#bout

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#baseball #english #italian #just #main

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#art #dead #father #his #inclination

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#cost #going #just #know #loads

There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making. ↗

— Maria Menounos

#almost #concept #edit #film #final

This election isn't about Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. It's about you. The other guys write $10 million checks and make $10,000 bets. But we've bet this campaign on you. ↗

— Jim Messina

#barack #barack obama #bet #bets #campaign

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection. ↗

— Debra Messing

#believe #endgame #fundamentally #go #happiness

To talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass. ↗

— Grace Metalious

#drives #glass #like #sex #talk

It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#conception #hardware #more #place #soul

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#become #fan #five #jazz #long

No, we're not looking at how to control criminals... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns. ↗

— Howard Metzenbaum

#banning #control #criminals #guns #how