Mnyrei Quotes & Sayings

My thoughts kept straying onto random paths ... hoping to get lost in a thicket. — Barbara Kingsolver

What you think of as your common sense in regard to relationships may be based on something you have come to believe that isn't totally true or may not be true at all. — Chris Prentiss

You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods. — Stephen Covey

Poetry must be available to the public in far greater volume than it is. It should be as ubiquitous as the nature that surrounds us, and from which poetry derives many of its similes; or as ubiquitous as gas stations, if not as cars themselves. Bookstores should be located not only on campuses or main drags but at the assembly plant's gates also. Paperbacks of those we deem classics should be cheap and sold at supermarkets. This is, after all, a country of mass production, and I don't see why what's done for cars can't be done for books of poetry, which take you quite a bit further. Because you don't want to go a bit further? Perhaps; but if this is so, it's because you are deprived of the means of transportation, not because the distances and the destinations that I have in mind don't exist. — Joseph Brodsky

The key to Turkey's success has been its ability to reinvent itself as times change. — Stephen Kinzer

Not that the Lord minded about the killings. Why, His Book was full of killings. — David Grubb

Poor examples because of mechanical needs of typing, of the flow of river sounds, words, dark, leading to the future and attesting to the madness, hollowness, ring and roar of my mind which blessed or unblessed is where trees sing
in a funny wind
well-being believes he'll go to heaven
a word to the wise is enough
'Smart went Crazy — Jack Kerouac

Until the hen makes a distinctive plan for the eggs, the chicken don't get hatched [ref Directions In Production Engineering Research, Part II] — Priyavrat Thareja

I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion ... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself ... no! — Jean Paul Gaultier

I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves. — Emily Dickinson

There is nothing miraculous about puzzles. Competent mentalism is miraculous. — Max Maven