Manana Spelling Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to talk about myself, that's for other people to say, so I'm not saying I was so talented. — Jon Lovitz

The scraps of the rich are the delicacies of the poor. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If possible, I'd like to avoid that kind of literary burnout. My idea of literature is something more spontaneous, more cohesive, something with a kind of natural, positive vitality. For me, writing a novel is like climbing a steep mountain, struggling up the face of the cliff, — Haruki Murakami

Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common. — George Eliot

War is the mother of everything. — Heraclitus

What are you passionate enough about that you can endure the most disagreeable aspects of the work? — Elizabeth Gilbert

That's what guilt truly is, Scott realizes, a fishhook's tug on the third or fourth minute of every happy moment. — Christopher Rice

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. — Patricia Neal

Impersonating a quiet, gentle librarian like Barbara Gordon
You deserve to be taken out of circulation! — Karl Kesel

You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong. — Mercedes Lackey

I prayed for all his dreams to come true. I prayed that I would always be able to connect with him
even if I was no longer on earth. — Alexandra Adornetto

The only sci-fi movie that I've ever been offered that, had circumstances been different, I would have definitely done, was 'Avatar.' And I literally couldn't do it because of my schedule. But listening to James Cameron talk about 'Avatar' was so fascinating. Because he literally invented the world in his mind - and it literally existed. — Matt Damon

The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself. — Jerome K. Jerome