List of Topics starting with [M]

The first bout of warm spring rain caused normally respectable women to pull off their stockings and run through muddy puddles alongside their children.

If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.

Are you quick to listen? Listening is an expression of humility and genuine concern for others. ... .If we want to truly know and understand ...

She rode at the head of a shining line of black limos like the head raven in a convocation of black birds. Her husband had ...

Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the latter's effortless wit, ...

If you need to talk about your childhood, you're safe with me. If you need to break into a million pieces, I'm right here, Lev. ...

Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.

I mean, sometimes I wonder why God would grant a favor if trouble's just waiting around the corner? It feels disingenuous. If it's fate, then ...

Neither in theory nor in practice does one farmer in a hundred realize how important it is to cultivate, cultivate, and cultivate.

Idiosyncrasy than

I'm not here to be good. I'm here to be great,

Have you gone crazy?""Have you gone crazy, Master.

Be aware of your addiction to the addicted.

None of my family had anything to do with show business, my life was totally foreign to them.

You are, and always have been, the one person in my life who has the ability to destroy me. For years, I clung to you, ...

When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad. People ...

If they keep booing, and we keep winning, I don't care.

Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.

I thought I could do this alone.I demand not to do this alone.

Talk to people about what they want to hear and they'll stay for more.Talk to them about what you want them to hear and they'll ...

I am never going to be less sensitive so that you feel better about being judgmental toward me.

You either choose to help others, or you don't choose to help others ... THERE IS NO IN-BETWEEN!

If you see 'The Shining' with Jack Nicholson, you remember him not only because he is Jack Nicholson and because he does a wonderful job, ...

Don't pull down the blinds. I feel fine. I want the sunlight to greet me!

The dangers gather as the treasures rise.

If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be a human being ...

When you look at a corpse you can always sense your own breath better.

If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in ...

As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977, the bow-wave of publicity for the first 'Star Wars' ...

It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

Call them robbers and cutthroatswere they not amiable enough when they had sufficient to fill their bellies? Something was out of joint in a world ...

Want to try it?" Dad offered, patting the arm of the chair. "Fifteen different kinds of massage. It analyzes your back muscles and makes recommendations. ...

I forgot how fucking gorgeous you are when you fall apart for me.

Love is like a man who doesn't know his own strength: he means well, but sometimes he crushes you.

At the last parent visitation night I'd sorta accidentally watched a majorly nightmarish scene between Aphrodite and her parents. Her dad's the mayor of Tulsa. ...

Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

[...] Jace said "I like Mangoes.

He was the worst kind of wrong. He was so wrong it felt right, and that made me feel completely out of control.

We talk about democracy as if it's a safeguard for individual rights ... Instead, it's become our way of intruding on rights, allegedly in the ...

I have often been mildly amused when I think that the great American novel was not written about New England or Chicago. It was written ...

I don't hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime.

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. ...

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.

More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly.

The exorcist had a slightly Australian tinge to his voice, and the laid-back, whatever-comes-next attitude of a man who had suddenly realised two degrees short ...

The day I notice a cyclist obey a stop sign is the day I'll stop enjoying watching them bounce off my hood.

I looked, and saw: before her, cast from an unseen heavenly mirror, stood the reflection of herself, and beside it a form of splendent beauty. ...

When you judge a woman by her appearance, it doesn't define her, it defines you. Ladies, never allow yourself to be defined by someone's inability ...

Love is a strange feeling! And you cannot understand what happens to you when it does happen to you.

And it occurs to me that there's no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it's just a matter of tense: past-dead and ...

She looked at the knife, her throat tight with emotion. No roses or rings with him, but a knife with feathers carved into the handle. ...

Be accepting. Of everything. People's differences, their similarities, their choices, their personalities. Sometimes it takes a variety to make a good collection. The same goes ...

Freedom, my friend, can only be found in His grace.

There are chakras in the hands; you've seen me use those quite frequently when I meditate. I project the shakti, the kundalini, through the chakras ...

My mom is such a big supporter of mine. She still is, and always was. So I got the sort of encouragement from that side ...

Don't waste your time with people you know are only out to use you!

I forgot he [Barack Obama] was black tonight for an hour.

When eight row together with swing the boat becomes the ninth rower.

Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts. - BENJAMIN DISRAELI

I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.

And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few ...

I don't get any dates; that's the thing.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her ...

Greed is too flimsyto flawed

Nowadays I'm more interested in what you'd call 'alternative.' Lately we've been listening to a lot of Mumford & Sons, and Jenny Owen Youngs. I'm ...

If a poor house is well kept, or a poor girl well groomed, there is elegance if not beauty. If good people should come upon ...

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

Don't put your life on hold for someone, or you'll wake up at forty-two with an empty house and a terrifying sense of freedom and ...

The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish mass ...

Because of their historical theory of the "alienation of labor" (that the worker must become less and less in control of the work of his ...

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.

I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. ...

Take the first step... and the next will be revealed.

For so long, I've only had one-sided feelings for other people. I've completely forgotten how good it feels to be loved.

[Faith] was something other than an intellectual exercise. There were no words, no lofty concepts, that could take away the pain. Faith was living with ...

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and ...

I think that all countries that participate in multilateral institutions see the institutions as a way of advancing what they view as their national interests ...

Man-made fabrics? What provenance do they have? A squirt of gloop into a petri dish? Strands of plastic spun in sterile laboratories? They are but ...

Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint.

Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you ...

If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever.

In our twenty first century social media world, people are so eager to have likes from friend on social media for what they do; their ...

There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.

I'm completely happy and fulfilled in my personal life.

I sit and reach for the computer.I look at its battery.I envy how often it dies.

They were different kinds of heartless and Neil, for all his problems connecting with other people, didn't want to be a monster.

Do we really have reason to believe that an objective reality exists?

You must look at the things that God looks at, you must see what God sees

Parents, preachers, and politicians think rock music is the source of young people's despair. They don't understand it's just a reflection. They also forget that ...

Be careful not to trip over the ottoman.

People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such ...

Reagan understood an important distinction that (Lyndon) Johnson never grasped: being in control and being successful aren't always the same thing.

Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the ...

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

He was a prosperous old bachelor, and his open window looked into a prosperous little garden and orchard, and there was a prosperous iron safe ...

The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?

My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit.