#lit

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#everything #learn #little #victory #you

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#i #i do #literally #me #paint

Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#because #box #box office #corporate #different

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#day #each #even #experience #fact

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain. ↗

— Francis Maude

#bit #disapprove #disapproving #homosexuality #like

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not. ↗

— Anna Neagle

#pleasant #solitude

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#comfortable #first #general #habits #know

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#rubs #sentiment #sentimentality #way #wrong

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer. ↗

— John Mayer

#good #good music #i #manufacturer #music

And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#developed #doing #emotionally #everything #go