Max Quotes

• People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Berlin, formed for the advancement of science.

  Adolf von Harnack

  Our Generation, Names, People

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• Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.

  Edwin Starr

  Country, Artist, May

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• No one can pray and worry at the same time.

  Max Lucado

  Prayer, Worry, Praying

  Max Lucado (2012). “Great Day Every Day: Navigating Life's Challenges with Promise and Purpose”, p.125, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Things always work out for me because I do whatever I want without worrying about the consequences.

  Tucker Max

  Work Out, Worry, Want

  Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

  Max Beerbohm

  Inspirational, Greatness, Men

  Zuleika Dobson (1911) ch. 4

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• To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

  Max Beerbohm

  Mean, Men, Vanity

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.94, New York Review of Books

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• I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

  Max Beerbohm

  Boys, Oxford, Made

  More (1899) "Going Back to School"

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• One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

  Max Beerbohm

  Two, Class, Might

  And Even Now (1920) "Hosts and Guests"

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• Halloween revolves around delicious candy, excessive alcohol, and horny women dressed as sluts. This also describes my vision of Heaven.

  Tucker Max

  Halloween, Alcohol, Heaven

  Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

  Max Lucado

  Expectations, Heaven, Earth

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• No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

  Max Beerbohm

  Work, Sacrifice, Self

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.70, 1st World Publishing

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• I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.

  Barry Bonds

  Sports, Ties, Levels

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean... I was like, Max you get the dogs. I’ll talk to the hot blondes.

  John C. McGinley

  Dog, Beach, Ocean

  "Scrubs Star John C. McGinley Engaged" by Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna, people.com. August 19, 2006.

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• I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don't have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max.

  Bootsy Collins

  Creating, Boots, Situation

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• Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.

  Harry Dean Stanton

  Science, Mystery, Solve

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• Mel Gibson will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.

  Patrick McGoohan

  Numbers, Mad, Mad Max

  "How star of the stage Patrick McGoohan became a Prisoner of his own success after switching to the screen" by Marcus Dunk, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 15, 2009.

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• Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating?

  Joe Pesci

  Mad, Irritated, Call Me

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• We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is up to us.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Stars, Civilization, Mad

  "The Coming Problem of Our iPhones Being More Intelligent Than We Are" by Vivek Wadhwa, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2015.

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• I wrote Freak the Mighty because Max, the mighty half of Freak the Mighty, insisted and he's bigger than I am.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Half, Freak, Bigger

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• I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those people are: Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie and Charles Parker, who is the greatest genius of all to me because he changed the whole era around.

  Charles Mingus

  Music, Art, Player

  "What Is A Jazz Composer?". Charles Mingus' liner notes for "Let My Children Hear Music", album composed by Charles Mingus, January/February 1972.

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• As far as the Animals breaking up - it was my fault. I wanted out. We took it to the max, as far as we could take it. Our reunion tour in 1983 went pretty good until we left America. Then we pushed it too hard and it fell apart.

  Eric Burdon

  Animal, America, Faults

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• Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Art, Comedy, Innocent

  V.S. Pritchett (2011). “A Man of Letters: Selected Essays”, p.160, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and purely that we do not know whether there is any relation between Max the essayist and Mr. Beerbohm the man. We only know that the spirit of personality permeates every word that he writes ... He is without doubt the prince of his profession.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Men, Perfect

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• My uncle Max was a mountain, a shooting star, a big bear of a man, a piggyback ride waiting to happen, his pockets full of candy and, later money, or whatever the particular currency of our ages happened to be. He was rock concerts, baseball games, he was yes when my parents were no, he was a consolation for every disappointment.

  Lisa Unger

  Baseball, Stars, Uncles

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.123, Crown

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• While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find.

  Elissa Schappell

  Men, Compassion, Ghost Stories

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