Mannes Body Quotes & Sayings

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent, — Seth Klarman

Hail, happiness, then, and after happiness, hail not those dreams which bloat the sharp image as spotted mirrors do the face in a country-inn parlour; dreams which splinter the whole and tear us asunder and wound us and split us apart in the night when we would sleep; but sleep, sleep, so deep that all shapes are ground to dust of infinite softness, water of dimness inscrutable, and there, folded, shrouded, like a mummy, like a moth, prone let us lie on the sand at the bottom of sleep. — Virginia Woolf

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope. — Miguel De Unamuno

On Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies. — Marya Mannes

Let your light shine so brightly that it chases shadows away. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I don't want to look back and be like, 'You had it all, and you weren't even present for it. You weren't able to enjoy it.' I want to be here, be now and be grateful. — Macklemore

Without justice there can be no love. — Bell Hooks

Maybe it's a kind of freedom too. To stay home. — Peter Ho Davies

Now is rather a questionable one. And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, — Arthur Conan Doyle

If there is something in you that is constantly pulling you back, then know that this might possess a power that inhibits you — Sunday Adelaja

For another thing, we're under martial law, so I can do very nearly whatever the fuck I want. Including march through your precious little ship there towing you along behind in a ball gag and lacy underwear. So your warrant bullshit? You can roll that up and fuck it. Now tell me why I'm here. — James S.A. Corey

Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating. — Kate Braverman

When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded as a science, or an art, or a sport, all the same psychology bears no relation to it and only stands in the way of real chess. — Jose Raul Capablanca

It's the age of information and we need to just get as informed as we can about what other things might help us live healthy lives. — Linda Hamilton

I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them. — Aleksandar Hemon