Jerri Manthey Quotes & Sayings

The days are stacked against what we think we are. — Jim Harrison

I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not doing much of anything. It is precisely words, word lines, lines of words and images, and associations connected with these word and image lines in the brain, that keep you in present time, right where you are sitting now. — William S. Burroughs

This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If you want to be a good lair, tell people what they want to hear. (From Hot dogs under The Dakota) — Johannes Gouws

Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces. — John Ruskin

Girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests. — Jeffrey Eugenides

You think whatever is wrong with you is contagious, then?'
She laughed again. 'Yes, but you have it already. You caught it from your mother. Death. — Gene Wolfe

The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history. — Rabindranath Tagore

I lived in Chicago, but the music I was inspired by was from D. C. — Fred Armisen

Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept. — Carol Leifer

Donny recovered herself. Dude, that was the seventh sign of the apocalypse. I'm so not going to class on the last day of the world. — Gwen Hayes