#hr

And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him. ↗

— Mary Stuart Masterson

#become #did #him #just #kept

After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#after #finished #half #harvard #i

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#also #because #become #being #both

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#done #finally #i #mother #never

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#adolescence #eleven #great #had #i

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#conscious #expressing #generate #i #light

A true champion will fight through anything. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#champion #fight #through #true #will

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#extravagant #four #large #living #modestly

Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#communicating #first #first time #how #i

So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#cruise #eyes #going #gone #life