May Quotes

• An awareness of our smallness may help to redeem us from the arrogance which is the besetting sin of the scientists.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • May
  • Help

• Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • May
  • Night

• For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Live
  • Money
  • Way

• And where may hide what came and loved our clay? as the Poet asked finely.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • May

• In the network model, rewards come by empowering others, not by climbing over them. If you work in a hierarchy, you may not want to climb to its top.

  

  John Naisbitt
  • Work
  • Model
  • Empowering

• I would think that other people could see if you had other talents. I grew and expanded from the Elly May role. I was doing real estate and personal appearances and kept my foot in the door.

  

  Donna Douglas
  • People
  • Real
  • Door

• The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • May
  • House
  • Picture

• May I join you in the doghouse, Rover?I wish to retire till the party's over.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • May
  • Wish
  • Party

• I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may.

  

  Alexis Arquette
  • Up
  • Time
  • Gay

• It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it.

  

  Fred Korematsu
  • Time
  • May

• God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • God
  • May
  • Fool

• Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

  

  Albert J. Nock
  • Thinking
  • Knowledge
  • Learning

• Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Control
  • Service
  • Path

• If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.

  

  Matt Kemp
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be, but don't think it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • May

• You now have learned enough to see That Cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind. For some are sane and some are mad And some are good and some are bad And some are better, some are worse - But all may be described in verse.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.

  

  Akira Kurosawa
  • People
  • Children
  • Reality

• Now you can get artisanal everything - pickles, coffees, house-cured meats, mustard. The pendulum has swung back to this kind of food, and it gives me the greatest hope for the future, especially because we're living in a time with issues like polluted Gulf Coast seafood and food labeled organic that may not really be organic.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Future

• The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones, but it's not like working a 9-5 job and only having two or three weeks off a year. I may not have seen my girlfriend for two or three months, but then we can spend two or three months together solidly.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Time
  • Great
  • Job

• Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Age
  • Fancy
  • Humour

• If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may be a technician, but you won't understand what you're doing, and your dish will be flat.

  

  Eric Ripert
  • May

• The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively.

  

  Vilfredo Pareto
  • May
  • Value
  • Struggle

• Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.

  

  Edward Teller
  • May

• If you talk, you only repeat something that you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something that you don't know.

  

  Bud Grant
  • May

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