Manier Quotes & Sayings

The establishment Republicans are beginning to say on the record what they had been whispering about in private for months: that Donald Trump at the top of the ticket could mean an electoral wipeout down the ballot. — Dalia Mogahed

Because of my compact and muscular body composition, my short hair, and my "Johawk," I have been mistaken for a boy on many occasions. Each time it happens, it feels like I have been punched in the gut. It is extremely discouraging. — Joanna Lohman

A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker.
"Grammy's here!" he shouts.
He puts some MacAttack Mac&Cheese in the microwave and dons headphones and takes out a video game so he won't be bored during the forty seconds it takes his lunch to cook. A truck comes around the corner and hits Grammy, sending her flying over the roof into the backyard, where luckily she lands on a trampoline. Unluckily, she bounces back over the roof, into the front yard, landing on a rosebush. — George Saunders

You had me at hello. — Ruthie L. Manier

Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011. — Mark Zandi

I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in. — Lily Cole

We tremble on the cusp of half-remembered prophecies, of wonders and terrors that no man now living could hope to comprehend — George R R Martin

My Dad was sad that he saw us working so hard on something that was destined to fail. — Kristin Kimball

I asked myself what Palestinians would do if Israel disappeared-if everything not only went back to the way it was before 1948 but if all the Jewish people abandoned the Holy Land and were scattered again. And for the first time, I knew the answer. We would still fight. Over nothing. Over a girl without a head scarf. Over who was toughest and most important. Over who would make the rules and who would get the best seat. — Mosab Hassan Yousef

I feel unsettled at any time when I'm not writing. And I mean that. There's a sense of peace, and of being in the right place, that I experience only when I'm writing. — Gretchen Rubin

A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what's in the picture — Susan Sontag

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything. — Paul Rudd

I never hold a grudge. As soon as I get even with the son-of-a bitch, I forget it. — W.C. Fields

Some pleasures are intrinsically ethical - feelings like love, gratitude, devotion, and compassion. To inhabit these states of mind is, by definition, to be brought into alignment with others. — Sam Harris