All Quotes

The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000.
‐‐ Patch Adams

The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
‐‐ J. Paul Getty

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
‐‐ Tony Robbins

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
‐‐ Carl Jung

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.
‐‐ John George Nicolay

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

The megapixel war in conventional cameras has been a total myth. It's taking us all in the wrong direction. Once a picture goes online, you're throwing away 95 to 98 percent of those pixels.
‐‐ Ren Ng

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.
‐‐ Jonathan Franzen

'The melancholy of all things done' is the way Buzz once described his complete mental breakdown after returning from the moon. Booze. A couple of divorces. A psych ward. Broke. At one point he was selling cars.
‐‐ Jeanne Marie Laskas

The melded nature of space and time is intimately woven with properties of light speed. The inviolable nature of the speed of light is actually, in Einstein's hands, talking about the inviolable nature of cause and effect.
‐‐ Brian Greene

The Melvins are grunge.
‐‐ Adam Jones

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.
‐‐ Henry James Sumner Maine

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now and the market for readers is shrinking, I think we can get rid of many of the memoirs. Another memoir should be awfully well justified before it gets published.
‐‐ Arthur Phillips

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
‐‐ Alexandra Fuller

The Memorial Finder covers the gap. It tells you the specific panel and number where you can find an individual but begins to reveal the connections between the names themselves. As you move around the site itself, a smartphone app will reveal adjacencies as well as the stories behind the names.
‐‐ Jake Barton

The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.
‐‐ Mark Spitz

The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.
‐‐ Patti Davis

The memories that I have are mostly at our old ranch, out in Agoura. We used to go out there every Saturday. I can smell the oak trees. I can see it so clearly.
‐‐ Patti Davis

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
‐‐ Rebecca West

The memory is like a cat scratching my heart.
‐‐ Marina Oswald

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
‐‐ Linus Torvalds

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
‐‐ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
‐‐ Richard M. Nixon

The memory of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire stands as a reminder that legal protections and workplace safety standards were won through a long struggle for social justice and at great human cost.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
‐‐ Louis Armstrong

The men and women at our borders, given adequate resources, are doing an excellent job of keeping us safe.
‐‐ Pete Gallego

The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.
‐‐ Giraldus Cambrensis

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.
‐‐ George W. Bush

The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
‐‐ Felipe VI of Spain

The men and women of our armed forces played an instrumental role in the election process - securing polling sites and providing security - that allowed so many Iraqis the opportunity to vote freely for the first time ever.
‐‐ John M. McHugh

The men and women of the CIA are a national treasure.
‐‐ John O. Brennan

The men and women of today's VA are dedicated to caring for today's veterans and stand ready to provide for our servicemembers who now defend our freedoms and our way of life.
‐‐ Steve Buyer

The men and women on the front lines of the war on terror continue to risk their lives to save ours - and for that we owe them a debt that we can never truly repay. Thanks to their efforts we have made tremendous progress. Yet, the job is not done.
‐‐ Doc Hastings

The men and women who lived through and came to our rescue on 9/11 were not Democrats or Republicans or Independents. They were Americans first and foremost, and so were the people they saved.
‐‐ Kirsten Gillibrand

The men and women who make up a plane's crew put their lives in jeopardy each time they fly. It's our job as much as anyone's to make sure we make it as safe as possible up there for them.
‐‐ Dave Reichert

The men and women who occupied the east coast of North America between 1607 and 1800 have been more closely scrutinized than any other collection of people in American history.
‐‐ Edmund Morgan

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.
‐‐ Bob Riley

The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.
‐‐ Kathleen Sebelius

The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
‐‐ Adelaide Anne Procter

The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion.
‐‐ Ernie Pyle

The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.
‐‐ Colin Hay

The men couldn't understand how I could be so successful and so insecure at the same time - because it doesn't really exist in the same way in the male psyche.
‐‐ Victoria Pendleton

The men have long been unpaid and need relief.
‐‐ John Hawkins

The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same.
‐‐ Elizabeth Wurtzel

The men I find myself attracted to are the ones who don't say anything and are quite shy.
‐‐ Katie Price

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be me.' So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn't realize back then that I was having a defining moment.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

The men I write can be intense, quiet, outspoken and outrageous, deadly or fun... but I would never waste time on a hero who wasn't honorable, who didn't protect those who couldn't protect themselves, who didn't value children and pets, who wasn't independent and unselfish.
‐‐ Lori Foster