Maniglia Media Quotes & Sayings

True friends never mind holding your hair back while you cast up your crumpets. — Lisa Kleypas

Casement quoted an African proverb: "A man doesn't go among thorns unless a snake's after him - or he's after a snake." He added, "I'm after a snake and please God I'll scotch it. — Adam Hochschild

The more you kill, the better you get at it. And the better you get at killing, the less use you are for anything else. — Joe Abercrombie

AFTER GERMAN we caught a bus to Shinjuku and went to an underground bar called DUG behind the Kinokuniya bookstore. We each started with two vodka and tonics. "I come here once in a while," she said. "They don't embarrass you about drinking in the afternoon." "Do you drink in the afternoon a lot?" "Sometimes," she said, rattling the ice in her glass. "Sometimes, when the world gets hard to live in, I come here for a vodka and tonic." "Does the world get hard to live in?" "Sometimes," said Midori. "I've got my own special little problems." "Like what?" "Like family, like boyfriends, like irregular periods. Stuff." "So have another drink." "I will." I waved the waiter over and ordered two more vodka and tonics. — Haruki Murakami

But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago. — Augusten Burroughs

There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you. — Ioan Gruffudd

I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a quarter of the way through it I realise I'm doing things wrong, so I start rewriting it. What you call the first draft becomes rather like a caterpillar; it is progressing fairly slowly, but there is movement up and down its whole length, the whole story is being changed. I call this draft zero, telling myself how the story is supposed to go. — Terry Pratchett

And what exactly is it that you do?"

"I do pretty much what the name implies. I shoot trouble. — Bard Constantine

Love is full of imagination. — Jane Porter