Manienta Quotes & Sayings

I like rain, actually. — Bill Rodgers

A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own. — Edwin Percy Whipple

When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes. — Dave Eggers

I don't do game shows. — Trisha Goddard

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding. — Edgar Friedenberg

The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on at that point we smash. — Jerry Pournelle

If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan. — Jacob Lew

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions. — Vaclav Havel

The hotel is not happy with me breaking a 2000-dollar TV. For a second I feel like a rock star, but that's just a second because then I feel like a psycho again. — Jonas Eriksson

I've learned so much from being a mom about the kind of person I want to be, the kind of woman I want to be. Motherhood has taught me mindfulness. If you just parent on instinct, you'll screw your kid up for life. You have to be so mindful. — Gwyneth Paltrow

When you love someone, there's a pattern to the way you come together. You might not even realize it, but your bodies are choreographed: a touch on the hip, a stroke of the hair. A staccato kiss, break away, a longer one. It's a routine, but not in the boring sense of the word. It's just the way you've learned to fit. — Jodi Picoult

When you find yourself in a storm,
look forward to the rainbow. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy. — Julia Cameron

Entering the phone booth, he did a phone thing.
Ring-ring-ring. — Philip K. Dick