Manteaux Kanuck Quotes & Sayings

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one. — Bill Murray

It is by discourse that men associate; and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations, wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies. — Francis Bacon

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment ... — Pliny The Younger

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them. — Noam Chomsky

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look. — Brian Cox

It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes. — Michael Jordan

The twelve months ...
Snowy, Flowy, Blowy,
Showery, Flowery, Bowery,
Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy,
Breeze, Sneezy, Freezy. — George F. R. Ellis

Covert Operations Report
At approximately 0900 hours on Saturday, October 14, Operative Morgan was given a stern lecture by Agent Townsend, a tracking device by Agent Cameron, and a very scary look from Operative Goode. (She also got a tip that her bra strap was showing from Operative McHenry.)
The Operative then undertook a basic reconnaissance mission inside a potentially hostile location. (But it wasn't as hostile as Operative Baxter was going to be if everything didn't go according to plan.) — Ally Carter

Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

In sleep, you dream, in drink you curse, and in travel you yell at a porter. No, work and love are the two. When you're not at work you should be in love.' 'Be — D.H. Lawrence

He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy. — Richard Selzer

Knowledge of any kind ... brings about a change in awareness from where it is possible to create new realities. — Deepak Chopra

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing. — George Bernard Shaw

Let their music skill speak for [itself]. If they are producing good tracks and are resonating with their fans, or even gaining new fans, then that's great. — Paul Oakenfold