers simply die ...

A Mindful nation is not the outcome of ball-full people.

To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.

But we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation-liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so ...

Both religiousness and lawlessness share the same problems: overconfidence and unrighteousness. "Why do bad things happen to good people?" we might ask - the very ...

... unpacked her books, her sweet delight in happier days, and her soothing resource in the hours of moderate sorrow: but there were hours when ...

Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. ...

People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just the way human beings work. ...

Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.

I am not the Hero of this story Bob is~ Aarush Kashyap

Old carts can be repainted but they still keep moving in the same old ruts

The image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art plastic, musical, poetic, balletic serves to hold the reality itself for our labile ...

I read Hesse's Steppenwolf thrice. The first time I was enchanted, the second time disappointed, the third time appalled.

The hallowing of God's Name is the END toward which His Kingdom coming and the accomplishment of His will are among the MEANS.

Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story

Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn ...

I tried making an album six years ago. It was just horrific. Trust me, it's smashed into smithereens. I paid big money to silence that ...

To minimize hatred and oppression, our love roots must be deep and solid.

That wild word, "Moor Eeffoc," is the motto of all effective realism; it is the masterpiece of the good realistic principle - the principle that ...

It takes two years for the salt to reach the center of a wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.

My milkshake brings all the gods to the yard.

I was once in a bar with a friend of mine, we were having a drink and a bunch of people walked in and they ...

Our parents are really weird," he said. "Because they love us? That's not so weird." "It's how they love us that's weird.

They keep track of time. Sometimes things happen and you feel that you need to mark them down.

Racquetball is the only sport where simultaneously you can be looking at the ball and it'll hit you in the back of the head at ...

Good thing it's a fight and not a modeling contest or you'd be f#cked.

Art is a tool that isnt used enough to effect change.

I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly sorry for misleading ...

I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer; I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and computers. I'm much ...

Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated ...

Regardless of whatever "rights" we think we may have, giving the Lord a bad testimony will never be one of them.5

If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to ...

The thing which Reagan did, which was great, was he won the people. He marginalized the media. And that's what you need, an intellectual agility.

In 1962, President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being the first country to reach the moon and the dangers of ...

That's right!" agreed Majikthise. "You'll have a national Philosophers' strike on your hands!" The

The time for war has not yet come, but it will come, and that soon. And when it does come, my advice is to draw ...

Sparkling diamond in my future.

Meow" means "woof" in cat.

Magic and miracle they are nothing but manipulation of sight and heart.

And it occurred to me, standing there, just breathing with her, quiet settling around us, that those might be the three most beautiful words in ...

Nightingales sang about her wherever she went.

His proxy turned and thrashed in his sleep, but Knox didn't wake him. His dreams, like everyone Else's, were his own. So were his nightmares.

Soul Mountain, the story of one man's quest for inner peace and freedom.

We spent a lot of money on buying clothes, but we spend our best times naked..

If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing ...

The unconscious is our best collaborator.

At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to ...

I would love for women to be focused on maximum wage, and I have fought to be recognized with equality for a long time.

I'm naturally guarded because of the way I was brought up. But I understand people are interested in who I am.

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound ...

Who anger, nor joy, nor pride, nor false modesty, nor stupefaction, nor vanity, Can draw away from the high ends of life, is ever considered ...

This, Barrett Meeks, is your work. You witness, and compile. You persevere.

For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come ...

I'm not a big prank guy, because I don't like them done to me. I've been on movies sets where one guys goes into his ...

Right. And I'm Mary Poppins. Wait while I get my umbrella, so I can beat you to death with it for never giving me a ...

Can guys get PMS?""More like MBHS," Gabi replies. "Male Butt-Hole Syndrome. It's an epidemic.

It's okay that I got sick, I suddenly realize. If Lyme hadn't taken me down so radically, I wouldn't have learned about stillness. I would ...

Coitus is random, children are definite.

To write a book is to risk being shot at in public.

There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.

Gone too from the world, Averroes and Moses Maimonides,

But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways ...

Of course, I prefer organic farming to chemical-dependent farming, but sometimes absolutist organic prescriptions go too far. I don't even rule out the possibility of ...

Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.

We went from crop to crop, field to field. And my father had that army truck, a 1940s army truck from Fort Bliss, El Paso.

One missed e-mail, untracked commitment, or decision avoided can have hugely magnified consequences.

Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation - ...

Believe everything you read

There's always less to do than you think. If there's more to do than you think, then do that also.

For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.