Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Ovitz

A lot of drive is innate, self-perpetuated, reinforced energy. As a kid, I could always sell anything I could get my hands on - from newspapers to lemonade to TV Guide. I knew how to make a presentation.

Michael Ondaatje

People don't write about kids; you have to give them a lot of freedom, and that causes anarchy and that causes farce.

Michael Madsen

Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.

Michael Ironside

I basically was a precocious little kid.

Megan Fox

Until you have kids, you can't imagine how much you could possibly love a human being.

MC Hammer

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

Meb Keflezighi

I think [my kids] are runners. They definitely have the background. I try to help them as much as I can.

Maury Povich

I think there's a good kid underneath everybody. I really do.

Mavis Staples

I would get in fights a lot. My voice was so heavy, kids would say you sound like a boy, so I would start beating them up.

Maurice Sendak

Kids lead a very private life.

Maurice Sendak

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. And if I've done anything, I've had kids express themselves as they are.

Maureen Dowd

Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr. Clinton against Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones by saying he had merely made clumsy passes, then accepted rejection, so there was no sexual harassment involved. As to his dallying with an emotionally immature 21-year-old, Ms. Steinem noted, 'Welcome sexual behavior is about as relevant to sexual harassment as borrowing a car is to stealing one.' Surely what's good for the Comeback Kid is good for the Terminator.

Maureen Johnson

I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.

Maureen Johnson

The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.

Matthew Weiner

My major goal is to take my bathrobe off before the kids get home from school.

Matthew Weiner

All human stories are interesting. You don't put a kid in a show because you need a device. They have a story, too.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization. We’re going down. No, it’s sure not too attractive. Lenticels. I just hope my kids don’t live to see the last days. The things burning and people living in cellars. Violet. The only thing worse than the thought it may all come tumbling down is the thought that we may go on like this forever.

Matthew Lewis

I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.

Matthew Lillard

Nothing would make my kids happier than to do another movie.

Matthew Lillard

As a kid, as a young actor, I really wanted to pop. I wanted to create something different. I wanted to be Sean Penn, but I didn't have all the words to be Sean Penn. But I was trying to do something different in every role.

Matt Ross

I played guitar when I was a kid, a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.

Maya Beiser

I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact that it was big.

Maya Rudolph

I think that people who don't like kids are awful people.

Maya Rudolph

If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it's better than nothing.

Mayer Hawthorne

I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid.

Mayer Hawthorne

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

Mayim Bialik

I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.

Mayim Bialik

As a kid, I felt really weird.

Maya MacGuineas

The government doesn't save enough, it borrows too much and it doesn't invest enough in the next generation. It's like what parents are trying to get their kids not to do, but if they look at the federal government, that's what they're doing.

Maya Angelou

Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.

Maurice Sendak

Kids never get pissed at their parents. Unheard of.

Maurice Sendak

All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw.

Maurice Sendak

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.