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May Quotes
"The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!"
"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."
"We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides."
"Daley may be sinking. The hot water has gone from his chest to his neck."
"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
"Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
May,
"When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become."
"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."
"Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed."
"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,
"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."
"It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them."
May,
"The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use."
"We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves."
May,
"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,
"Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where."
"I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented."
"A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion."
May,
"Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than at the bottom. so that there may be the largest surface above to favor the evaporation."
May,
"This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle."
"Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping."
"Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."
"My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write."
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