All Quotes

A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.
‐‐ James J. Gibson

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
‐‐ Mary Kay Ash

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere

A Mediterranean city is really my culture.
‐‐ Zinedine Zidane

A melody is not merely something you can hum.
‐‐ Aaron Copland

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.
‐‐ Rokia Traore

A member must say that he is a member of the Unification Church and that he is the follower of Sun Myung Moon. If he doesn't have the courage to say it, he is not worthy of me.
‐‐ Sun Myung Moon

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.
‐‐ Emma Donoghue

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.
‐‐ Mitch Albom

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.
‐‐ Richard Hell

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
‐‐ Dean Acheson

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
‐‐ Edward de Bono

A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces are designed to release young audiences into the story and then creep up with the real Shakespeare, almost by stealth.
‐‐ Tim Crouch

A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.
‐‐ David Bergen

A mentor enables a person to achieve. A hero shows what achievement looks like.
‐‐ John C. Mather

A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm's length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself.
‐‐ Hugh Carey

A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six.
‐‐ Mickey Drexler

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
‐‐ James Cash Penney

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
‐‐ Joshua Reynolds

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
‐‐ Friedrich Schiller

A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.
‐‐ Carly Fiorina

A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.
‐‐ Alton Brown

A merry companion is as good as a wagon.
‐‐ John Lyly

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.
‐‐ King Solomon

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.
‐‐ King Solomon

A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.
‐‐ Jane Campion

A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.
‐‐ Bill Gothard

A message to women in general is be happy with yourself first. Be sure that you take care of yourself and find yourself. Be comfortable! And you will be way more appealing. Do what's best for you, and everything will fall into place.
‐‐ Raven Goodwin

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.
‐‐ Henry Markram

A Miami must-have is the trendy Panther Coffee in Wynwood. I like Alma Mexicana for the ever-popular breakfast burrito. For out-of-this-world Cuban food, the Cubano at Little Bread Cuban Sandwich Co. will satisfy your craving. My friends all love Shorty's Bar-B-Q for the mouth-watering corn on the cob and BBQ, of course.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

A Michigan man is going to coach Michigan.
‐‐ Bo Schembechler

A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
‐‐ Kara Swisher

A middle child, I was born in the depths of the Great Depression. My dad and mom were factory workers, struggling to make ends meet.
‐‐ Dennis L. McKiernan

A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.
‐‐ Eliot Engel

A MIDI file contains coded instructions to play a particular series of notes on an electronic music synthesizer. A MIDI file is more like a piano roll in a player piano than any type of sound recording.
‐‐ Charles Petzold

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is one of George Balanchine's greatest creations - and one of the greatest of all story ballets.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
‐‐ Dante Alighieri

A military base in a country like Afghanistan is also a web of relationships, a hub for the local economy, and a key player in the political ecosystem.
‐‐ Anand Gopal

A military career offers the stability many South Korean women crave.
‐‐ Kim Young-ha

A military childhood in the 1950s was very much informed by WWII. My brothers and I often heard stories from our dad - and from other kids - about things that had happened to their dads. We constantly played war games and, nearly every Saturday, saw a different WWII movie at the post theater.
‐‐ Mary Pope Osborne

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
‐‐ Jalal Talabani

A military leader should always understand, of all human endeavors... the one that's the most unpredictable and the most costly is warfare.
‐‐ Martin Dempsey