Mannes Prep Quotes & Sayings

If Jo is a tomboy and Amy a goose, what — Louisa May Alcott

By saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms. — John Green

The good is not a category that interests me. — Rem Koolhaas

Out of His fullness we receive, and grace for grace, - like wave upon wave. — Horatius Bonar

You see them? You see the things that float and flop about you and through you ever moment of your life? You see the creatures that form what men call the pure air and the blue sky? Have I not succeeded in breaking down the barrier; have I not shown you worlds that no other living men have seen? — H.P. Lovecraft

The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photographer I was working with, the same one I worked with on the Afghanistan book, Seamus Murphy. We were caught in an attack by a mob after Friday prayers. And the level of violence was so extreme. It was more violent than any other mob violence I have ever seen. — Eliza Griswold

Sam smiled, his brown eyes turning golden in the dawn. It was such a Sam look, the twinkle of mischief, the hint of exasperation, the kindness that would always, always make him a better person than she was. — Sarah J. Maas

There are two kinds of people who do martial arts: those who practice a thousand different kicks one time each, and those who practice one kick a thousand times minimum. You can guess which group I belong to. — Georges St-Pierre

I turned my ear toward the door because I heard him breathing. When you're alone and afraid, the simple sound of the steady in and out of air being drawn by another person is good medicine. — Laura Anderson Kurk

You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time — Kahlil Gibran

Well time has a way of throwing it all in your face. The past, she is haunted, the future is laced. — Gregory Alan Isakov