Mamenko Quotes & Sayings

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness. — Virginia Woolf

I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early. — Charlie Hunnam

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong. — Russell Baker

There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both. — Hal Borland

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it. — Zubin Mehta

At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick. — Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down. — Tana French

The chief obstacle to success lies in the stubborn fact that if the favorable prospects of a concern are clearly apparent they are almost always reflected already in the current price of the stock. Buying such an issue is like betting on a topheavy favorite in a horse race. The chances may be on your side, but the real odds are against you. — Benjamin Graham

I don't have a style. I wouldn't say I have a style as a writer, either. I know people have said "This is what he does," but when I'm writing, I don't think about that. I don't think about a style. — Charlie Kaufman

We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet. — Mike Davidson

If we look at it from eye corners, or from places other than the center of our head, isn't there a kind of terrible beauty in it? — Megan Abbott

It's always good to have a story arch. — Margot Robbie

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry. — Lord Byron

I must say, extreme justice is an extreme injury: for we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal; — Thomas More

The hinterlands. Where the criminals and the carnivals and the concatenating counterfeiters of no morals to speak of make a home. — Catherynne M Valente