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May Quotes
"In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim."
May,
26
"I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written."
26
"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
26
"When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become."
26
"Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether."
May,
26
"The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not."
May,
26
"It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience."
26
"No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things."
26
"If Senator Kerry decides to join us for an hour, then we may only use one or two brief clips. And use the bulk of what he has to tell us as part of that program."
May,
26
"Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead."
26
"When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may or may not affect one candidate or the other. That's just absurd."
25
"There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud."
25
"Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village."
25
"We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do."
May,
25
"Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty."
25
"Oh, Michael Jackson is Michael Jackson. And no matter if he sold 40 million records off of one record and sold 15 off his last or whatever the counts may be, Michael Jackson will be Michael Jackson."
25
"It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid."
25
"It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice."
24
"Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past."
24
"Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while."
May,
24
"Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible."
May,
24
"Sometimes because a woman is beautiful, she's not encouraged to be more, although she may have so much more to offer."
24
"I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me."
May,
23
"New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen."
May,
23
"Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons."
22
"We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides."
22
"A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute."
May,
22
"Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form."
22
"What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along."
May,
21
"Daley may be sinking. The hot water has gone from his chest to his neck."
21
"You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come."
21
"Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability."
21
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