Manosa Quotes & Sayings

The image cannot be dispossessed of a primordial freshness, which idea can never claim. An idea is derivative and tamed. The imageis in the natural or wild state, and it has to be discovered there, not put there, obeying its own law and none of ours. We think we can lay hold of image and take it captive, but the docile captive is not the real image but only the idea, which is the image with its character beaten out of it. — John Crowe Ransom

Petchenegs versus Byzantium, said Jimmy, one memorable day. — Margaret Atwood

The next thing I knew, the season of politics was over. Like a drooping flag on a windless day, the gigantic shock waves that had convulsed society for a time were swallowed up by a colorless, mundane workaday world. — Haruki Murakami

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK. — Randy Pausch

From the dawn of civilization, human beings have tried to find out order in the chaotic world surrounding them. It has however never been easy to find a solution to explain a given system while being a part of that system. The best bet is to find out the most fundamental components within the system and building a theory round these. In other words, a theory that is able to describe the world in totality has to keep the number of basic postulates it depends upon to zero or near zero. — Subhajit Ganguly

Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God. — Maimonides

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a Quaker. — Woody Allen

Where are you supposed to put your arms when you dance? It's like the Universal Question. — Ned Vizzini

But either way, you end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses, as Amma would say. — Kami Garcia

That's why I sleep alone. My hair is curly, and that's why I have my ponytail. I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie, — Karl Lagerfeld

They really hate you, yes they do. They hate everyone, how 'bout you? — Kami Garcia