Vazgen Manukian Quotes & Sayings

I don't think sun-tanned skin is any more attractive than white skin, or any healthier, for that matter — Marilyn Monroe

Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success. — Cyrus McCormick

Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous. — Samuel Johnson

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect. — Nicolas Chamfort

There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned. — Alec Guinness

It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

But whatever the exact psychology of the process {receiving recognition or literary success}, the present has a way of contaminating the past. And the writing will change accordingly. Turmoil and dilemma once experienced with a certain desperation may be seen more complacently as the writer reflects that through expressing them he has realized his inevitable and well-deserved triumph. The lean years of patient toil when no one paid attention may even begin to seem preferable to the present. The very thing you created in the heat of fierce concentration has destroyed the circumstances that made it possible. The writer is devoured along with his books. — Tim Parks

These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid.
For he himself could not speak his deeper secret. — Kahlil Gibran