| "___ light is not daylight, I know it": Shak. | 55 |
| "___ like a Maelstrom, with a notch" (Emily Dickinson poem) | 69 |
| "___ like a motherless child" (Richie Havens song lyric) | 66 |
| "___ like caviar..." (Marilyn Monroe quote) | 53 |
| "___ Like That" ("West Side Story" song) | 60 |
| "___ Like the Wind" ("Dirty Dancing" song) | 62 |
| "___ Like the Wind" (song from "Dirty Dancing") | 67 |
| "___ like to come and meet us" ("Starman" lyrics) | 69 |
| "___ Like Yours . . . ": Martha and the Vandellas song | 64 |
| "___ lineman for the county" (Glen Campbell lyric) | 60 |
| "___ Lips Are Sealed" (1981 Go-Go's hit) | 54 |
| "___ Lisa Overdrive" (William Gibson novel) | 53 |
| "___ Little Indians" (Sherman Alexie book) | 52 |
| "___ Little Light" (bio of Hüsker Dü's Bob Mould) | 69 |
| "___ Little Tenderness" (Otis Redding song) | 53 |
| "___ Little Tenderness" (song made famous by Otis Redding) | 68 |
| "___ little!" ("Have some fun!") | 52 |
| "___ long gone daddy in the U.S.A." (Springsteen lyric) | 65 |
| "___ long life ahead" (palmist's pronouncement) | 61 |
| "___ looking at you, kid" ("Casablanca" quote) | 66 |
| "___ Loose" ("Young Frankenstein" song) | 59 |
| "___ Love Can Break a Heart" (1962 Gene Pitney hit) | 61 |
| "___ Love" (1984 hit for the Honeydrippers) | 53 |
| "___ Love" (1994 hit for Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey) | 68 |
| "___ Loved You" ("Carousel" song) | 53 |
| "___ Loves Chachi" ("Happy Days" spin-off) | 62 |
| "___ Loves You" (1964 chart-topper by the Beatles) | 60 |
| "___ mañana" (procrastinator's jokey motto) | 60 |
| "___ Made to Love Her" (Stevie Wonder song) | 53 |
| "___ madly for Adlai" (1952 campaign slogan) | 54 |
| "___ Magic Changes" ("Grease" song) | 55 |
| "___ magic moment, so different and so new" | 53 |
| "___ Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" | 56 |
| "___ Majesty" (last track on "Abbey Road") | 62 |
| "___ Major Dude Will Tell You" (Steely Dan song) | 58 |
| "___ Major Dude Will Tell You" (Steely Dan) | 53 |
| "___ makes suffering contagious": Nietzsche | 53 |
| "___ makes the going great" (old ad slogan) | 53 |
| "___ making a list, and checking it twice" | 52 |
| "___ Man Answers" (1962 Bobby Darin/Sandra Dee film) | 62 |
| "___ man can tether time or tide" (Robert Burns) | 58 |
| "___ man in your future" (fortuneteller's declaration) | 68 |
| "___ man's the noblest work of God": Pope | 55 |
| "___ Man's, Man's, Man's World" | 53 |
| "___ man, he was a good man" (Frank Black lyric) | 58 |
| "___ Married an Axe Murderer" (1993 comedy) | 53 |
| "___ Married an Axe Murderer" (1993 movie) | 52 |
| "___ Married an Axe Murderer" (Mike Myers comedy) | 59 |
| "___ Married an Axe Murderer" (Mike Myers film) | 57 |
| "___ Marshall" (2006 Matthew McConaughey movie) | 57 |
| "___ Master's Voice" (gramophone slogan) | 54 |
| "___ Me a Unicorn" (Anne Morrow Lindbergh book) | 57 |
| "___ me down to rest me" (old prayer start) | 53 |
| "___ Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" (1963 Rolf Harris hit) | 62 |
| "___ Me While I Kiss This Guy" (book of misheard lyrics) | 66 |
| "___ me" ("I'm fine with it") | 53 |
| "___ Me" (Top-ten 1964 hit for Roger Miller) | 54 |
| "___ Me? I do not know you": Emily Dickinson | 54 |
| "___ Means I Love You" (1968 Delfonics hit) | 53 |
| "___ means nothing" (1918 manifesto declaration) | 58 |
| "___ Meets Godzilla" (classic 1969 cartoon) | 53 |
| "___ Men" ("Kiss Me, Kate" song) | 52 |
| "___ Menschen werden Brüder" (Beethoven movement) | 62 |
| "___ mezzo del cammin di nostra vita": Dante | 54 |
| "___ Mia" (Top 10 hit for Jay and the Americans) | 58 |
| "___ Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols" | 61 |
| "___ Mine" (George Harrison autobiography) | 52 |
| "___ Mine" (track on "Let It Be") | 53 |
| "___ Minnow Pea" (epistolary novel featuring pangrams) | 64 |
| "___ Mir Bist Du Schön" (1930's hit) | 53 |
| "___ Mir Bist Du Schön" (Andrews Sisters hit) | 58 |
| "___ Mir Bist Du Schoen" (Andrews Sisters hit) | 56 |
| "___ Misbehavin'" (Waller, Brooks, Razaf) | 55 |
| "___ Miss Brooks," radio hit: 1948–57 | 54 |
| "___ Miss Clawdy" (#1 R&B hit of 1952) | 52 |
| "___ moment!" ("Don't rush me!") | 56 |
| "___ most foul . . . ": "Hamlet" | 52 |
| "___ mouth like an old potato . . . ": Kipling | 56 |
| "___ Mutual Friend" (Dickens's last finished novel) | 65 |
| "___ My 30's" (short-lived VH1 sitcom of 2007) | 60 |
| "___ my God, thou art very great" (Psalm 104:1) | 57 |
| "___ My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen" (1942 hit) | 61 |
| "___ My Imagination" (Temptations chart-topper) | 57 |
| "___ my memory" ("Give me a hint") | 54 |
| "___ My Name" (2000 Destiny's Child single) | 57 |
| "___ My Party" (1963 #1 hit for Lesley Gore) | 54 |
| "___ my sons" (line from "The Godfather") | 61 |
| "___ My Sugar in Salt Lake City" (1943 hit) | 53 |
| "___ My Sugar Standing in the Rain" (1920s hit) | 57 |
| "___ My Way" ("Porgy and Bess" tune) | 56 |
| "___ myself today..." (NIN/Johnny Cash lyric) | 55 |
| "___ name I love" ("America" lyric) | 55 |
| "___ Named Scooby-Doo" (cartoon spinoff of 1988) | 58 |
| "___ Nature, red in tooth and claw ...": Tennyson | 59 |
| "___ NBC" (1990s show with a theme by John Tesh) | 58 |
| "___ neater, sweeter maiden . . . ": Kipling | 54 |
| "___ needs food, badly" (classic video game line) | 59 |
| "___ Neighbor's Wife" (1981 Gay Talese book) | 58 |
| "___ Never Been to Me" (Charlene hit song) | 52 |
| "___ never fly" (pessimist's prediction) | 54 |