Samanya Manussayek Quotes & Sayings

I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, and the success of mixtures downtown (on in the most intensive portions of cities, whatever they are called) is related to the mixture possible in other part of cities. — Jane Jacobs

Seeing someone you once loved is like falling in love for the first time all over again. — Leah Raeder

The Short Stories of Nikolai Gogol. "For Gogol Ganguli," it says on the front endpaper in his father's tranquil hand, in red ballpoint ink, the letters rising gradually, optimistically, on the diagonal toward the upper right-hand corner of the page. "The man who gave you his name, from the man who gave you your name" is written within quotation marks. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I think about how fragile people are, how anyone can disappear in a second and be gone forever. — Matthew Quick

I feel like money makes you more of who you already are. — Sara Blakely

I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers. — Danica McKellar

It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence — George Orwell

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment. — E.L. Doctorow

People are becoming more intimately acquainted with people who are different than them - it's not so unusual anymore. — Viggo Mortensen

I'm not signing up for any end of the world that my sister can't be part of. — Corinne Duyvis

Wow, someone woke up on the wrong side of the Midol. — Denise Jaden

They say you can tell a lot about a country by the way it treats its prisoners ... I believe the same can be said for how a country treats its children — Jill Telford

His eyes are unfathomably sad as he lifts my chin. "Most people," Cain says, "are nothing but glimmers in the great darkness of time. But you, Helene Aquilla, are no swift-burning spark. You are a torch against the night - if you dare to let yourself burn." "Just — Sabaa Tahir