Manlessness Quotes & Sayings

A lot of great people come to Facebook. In our business, we're about how do we help connect our companies to great people across all levels. — David Sze

I guess we're all composed of a lot of mistakes; we just have to figure out how to take our mistakes and make something good out of them. — K. Martin Beckner

My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture. He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden. Fuck him. Fuck him to hell. — David Simon

Having a [teenage] daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have its head - or what. — Grace Kelly

Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror. — Guy De Maupassant

A woman without a man
a condition of 'manlessness'
is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife. — Barbara Kingsolver

It was a state of mind - and nothing put a female there faster than the male she wanted staring at her the way Xcor was now. — J.R. Ward

The idea that competition is pointless is really something that speaks to me, especially in America where competition is really prominent and very overwhelming, and it doesn't bring the best out in you because what's going to push you is to bring others down. — Michel Gondry

Tonight, she'll bend for my punishment, tremble for my touch, and I'll risk it all to show her exactly what she means to me. — Pam Godwin

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different. — Isabella Rossellini

He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned. — Davis Bunn

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it. — Christopher Hitchens