May Quotes - Page 287

Breath is life, and the intermingling of breaths is the purpose of good living. This is in essence the great principle on which all productive living must rest, for relationships among all the beings of the universe must be fulfilled; in this way each individual life may also be fulfilled.

The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem at the time - is an enrichment, even a blessing, one of the life-altering trophies of the road.

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

I'm going to Graceland, for reasons I cannot explain. There's some part of me wants to see Graceland. And I may be advised to defend every love, every ending, or maybe there's no obligations now. Maybe I've a reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland.

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

I usually go in ahead of time, like at a rehearsal, or a meeting, and tell them, "It may appear that I'm going to go haywire, but I'm not." I always map out what I'm going to do. Still, a lot of it is improvised.

When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.

My body may have been abused, but it certainly hasn't been neglected.

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

My definition of likeable may be different from other people's. That's not traditional likeable. Sympathy is a different thing [to define it].

Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself is not prescriptive.

I make a distinction between theory and methodology, the latter being the practical deployment of a premise. Theory on the contrary may well be applied, hence becomes methodology without a hitch, but isn't necessarily practical at all.

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

I see my poems as interlinked. No poem gives an answer. It may offer other questions, it may instigate other questions that then become poems.

Toyland, toyland . . . once you pass its portals you may never return again.

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

There are actors that are really fine actors but not good auditioners. There are really good auditioners that may not be great actors. There are great actors that are really good auditioners, too. I happen to be someone who's not a great auditioner, but usually on a set can hold my own.

When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

You may have heard of me.

Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.

Even the clearest localization of pain in one area may, in fact, be originating from a distant area .... The reference of pain implies the existence of convergence of inputs within the spinal cord. This leads to the necessary involvement in central neural circuits in the simplest of peripheral disorders. It also leads to the possibility that the basic disorder is entirely central.

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

I may be biased, but I think the cover art is stunning.

We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of feeling.

Very well. You may help me exterminate the Society of Wizards.