Manuskripto Quotes & Sayings

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me. — Ingrid Bergman

Dear Abba, I'm starting out free today, free from the advertised lies that promise me everything from four-doors of turbo-charged happiness to some contraption that will shake, rattle, and roll my abs back into a pack I never had even in my twenties. It would be comical if it wasn't so sad: all of our desires to make ourselves worthy of this world but unfit for the world to come. I want to be a follower of the sacred dream, and one day arrive fully free, free at last. — Brennan Manning

He was looking forward to this about as much as one would look forward to a tooth extraction, or perhaps a vasectomy. A colonoscopy? He pondered a list of horrific things that could possibly be less painful than a week-long royal wedding. — Jessica Clare

My father died when I was quite small, so my uncle used to buy me books and read them to me. — Jenny Nimmo

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago. — Joanna Newsom

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books. — Julia Quinn

Wonderful. Gives a whole new meaning to flour power. You'll undoubtedly change the world, one fruitcake at a time. — Kimberly Frost

I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science. — Jay Roach

As Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, says: "In the old world, you devoted 30 percent of your time to building a great service and 70 percent of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts."16 — Eric Schmidt

One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society. — Michael Pare

Genius is a word that is very loosely used nowadays. It is ascribed to persons to whom a more sober judgement would be satisfied to allow talent. Genius and talent are very different things. Many people have talent; it is not rare: genius is. Talent is adroit and dexterous; it can be cultivated; genius is innate, and too often strangely allied to grave defects. But what is genius? — W. Somerset Maugham

Had he been even old, ugly, and vulgar, the gratitude and kindness of Mrs. Dashwood would have been secured by any act of attention to her child; but the influence of youth, beauty, and elegance, gave an interest to the action which came home to her feelings. — Jane Austen

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst. — William Shakespeare