#were

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#cradle #death #followed #insanity #life

In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#arrivals #being #community #disadvantaged #enabled

For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit. ↗

— Peter Munk

#fit #good #natural #natural resources #resources

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them. ↗

— Hector Hugh Munro

#beautiful #eyes #friendship #her #long

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#because #books #good #had #high

Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#books #complicated #dark #feel #finish

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#big #big companies #companies #company #getting

Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you today. Because the time is different. The film is the work of today's audience. ↗

— Dennis Muren

#audience #because #different #differently #fifty

I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness. ↗

— Heidi Murkoff

#because #craved #excess #first #get

When I was first pregnant, which was, let's see, in nineteen-eighty-three - I remember wearing a regular bathing suit to my in-laws' pool. It was just like a spandex one-piece, completely modest, and yet people were looking at me like it was obscene. ↗

— Heidi Murkoff

#bathing suit #completely #first #i #i remember