Max Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The abolitionists helped to create a public discourse in which men like Lincoln become possible. That doesn't mean Lincoln is an abolitionist. It means there is a public opinion out there which is being influenced by antislavery sentiment.

  Eric Foner

  Mean, Men, People

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• I think you could say every pastor is writing this book, Max on Life; for many it just never gets published. All I did was collect a few of the questions I've been asked through the years, write up a brief response and put them in this publication.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• The book, Max on Life, is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Second Chance, Answers

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• It's an absurdity to just wish for a world of chaos without anything viable in its place. I'm loyal to my culture, my creed, the human race and my people and I don't want to see them all end up in a Mad Max movie.

  John Lydon

  Race, People, Mad

  Source: mojo20.com

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• I like being around people who are good conversationalists. When there's a give and take, and you are heightening an idea, exploring it together, that is my favorite thing in the world. I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, where everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world.

  Baron Vaughn

  Party, Ideas, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.

  Max Ernst

  Artist, Reflection, Achievement

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• Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.

  Clifford Geertz

  Believe, Hero, Animal

  Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.5, Basic Books

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• You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things." Liesel watched him as if he'd gone insane. "How, though?" Lightly, he tapped her skull with his knuckles. "Memorize it. Then write it down for him.

  Markus Zusak

  Writing, Skulls, Giving

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.322, RH Childrens Books

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• I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Sports, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!

  Maurice Sendak

  Wild Things, Cried

  Maurice Sendak (1964). “Where the wild things are”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

  Maurice Sendak

  Lonely, Kings, Wild Things

  Maurice Sendak (1964). “Where the wild things are”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Music, People, Car

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• Papa sat with me tonight. He brought the accordion down and sat close to where Max used to sit. I often look at his fingers and face when he plays. the accordion breathes. There are lines on his cheeks. They look drawn on, and for some reason, when I see them, I want to cry. It is not for any sadness or pride. I just like the way they move and change. Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.

  Markus Zusak

  Moving, Sadness, Pride

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• Just remember, somewhere, a little Chinese girl is warming up with your max.

  Jim Conroy

  Girl, Workout, Bodybuilding

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• Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Motivational, Dies, Picks

  Lurlene McDaniel (2000). “Dawn Rochelle: Four Novels”, Starfire

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• The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven’s. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The richest, the most seductive, was written by Max Bruch. But the most inward, the heart’s jewel, is Mendelssohn’s.

  Joseph Joachim

  Heart, Jewels, Seductive

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• I'm firmly of the belief that your youth should be spent pursuing your passion - not just slightly, tremulously, haltingly, but unrelentingly, with a vengeance, to the max and then beyond. So dream laughably big - and then take an absurdly huge risk or two.

  Umair Haque

  Dream, Passion, Two

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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