Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Landrieu

If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read.

Mary-Kate Olsen

Our parents got to be kids. Now it's our turn.

Martin Yan

Because normally with Western cuisine, you'll serve vegetables separate from the meat, so kids will eat the meat and never touch the vegetables.

Martina Hingis

I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.

Michael Moore

Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people - get them charging things.

Michael Gambon

I never met my theater fans. I'm out the stage door five minutes after the curtain goes up. So that's it. I don't even know who comes, but thank God they do come. I can't tell. I keep my head down. I don't meet them. The fans from "Harry Potter" are kids who stop me in the street. I love that. That's terrific. I was amazed how many do.

Michael Grant

They both smiled at the picture of Albert in his chinos and button-down shirt exhorting kids from atop a bike.

Michael Franti

Many kids in foster homes have a lot of emotions that are hard to get out. It's important to let them know they can make a difference in the community.

Michael Chabon

I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction.

Michael Chabon

Every day is like a kid's drawing, offered to you with a strange mix of ceremoniousness and offhand disregard, yours for the keeping. Some of the days are rich and complicated, others inscrutable, others little more than a stray gray mark on a ragged page. Some you manage to hang on to, though your reasons for doing so are often hard to fathom. But most of them you just ball up and throw away.

Michael Angarano

As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.

Michiel Huisman

I started acting as a kid and doing advertising campaigns. I was probably 8 years old, and I really liked the attention.

Michelle Williams

Is there anything better than making a kid laugh?

Michio Kaku

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

Michel Gondry

Since I was a kid, I've liked to see how things are done. Sometimes when you see how things are done, it's like watching a 'making of' within the story. You see the physical aspect, the construction of things.

Michel Gondry

I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?

Michael J. Fox

I have now is whenever my kids say, "Can you look at this?" or "Can I ask you something?" or "Can you come here for a minute?" no matter what I am doing, I say yes instead of saying, "Just a sec." They never abuse the privilege, and I never once regretted it. What they took me away to do was never less important than what I was doing already.

Michael J. Fox

If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality.

Michael J. Fox

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.

Michael J. Fox

Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you.

Michael J. Fox

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

Michael Jordan

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and that's everybody's wish. I try to be a role model for black kids, white kids, yellow kids, green kids. This is what I felt was good about my personality.

Michael Jordan

It is nerve-wracking watching my kids' games.

Michael Jordan

I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without stomachs.

Martha Wainwright

Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.

Martha Stewart

We met financial expectations for the quarter in a difficult economic environment. We also signed a two-year programming agreement with Home & Garden Television to launch two new cable television series, and launched the Martha Stewart Kids magazine These initiatives provide future revenue and earnings growth for the brand and build long-term value for shareholders.

Martha Stewart

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

Mark Ruffalo

The fact that I can make a living and support three kids and my wife doing what I love to do... who does that? That's golden. It's a very privileged thing.

Mark Ruffalo

I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool.

Mark Ruffalo

My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.

Mark Ruffalo

Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.

Mark Ruffalo

I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.

Marie Lu

Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.