All Quotes

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
‐‐ Mahmoud Darwish

The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.
‐‐ Randy Pausch

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
‐‐ Jose Ortega y Gasset

The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.
‐‐ Jack Schwartz

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
‐‐ Northrop Frye

The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz.
‐‐ John Scofield

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.
‐‐ Moshe Dayan

The method of estimating the potency of insulin solutions is based on the effect that insulin produces upon the blood sugar of normal animals.
‐‐ Frederick Banting

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.
‐‐ Morris Raphael Cohen

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.
‐‐ Robert Baden-Powell

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.
‐‐ Stanley Smith Stevens

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
‐‐ Christian Nestell Bovee

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.
‐‐ Horace Walpole

The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines.
‐‐ Michael Eric Dyson

The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
‐‐ Henry George

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.
‐‐ Elihu Root

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.
‐‐ Paul Dirac

The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
‐‐ Barry Commoner

The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie... keep swinging, baby. And when you have all of that special excellence of the Metropole Orchestra, then your music just flies - it soars in a way that's really magical.
‐‐ Al Jarreau

The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.
‐‐ Georg Simmel

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.
‐‐ Georg Simmel

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
‐‐ John Kenneth Galbraith

The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.
‐‐ Thomas P. Campbell

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.
‐‐ Karen DeCrow

The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
‐‐ Casey Stengel

The Mexican debt crisis, Latin American debt crisis, the crises of the 1990s, the Wall Street stock market crash, and other events should have reminded us, and did remind us, that financial instability remains a concern, remains a problem.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

The Mexican gray wolves are actually responsible for the spark of legendary environmentalists Aldo Leopold and Ernest Seton. In both cases, the men found their lives and souls forever changed after they killed Mexican gray wolves.
‐‐ Joy Covey

The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

The Mexicans bowed down when we talked about removing their foreign aid, and then they began cooperating with our country.
‐‐ Joe Arpaio

The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.
‐‐ Dinaw Mengestu

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.
‐‐ Al Michaels

The Miami Heat floor is great, but a lot of them are not.
‐‐ Dwyane Wade

The Miccosukee facility in Miami only offers bingo, poker, and video gambling machines. Because it does not have slot machines or table games, the Miccosukee tribe doesn't need an agreement with the state. The Miccosukees only answer to the federal government.
‐‐ Rick Scott

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.
‐‐ Hilaire Belloc

The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings.
‐‐ Laurel Clark

The microprocessor is a miracle.
‐‐ Bill Gates

The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
‐‐ Pallam Raju

The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.
‐‐ Learned Hand

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.
‐‐ Sonia Johnson

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.
‐‐ Jay Kay

The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are absolutely invisible.
‐‐ Samantha Bond

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.
‐‐ Javier Bardem

The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.
‐‐ Nick Hanauer

The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.
‐‐ Suze Orman

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
‐‐ Constance Baker Motley

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.
‐‐ Martin Amis

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling