Manjkati Quotes & Sayings

The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places, I think, are the ones that reside just this side of paradise. The perfect person would be insufferable to live with; likewise, we wouldn't want to live in the perfect place, either. "A life time of happiness! No man could bear it: It would be hell on earth," wrote George Bernard Shaw, in his play Man and Superman. — Eric Weiner

Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration. — Mark Twain

In short, the liberation of the individual conscience from hierarchical and priestly authority opened up space for critical thinking in every field of human activity. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal. — Peg Bracken

In photographs she is a boxy woman, girdled with steel, shod in coal-black stompers, her bosom so large it might have housed turbines. She was all but illiterate in Yiddish and English but obliged my grandfather, and later Uncle Ray, to read to her daily from the Yiddish press so that she could keep abreast of the latest calamities to beset Jewry. From — Michael Chabon