Magnin Quotes & Sayings

the world has stopped. Not just my world, but the world of everyone around me. When we meet with friends, we always talk about the same things and the same people. The conversations seem new, but it's all just a waste of time and energy. We're trying to prove that life is still interesting. — Paulo Coelho

Love is like Pi: natural, irrational, and very important. — Lisa Hoffman

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic. — Douglas William Jerrold

I was a floor model at I. Magnin. I'm 5 feet 7, but my legs weren't long enough to be a big-time model. From the knees up, everything is long, but from ankle to knee, if I was in proportion, I'd be 5 feet 9. — Grace Slick

As Trick points out, sports leagues aren't concerned with determining the rankings as quickly and expeditiously as possible. Instead, sports calendars are explicitly designed to maintain tension throughout the season, something that has rarely been a concern of sorting theory. For — Brian Christian

God cannot be found on a microscopic slide, but in the hearts of men. — Edgar Magnin

When I began to read as an adult, I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then I started getting more up to date. When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do. — Hilary Mantel

Mothers. We get none of the breaks. But we also get most of the blessings. You — Joyce Magnin

Every few years when it's been another five years that have passed and I haven't made a film and the depression starts taking over totally, I allow myself to do a commercial. And then I feel really dirty and get to work promptly. — Terry Gilliam

When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things. — Neal Shusterman

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. — Anna Jameson

You are the one who can stretch your own horizon. — Edgar Magnin

Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel. — Edgar Magnin

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind. — M.F.K. Fisher

It is in the area of feeling that religion enters the heart and is expressed by man. — Edgar Magnin

Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social order within which individuals could lead happy and ethical lives. He was the first to outline clearly what one is tempted to call the elementary scene of ideology, its zero-level, which consists in asserting the (nameless) authority of some substantial Tradition. — Slavoj Zizek