Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Starr

Life is too short to torture yourself for no reason.

Martin Yan

I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life.

Martin Yan

When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters.

Martin Yan

I live a very low-key life.

Michael Franti

Life is too short to make just one decision, music is too loud for just one station, love is too big for just one nation, and God is too big for just one religion!

Michael Chabon

The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

Michael Chabon

The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware that every time they toddled away from you, they came back a little different, ten seconds older and nearer to the day when they left you for good. Pearl divers in training, staying under a few seconds longer every time.

Mena Suvari

Sometimes I don't feel like the person that I'm supposed to be. I don't feel like I deserve any of this.

Melody Beattie

When you wonder what is coming, tell yourself the best is coming, the very best life and love have to offer, the best God and His universe have to send. Then open your hands to receive it. It's yours.

Michio Kaku

After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that we have to sing for our supper. ... The Cold War is over. You can't simply say "Russia!" to Congress, and they whip out their checkbook and say, "How much?" We have to tell the people why this atom-smasher is going to benefit their lives.

Michio Kaku

Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, before being tragically struck down by tuberculosis at the age of 33... Working in total isolation from the main currents of his field, he was able to rederive 100 years' worth of Western mathematics on his own. The tragedy of his life is that much of his work was wasted rediscovering known mathematics.

Michel Faber

A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.

Michel Houellebecq

If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.

Michel Foucault

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Michael Johnson

Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.

Michael Josephson

I think Samuel Johnson had it right when he observed that hope is itself a species of happiness. So if we want to be happy it only makes sense to discipline ourselves to choose our attitudes, to think positively and to be hopeful.

Michael J. Fox

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend.

Michael J. Fox

Life is good, and there's no reason to think it won't be--right up until the moment when everything explodes into a fireball of tiny, unrecognizable fragments, or it all goes skidding sideways, through the guardrail, over the embankment, and down the mountain. This will happen (and probably more than once).

Michael J. Fox

Life is what you put into it and how much you take out of it. You put in more than is expected, and you take out less than you want.

Michael J. Fox

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Michael Jordan

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.

Martha Reeves

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

Martha Stewart

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

Mark Richards

I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is.

Mark Cuban

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.

Mark Cuban

Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do.

Marie Corelli

it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

Marie Curie

Life is not easy for any for us.

Marie Curie

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Marie Curie

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Mariel Hemingway

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marge Piercy

Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family's socio-economic circumstances, and, in later life, by the person's.