Mantega Quotes & Sayings

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics. — Mickey Spillane

We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how to live in this great and gracious community of truth. — Parker J. Palmer

Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self. — Elizabeth Lesser

There has, I fear, developed the worst of needs, the need to know, coupled reluctantly with an awareness that I probably will, in fact, never know. — Brian Evenson

Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance. — Thomas Sowell

children treasure the hope that they might be like the children in books: secretly magical, part of some deeper, mysterious world that makes them something out of the ordinary. — Helen Macdonald

I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch. — Bob Woodward

A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys and bacon and omlette and cold ham and toast and marmalade and coffee and beer. And after that he tends to the horse part of himself by grazing for an hour or so and finishing up with a hot mash, some oats, and a bag of sugar. That's why it's such a serious thing to ask a Centaur to stay for the weeekend. A very serious thing indeed. — C.S. Lewis

I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow. — Neil Armstrong

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition ... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. — Roland Barthes

It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it. — Emily Greene Balch

Maybe it's not really lying if you barely know you're doing it. It should be true. It's the way it should be, in an ideal world. — Harriet Lane

There's just something extraordinary about that Selma Hayek. — Woody Harrelson