A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
‐‐ Earl Weaver
A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
‐‐ Earl Weaver
A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.
‐‐ Dan Quisenberry
A manifesto is different from a magazine.
‐‐ Charlotte Casiraghi
A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.
‐‐ Hamdi Ulukaya
A marine ecologist is a scientist who studies the many species that live underwater and how they interact with each other and with humans.
‐‐ Enric Sala
A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.
‐‐ Gerhard Schroder
A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class.
‐‐ Marcy Kaptur
A marriage can go wrong at any time.
‐‐ Trinny Woodall
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
‐‐ J. Paul Getty
A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.
‐‐ Jessica Simpson
A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.
‐‐ Daphne Guinness
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
‐‐ Queen Victoria
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
‐‐ Andre Maurois
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
‐‐ Jean Rostand
A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.
‐‐ Simon Hoggart
A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make reasonably, as has a married man, or any other man.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner
A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.
‐‐ Sol Wachtler
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran
A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.
‐‐ George Edward Woodberry
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
‐‐ Anna Seward
A mask of gold hides all deformities.
‐‐ Thomas Dekker
A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
‐‐ Barnabe Barnes
A massive state and federal effort, the likes of which we've never seen is going to be needed. We can do it for tsunami victims half a world away. We can do it for our own citizens.
‐‐ Al Roker
A massive stroke may kill you instantly, while a series of mini-strokes may disable and kill you over several years.
‐‐ Michael Greger
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
‐‐ Patricia Neal
A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
‐‐ A. J. P. Taylor
A master's is a lot more work than my first degree, but I'm an athlete who knows what she wants. I made up my mind, and I'm determined that this is what I'm going to do.
‐‐ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
A masterpiece doesn't push you around. It lets you make up your own mind about what it means - and change it as often as you like.
‐‐ Terry Teachout
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf
A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
‐‐ Vladimir Nabokov
A mate of mine said recently said a lot of stuff sounds like you're listening to it outside, but also like you're surrounded by it, and I think that's quite similar.
‐‐ Sean Booth
A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.
‐‐ Sam Worthington
A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
‐‐ Bonnie Jo Campbell
A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.
‐‐ David Hilbert
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
‐‐ Paul Erdos
A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.
‐‐ Stefan Banach
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
‐‐ G. H. Hardy
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
‐‐ G. H. Hardy
A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse.
‐‐ Thabo Mbeki
A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie
A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents.
‐‐ David Del Tredici
A Maybelline New York woman is strong and confident - I love that attitude.
‐‐ Frida Gustavsson
A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens.
‐‐ John Hickenlooper
A meal can be an erotic experience in itself.
‐‐ Alex Comfort
A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.
‐‐ Bjornstjerne Bjornson
A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.
‐‐ Roy H. Williams
A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.
‐‐ Delia Smith