Manilow Looks Quotes & Sayings

The errors of a theory are rarely found in what it asserts explicitly; they hide in what it ignores or tacitly assumes. — Daniel Kahneman

I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part ... I would look up, see what was going on around me, the reporters and photographers and all, and then I would just go back to making my music. — Barry Manilow

be fair, when I was young, the elections could not have been less interesting; the mediocrity of the 'political offerings' was almost surprising. A centre-left candidate would be elected, serve either one or two terms, depending how charismatic he was, then for obscure reasons he would fail to complete a third. When people got tired of that candidate, and the centre-left in general, we'd witness the phenomenon of democratic change, and the voters would install a candidate of the centre-right, also for one or two terms, depending on his personal appeal. Western nations took a strange pride in this system, though it amounted to little more than a power-sharing deal between two rival gangs, and they would even go to war to impose it on nations that failed to share their enthusiasm. — Michel Houellebecq

If your church isn't winning souls, I hope you go out of business — Tommy Barnett

I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination. — Alfred E. Perlman

You scour these Chinatowns of the mind, translating them
like sutras Xuan Zhang fetched from India, testing ways
return might be possible against these homesick inventions,
trace the traveller's alien steps across borders, and in between
discover how transit has a way of lasting, the way these Chinatowns
grew out of not knowing whether to return or to stay, and then became home. — Boey Kim Cheng

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women. — H.L. Mencken

Late people do not altogether leave us, she thought; they are still with us in memories such as that, wherever we are, no matter what time of day it was or how we were feeling, they were there, still shining the light of their love upon us. — Alexander McCall Smith