May Quotes

There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy.

You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.

There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.

A secret in the Oxford sense: you may tell it to only one person at a time.

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.

This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one.

The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it.

I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.