Manocchio Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Godliness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. PROVERBS 14:34 — Ben Carson

A novel has to entertain
that's the contract with the reader: you give me ten hours and I'll give you a reason to turn every page. — Barbara Kingsolver

I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke. — Peta Wilson

L.A. runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy. I've heard people say there's a limit to the number of years you can stay in this city without going slightly mad. It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weather-wise, socially and professionally. — Hugh Laurie

Animals are good to think with. — Claude Levi-Strauss

The more knowledge you have, the more you're free to rely on your instincts. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

There was not too much to do as a kid when we arrived in Germany. Playing basketball and listening to music gave me something to do. — Shaquille O'Neal

If only I can find him ... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man? — Sylvia Plath

Here I was, on the cusp of my own great dream, my own impossible truth, and this gluttonous man was crowding it with his improbable vision. There wasn't enough magic in the universe for both of us. Worse, Garth's mad theory put mine in an altogether new light. Was I as crazy as his fat ass? — Mat Johnson

Writing is the worst part of being a writer. — James Atlas

Just as you do not need to be a director to detect a bad movie, you do not need economics, finance, or any other abstruse special knowledge to distinguish between good and bad strategy. — Anonymous

The self must be destroyed, brought down to nothing, in order for self-transcendence to begin. Then the self can begin to relate itself to powers beyond itself. It has to thrash around in its finitude, it has to "die," in order to question that finitude, in order to see beyond it. To what? Kierkegaard answers: to infinitude, to absolute transcendence, the the Ultimate Power of Creation which made finite creatures. — Ernest Becker

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations. — James Taylor

Not Alec Weebs? Never! Biffy was appreciatively shocked. — Gail Carriger

Maybe she's preemptively getting her karmic backlash for that, but there's something icky about all this. Yes, the "hello, boys" chest like two friendly chinchillas, Bigfoot ball stomper Lara Croft was oversexualized, but this is still sexualization from the opposite, somehow even creepier side of the coin. At least that Tyrannosaurus in the first game never tried to feel her up. — Yahtzee Croshaw