Revette Manlius Quotes & Sayings

Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write. — John Dos Passos

The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign. — Pat Sajak

You have the RIGHT to change your mind — Oprah Winfrey

I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect. — George R R Martin

Dividing one number by another is mere computation ; knowing what to divide by what is mathematics. — Jordan Ellenberg

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable. — William E. Gladstone

We speak for those who cannot speak. We have a duty to tell the stories for those who do not have the advantages that we have to tell stories. We must not speak falsely. The stories that we are entrusted to tell are stories of our tribes, or the tribes into which we have been initiated. — Billy Marshall Stoneking

Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair? — Cole Porter

The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important. — Marek Belka

A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation in the other person, and therefore in the world. But before it produces a transformation in the other person, it has to produce a transformation within us. Some letters may take the whole of our lifetime to write. — Thich Nhat Hanh

She was an Amazon. Her whole life was spent riding at breakneck speed towards the wilder shores of love. — Lesley Blanch