Manovikas Quotes & Sayings

I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present as nothing, and pursuing without pause a future which flies as we pursue, that false wisdom which removes us from our place and never brings us to any other. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You find your preferred resolutions and harmonic intervals and what-have-yous, and then you either keep writing the same thing until everybody is as bored with your songs as you are, or you try with all your might to get out of those patterns. This is what a lot of the work is all about. — Bent Saether

Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act. — Stephen Covey

To live is to fall asleep, to die is to awake. — Pierce The Veil

Remember when I said that you don't tell your girls too much about your man? Well, when I got home I TOLD!! — Pepper Pace

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances. — Patrick Warburton

Ignorance can be cured. Stupid is forever. — Miriam

He danced across my heart like a pirate,
Constantly discovering my secrets,
Turning over every hidden treasure,
Drowning me in his fantasy. — Tanzy Sayadi

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education. — Nicholas Negroponte

And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them. — Sergei Lukyanenko

Imagine all the food mankind has produced over the past 8,000 years. Now consider that we need to produce that same amount again - but in just the next 40 years if we are to feed our growing and hungry world. — Paul Polman

Such are the limitations of the human mind, and so thoroughly engrossing are the cares of common life, that only the few among men can discern through the glitter and dazzle of present prosperity the dark outlines of approaching disasters, even though they may have come up to our very gates, and are already within striking distance. The yawning seam and corroded bolt conceal their defects from the mariner until the storm calls all hands to the pumps. Prophets, indeed, were abundant before the war; but who cares for prophets while their predictions remain unfulfilled, and the calamities of which they tell are masked behind a blinding blaze of national prosperity? — Frederick Douglass

It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins. — Gary Sinise

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human. — David Henry Hwang