May Quotes
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Daniel Day-Lewis is extraordinary; I think he may be one of the best actors ever that we've worked with.
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Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
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I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.
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We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?
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May your dreams be sweet and your nightmares be spooky-monster-scary and not grandma-died-scary.
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I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.
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But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
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A revolution in itself is not a blessing. The revolution accomplished by the French people is, indeed, a wonderful event - the most striking, in my opinion, in history; but it may lead to events which will make it a mighty evil.
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Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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Make your own decision, based on your deepest intuitive wisdom and knowledge. You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action.
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Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.
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Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective. Most of the elite suffer from psychogenic amnesia. That means it's not organic amnesia, such as damage caused by brain injury. It's just a matter of psychology.
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What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.
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I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.
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I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived - my breakfast supplied only two ideas - that the rolls were good and the butter bad.
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We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.
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We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.
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No matter how tough the meat may be, it's going to be tender if you slice it thin enough.
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I may be a maverick, but it doesn't mean I like playing tricks.
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The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves, and hinting in these ways of her mournfulness or rejoicing. Always she is remembering old things, and these memories, though we may not grasp them, are imparted to us, so that we share her gaiety or remorse.
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When you get onstage, you can see everyone in the audience's face, down to the detail. You can see who may or may not be yawning.
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Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
