Manajatwa Quotes & Sayings

I was working at a non-profit for five years. But I could always create music after work. All throughout those years, I was writing songs and recording music and performing around town. — Jussie Smollett

Of the last two friends of yours who had the modern mind; one thought it wrong to eat fishes and the other thought it right to eat men ... — G.K. Chesterton

And he, um, well he's training my ass. I really like it, too." "No way!" she giggles. "You do? How do you train it? Is it going to do tricks or something? — Ember Chase

[H]e was one of those people who got to the top of an organisation through luck, connections, the indulgence of superiors and that sort of carelessness towards others that the easily impressed termed ruthlessness and those of a less gullible nature called sociopathy. But sometimes, just through his sheer unthinking brusqueness and inability to think through the consequences of a remark, he said what everybody else was only thinking. A comic poet working in obscene doggerel. — Iain M. Banks

A house is not a home without a cat. — Beth Campbell

The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their big cow-boy hats, great baggy dirty-white trousers, white linen shirts, and enormous heavy leather belts, nearly a foot wide, all studded over with brass nails. They wore high boots, with their trousers tucked into them, and had long black hair and heavy black moustaches. They are very picturesque, but do not look prepossessing. On — Bram Stoker

How immense the high sky is! — Nguyen Du

Daisy, simple and discreet flower,
That earned the heart of this poet. — Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

All is ephemeral, Oliver, all of it. And it's your job now to make it last forever. — Shawn Mihalik

A camera winks at me from high in the bleachers like we're sharing a secret. Fans in the home section of the Fair Grove High gym smile in envy as I hurry toward the bench, wishing some winking camera had ever, in their entire lives, shared a secret with them. — Holly Schindler

What's friendship's realest measure?
I'll tell you. The amount of precious time you'll squander on someone else's calamities and fuck-ups. — Richard Ford

Do I perceive a softening in your heart for me, damoiselle?" He laughed at her scowl. "Beware maid. I will tell you true. After you will come another and then another. There are no strings that can tether me to any woman. So guard your heart."
"My lord, you greatly exaggerate your appeal," she replied indignantly. "If I fell anything for you, 'tis hatred. You are the enemy and you are to be despised as such."
"Indeed?" He smiled slowly into her eyes.
"Then tell me, damoiselle, do you always kiss the enemy so warmly? — Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

When he gets up he spends an hour kicking and stamping on his French horn so he will not have to play it again. Music, maths, these are things that no longer make any sense to him. They are too perfect, they do not belong here. He does not khow how he ever believed this universe could be a symphony played on super-strings, when it sounds like shit, played on shit. — Paul Murray

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying. — Yann Martel

Retreat isn't the same thing as running away. They're spelled completely differently. — Erica Lindquist