List of Topics starting with [M]

The fact that mammalian crying serves as a cue for maternal support, rather than as a dinner bell, is a major evolutionary difference.

I am inexpressibly grateful that the Lord of my life has granted to me in such abundance these opportunities to take part in the life ...

I love David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive;' such a wonderful movie.

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite ...

To me, Modest Mouse is one of the best bands ever. I actually wasn't surprised that they made it big. It's always weird to see ...

When you talk to young girls these days about their role modles, very few mention a chemist like Madame Curie or an astrophysicist and astronaut ...

I really enjoy being outside in L.A. because it's so warm and sunny.

Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the ...

Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to ...

Writing is thinking in slow motion.

The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does ...

Three things to never leave home without: your keys, birdseed for the birds, and your mala beads to chant through difficulties.

Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with ...

I've read a couple of reviews that say I'm getting harder in my old age but I don't think that's true at all. I think ...

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We're in a very self-destructive state where we're addicted to ...

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and ...

Intelligence without wisdom brings destruction.

Strike with the soul, and you will never miss.

I started doing independent films. My first one was 'Miss Bala,' which was very well-received at film festivals.

Woman has so long been subject to the disabilities and restrictions with which her progress has been embarrassed that she has become enervated, her mind ...

Watching people party is cool, but I don't love watching people get super-duper trashed and annoying. I feel protected behind my booth - away from ...

People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear ...

Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I ...

Wanna play a joke on your chiropractor? The next time he starts working on you, go limp and soil yourself.

Oh, for fuck's sake. The Chevy Matiz - whose idea was it? Four doors, shaped like a shoe, and all the reliability of his grandmother's ...

(B)ut who can start over when memories never leave you? - Ruth Mendenberg

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

While some American education experts may say that all learning should be 'fun,' I personally believe that the word "fun' is the wrong word to ...

In the United States, the most recent survey by the Federal Reserve, which covers the same years, indicates that the top decile own 72 percent ...

If you can live the beauty of the misty mornings, you are the king, you are the queen!

Why not remove his desk, bring in a treadmill, hang a carrot from the ceiling and stop all pretense already.

I'm not a 'Steel Magnolias' kind of girl. I'm kind of like a guy. My favorite movie is 'Caddyshack.'

Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.

I'm not sure what kind of love you mean, baby, but if you mean do I want you to be with me forever, that I ...

I need to be gone before she gets up. Seeing her will only make it harder to stay away from her. A man can only ...

Everything is flowing. The Great River of Time takes everything with it, and nothing in this world remains unchanged or stabilized.

Facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery.

When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.

I've done some version of that Minnesota accent - that Midwestern accent - in sketch comedy for years. It's the quickest way to symbolize you're ...

Millie told me once that the ability to devastate is what makes a song beautiful. Maybe that's what makes life beautiful too. The ability to ...

May the sun bring opportunities

He holds up two fingers - his pointer and middle - places them under his eyes, and then points in front of us.

Invisible Man. A Passage to India. The Magnificent Ambersons.

My work is whatever I want it to be, and I report to no one regularly. The head librarian the man in charge of the ...

Can we be blamed for feeling we're too old to change? Too scared of disappointment to start it all again? We get up every morning, ...

Whether or not Afghanistan would be a peaceful nation-state had we not gone into Iraq I doubt. Afghanistan is going to be Afghanistan, no matter ...

Money is merely a reward for solving problems.

There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into ...

We didn't crumble after 9/11. We didn't falter after the Boston Marathon. But we're America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. ...

The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being said ...

I didn't know how to communicate my suffering to anyone else. My anger was returning. I was screaming for help, but the language I was ...

We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity, ...

As people become multisensory, they begin to realize that their lives are meaningful, that there's a purpose to all of their experiences - to the ...

I'd love to sign a contract for the soundtracks to every Wes Anderson movie, you know what I'm saying? Things like that, I have no ...

I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team ...

Man with the Muckrake

It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.

Though it seems like time itself moves more slowly when you're in the presence of people who actually see and hear you. There's a certain ...

To read of the unrelenting coarseness and brutality of the boy's father is lowering to the spirit, as is the shame he felt at his ...

You don't think much of the individual, because you don't think you've hit him and you hope that he will bail out or something; it's ...

Now we're going to save a bunch of dirty meatsacks from a bunch of dirty cannibals? Why don't we rescue some orphaned kittens and put ...

I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length ...

Who's got no thumbs and totally made best friends with a dragon? This guy!" She

I'm a little panicky when I realize he's not here. It's a lot easier to push down my doubt when he's with me. When I ...

Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.

Never boyfriends? You've NEVER been in LOVE?"As I shake my head no, I look out the window, yearning to see Cole's sun-filled eyes again looking ...

And so we go and I meet his parents. And it's a very strange thing meeting your girlfriend's boyfriend's parents for the first time. Part ...

I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when ...

I turn my head so that he doesn't see my smile and secretly curse him for making me feel special.

Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a ...

Roarke wondered if she thought of how many more would be hers - victims and killers. And knew, as he knew her, she did.

All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.

You were born not to be just fine

The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or ...

God knows I tried my best to learn the ways of this world, even had inklings we could be glorious; but after all that's happened, ...

My first hip-hop performance was at Carnegie Hall with Wyclef, ... I got a little feature and he announced me as the 'hip-hop violinist.' The ...

Atheism robs death of meaning. And if death has no meaning, how can life ultimately have meaning? For death is the end of life. Here

Pack them into a small round mold, or form a ball and flatten it to resemble a hockey puck (or a baby Brie if you're ...

God turns clouds inside out to make fluffy beds for the dogs in Dog Heaven, and when they are tired from running and barking and ...

The premise of Nossiter in 'Mondovino' would have been a lot more accurate when I started writing about wine in 1978 than when the movie ...

Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was ...

Sometimes we need to step away from our current reality in order to truly appreciate it.

To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion, ...

Disneyland. The world's biggest people trap, built by a mouse.

I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were ...

Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you.

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden ...

There's a gray area between Conservative and Orthodox people, for whom you don't screw around with the mezuzah, you don't mess with the holy melodies.

The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.

What should be shrunken must first be stretched.

You keep meaning to cultivate an expertise in spectator sport. More and more you realize that sports trivia is crucial to male camaraderie. You keenly ...

They had found two of his uncle's men in the wood, slain, but the corpses had risen in the chill of night. Jon's burnt fingers ...

I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no ...

I tell myself that some names can be mistakes, like Mxyplyzyk, a store in New York that lost customers because few could spell its name ...

I received a call from Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Eric Mangini. They asked me if I was ready to become a ...

Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present ...

The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes.

Dream big dreams, but never forget that realistic short-term goals are the keys to your success.