#great

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#ant #cope #crushes #endowed #greater

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#everybody #fell #god #greatest #had

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph. ↗

— Janet Malcolm

#great #painting #photograph #scratch #things

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that. ↗

— John Malkovich

#always #ball player #baseball #father #football

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true. ↗

— John Malkovich

#controlled #doing #everyone #great #great truth

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it. ↗

— David Mallet

#forms #great #inspires #noble #people

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#bad #beyond #century #dimaggio #good

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#century #great #great love #i #last

China is important to the world in that they are a force and on the move. Exposing them to figurative art opens up a potential for artistic expression far greater than anyone would ever have dreamed possible until today. It is this very spirit of the struggle and determination to triumph that inspires creative expression. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#art #artistic #artistic expression #china #creative

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#back #been #freud #greatest #i