Masana In English Quotes & Sayings

I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and hoodwinked this institution into giving me a job and health insurance. — Vijay Seshadri

I think I'm quite a lazy person, actually. If I'm not careful, I could just stay in bed all day. — David Morrissey

Seventy-five percent of great art is hard work only about twenty-five percent is great talent. — Lee Strasberg

Live, not just for living
Live, not just for getting
Live for the beauty of loving
Live for the joy of giving. — Debasish Mridha

The man has to learn 'what each specific thing means', as Socrates often said, and stop casually applying preconceptions to individual cases.
This is the cause of everyone's troubles, the inability to apply common preconceptions to particulars. Instead the opinions of men as to what is bad diverge. — Epictetus

You talk like American television. — Patrick Ness

God, I hate rogue necromancers," said Magnus. "Why can't they just follow the rules?"
"Probably because the biggest rule is 'no necromancy'?" Emma suggested — Cassandra Clare

My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country — Salmon P. Chase

You can tell a million different stories about love. Especially when it's love with someone who's different."
You mean a monster?" Coleman said.
"Well, that's what you think at first. But it's like, um, Beauty and the Beast. When you find out that the monster is actually ... nice."
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"But doesn't real love work the other way round?" Kiralee asked. "You start by thinking someone's fabulous, and by the end of the piece you realize he's a monster!"
"Or that you're the monster yourself," Oscar said. — Scott Westerfeld

In Gnosticism, man belongs with God against the world and the creator of the world (both of which are crazy, whether they realize it or not). The answer to Fat's question, "Is the universe irrational, and is it irrational because an irrational mind governs it?" receives this answer, via Dr. Stone: "Yes it is, the universe is irrational; the mind governing it is irrational; but above them lies another God, the true God, and he is not irrational; in addition that true God has outwitted the powers of this world, ventured here to help us, and we know him as the Logos," which, according to Fat, is living information. — Philip K. Dick

Why the fuck do you think I'm so tired?" I say to her.
"Because you play too much online poker?" she says. — Sarah Noffke

Who needs dignity? Pride? They're overrated. When you've got nothing, you've got nothing left to lose. — Emma Chase

The last thing I had expected to use that cleaning spell for when I had laboriously been forced to learn it was a tide of poisonous scorpion monsters, but any port in a storm. — Jim Butcher

Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays. — Garry Hynes

Is there so much anger in the minds of the gods? — Virgil