Manierista Quotes & Sayings

In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness. — Bryant McGill

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself. — Mitch Albom

I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em nothin.' You don't plead guilty. — Ben Mendelsohn

No, what numbed these fields, peopled with bad dreams was not the oppressive grip of a plague but rather an ailing retreat, a sort of sad widowhood. Man had started to subdue these vacant expanses, then had grown weary of eating into it, and now even the desire to preserve what had been claimed had perished. He had established everywhere an ebb, a sorrowful withdrawal. His cuttings into the forest, which were seen at long intervals, had lost their hard edges, their distinct notches: now a thick brushwood had driven its sabbath into the broad daylight of the glades, hiding the naked trunks as high as their lowest branches. — Julien Gracq

America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle. — Wayne Grady

No one has direct access to your mind like you do. That's why introspection remains a valid technique even after the invention of brain scanners. — Christian Jarrett

I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death. — Charlize Theron

Fears are what cause falls. — Gwenda Bond

It is enough that I can understand one thing, clearly and distinctly, without another in order to be certain that one thing is distinct from the other. — Rene Descartes

I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable. — Warren Buffett

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial. — Bodhidharma

American political discourse had framed the Jewish problem as an immigration problem. Germany's persecution of Jews raised the specter of a vast influx of Jewish refugees at a time when America was reeling from the Depression. — Erik Larson