#mad

And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five. ↗

— James Merrill

#astonishing #become #external #five #his

I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it. ↗

— Paul Merton

#before #bit #business #doing #i

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#either #end #image #life #live

I used to get letters from girl reporters saying that their lives were nowhere near as exciting as Brenda's. I told them that if I made Brenda's life like theirs, nobody would read it. ↗

— Dale Messick

#exciting #get #girl #i #letters

Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself. ↗

— Nancy Meyers

#companies #down #fact #go #ground

When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row. ↗

— Pras Michel

#bit #down #felt #friends #i

By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made. ↗

— Kate Middleton

#clown #dressing #ever #far #granny

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot. ↗

— Bette Midler

#anything #helped #i #long #long time

Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#became #democratic #elected #first #her

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions. ↗

— David Miliband

#end #history #human #human history #in the end