All Quotes

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.
‐‐ Joy Williams

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.
‐‐ Leland Stanford

Many writers were picked on as children. Why? Because they were weird from the get-go. They were often to be found at the back of the class smelling erasers, or talking to caterpillars, or walking down the street with an encyclopedia balanced on their head.
‐‐ Heather O'Neill

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was all finished, I would give it to my agent and say, 'Well, here's a novel; sell it if you can.' And they would do that, and it was good because I never had anyone looking over my shoulder.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin

Many years ago, Bill Gates said that one day we'd be able to click on the shoes of a character in a TV show and buy them online. Whether that happens or not, are you thinking about new ways to combine your assets in programming, customer knowledge, and technology?
‐‐ Brian L. Roberts

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

Many years ago, I think I got my first insight on how an incredibly diverse team can work together and do astonishing things, and not just misunderstand each other and fight.
‐‐ John P. Kotter

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.
‐‐ Diane Ladd

Many years ago, I was actually hired to write the sequel to 'Independence Day.' And I wrote a sequel. And they paid me a boatload of money to go write this thing. And after I wrote it, I read it and I gave them back the money and I said, 'Look, this is an okay movie I just wrote. But it's not worthy of the sequel to 'Independence Day.'
‐‐ Dean Devlin

Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again.
‐‐ Jeremy Bulloch

Many years ago, in the throes of my struggles on the PGA Tour, I had difficulty even getting into pro-ams. I needed money, so I put together a 45-minute magic show I'd perform at corporate events surrounding the tournament.
‐‐ Gary McCord

Many years ago, it was my opportunity to serve as president of the Canadian Mission. There we had a branch with very limited priesthood. We always had a missionary presiding over the branch. I received a strong impression that we needed to have a member of the branch preside there.
‐‐ Thomas S. Monson

Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
‐‐ Asa Gray

Many years ago, large packs of wolves roamed the countryside in Ukraine, making travel in that part of the world very dangerous. These wolf packs were fearless. They were not intimidated by people nor by any of the weapons available at that time. The only thing that seemed to frighten them was fire.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many years ago, when I lived in the mini-Siberia they call East Anglia, I was awakened in the early hours by the sound of a pantechnicon being loaded. Peeping through the curtains, I observed the grocer doing a runner with all his chattels and his family.
‐‐ Clive Sinclair

Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.
‐‐ Fritz Sauckel

Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.
‐‐ Donald Hall

Many years in New York has made me urban, and I won't eat my chicken because I met him personally!
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini

Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.
‐‐ Tom Vilsack

Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money.
‐‐ James Rosenquist

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.
‐‐ Dennis Banks

Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
‐‐ Jackson Katz

Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism.
‐‐ Najib Razak

Many young people don't know what Versace represent. I want to show what makes Versace an iconic brand.
‐‐ Donatella Versace

Many young people now end a discussion with the supposedly definitive and unanswerable statement that such is their opinion, and their opinion is just as valid as anyone else's. The fact is that our opinion on an infinitely large number of questions is not worth having, because everyone is infinitely ignorant.
‐‐ Theodore Dalrymple

Mao Zedong was a revolutionary. He made a revolution.
‐‐ Amiri Baraka

Maoists want a directly elected president, but this will give birth to an autocrat.
‐‐ Sushil Koirala

Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.
‐‐ Malcolm Fraser

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.
‐‐ Jon Bon Jovi

Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We're working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps.
‐‐ Jack Dangermond

Mapping does not purport to create an idealistic vision where all teachers agree, love one another, and gather around a campfire and sing 'Curriculum Kumbaya.' What it can develop is a sense of place, of respect, and of new grounds for discussion, disputes, and direction.
‐‐ Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.
‐‐ Jerzy Kosinski

Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a 'Gilmore Girls' episode, and I thought I was right for it.
‐‐ Rami Malek

Marathon Day in Boston and all of Massachusetts, it's Patriot's Day, and it's a big celebration for us. It's a day when we're kind of the whole world's city there.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

Marathon runners set explicit goals.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.
‐‐ Ryan Reynolds

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

Marathons are good training goals.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.
‐‐ Lance Armstrong

Marathons don't come to you overnight.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

Marble is not alike in all countries.
‐‐ Vitruvius

'Marbles' really took so much and such a thorough effort from me that I was so happy to tie that up and have it feel satisfying.
‐‐ Ellen Forney

Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's never really been addressed, as I haven't had the time to go out and tout the songs.
‐‐ Peter Hammill

Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.
‐‐ Tony Visconti

Marc Cherry is so good at writing himself into a corner, then writing himself out of that corner. It's really fun to watch that.
‐‐ Grant Show