Mignaco Quotes & Sayings

I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life. — Jenna Bush

It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill. — John Gunther

You can't prepare for a positive relationship while your in a negative one. — Lenon Honor

The wall that separates insiders from outsiders is not born of human nature but methodically built, brick by brick, by tribal convention. The "wall" about which I will often speak in this book is not an organism or a membranous extension of some inborn aspect of "human nature". It is a mechanistic process-a barrier meticulously constructed by erratic community decrees as a means of identifying those who are part of the group and marking those who are not. It is not difficult to imagine the chauvinism that require a community to mark its territories and distinguish its members from its enemies. It is far more difficult to understand the kind of "outsiders" who are the subjects of this book-those who are part of the group and yet are rejected by their peers and cast into a terrible internal exile. It is an exile called "alienation". — Jamake Highwater

Anyone who believes he has caught him in a fantastic lie is apt to find out that the fantastic story is the truth. And some unimportant statement, like just having bought an evening paper a half-hour ago, is the lie."

--On Orson Welles — Bernard Herrmann

I'm from North Wales, where we express ourselves by throwing rocks at trees. — Lisa Kleypas

Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me. — Cecelia Ahern

He turned to me. His expression was serious, but I liked how it softened slightly when he looked at me. Like the way he looked at me was different from how he looked at everyone else. — Amy Tintera

I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. — Walter Tevis