Manianimal Quotes & Sayings

I avoid roles that might send me down a road where I might end up being typecast. — Denzel Whitaker

If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life. — Amit Kalantri

Only women could bleed without injury or death; only they rose from the gore each month like a phoenix; only their bodies were in tune with the ululations of the universe and the timing of the tides. Without this innate lunar cycle, how could men have a sense of time, tides, space, seasons, movement of the universe, or the ability to measure anything at all? How could men mistress the skills of measurement necessary for mathematics, engineering, architecture, surveying - and so many other professions? In Christian churches, how could males, lacking monthly evidence of Her death and resurrection, serve the Daughter of the Goddess? In Judaism, how could they honor the Matriarch without the symbol of Her sacrifices recorded in the Old Ovariment? Thus insensible to the movements of the planets and the turning of the universe, how could men become astronomers, naturalists, scientists - or much of anything at all? — Gloria Steinem

Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published. — T.L. Rese

I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison. — Dean Winters

I didn't paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy's living room, — Ralph Fasanella

Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams. — Stanley Kunitz

Am I insane? I ask limply, and all feelings have fled my body. I'm numb. I'm a piece of wood. I'm a sponge, and I have no feelings, and I've absorbed all of this insanity for so long that now I'm insane myself. That's the only possible answer. — Courtney Cole

Reacher was the kind of guy who solved all problems as permanently as possible. — Diane Capri

I was a very spastic kid who loved to see how high he could climb a tree. That's just the way I've always been. — Stephen Colletti

We are culturally predisposed to sheltering criticism from criticism; we have enshrined the iconoclast — Marilynne Robinson

I was raised - and still consider myself to be - Catholic, though I'm non-practicing and haven't fulfilled my Easter duty since sometime during the Nixon years. I'm assailed by all kinds of stimulating doubts, but I do believe in God. — Thomas Mallon

In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance. — Phillis Wheatley

This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays. — Jeffrey Jones