Manchurian Quotes

#1. The other part of seeing what is on the block is appreciating how limited our own view is. We are limited by our sensory abilities, by our species membership, by our narrow attention - at least the last of which can be overcome.

Alexandra Horowitz

#2. Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature such as self preservation? (CIA Document, Project ARTICHOKE, MORI ID 144686, 1952)
As cited by Dr Ellen P. Lacter, p57

Orit Badouk Epstein

#3. Gatsby looked at Daisy in a way that every young girl wanted to be looked at

F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.

Jim Jarmusch

#5. Manchurian Candidate work was done under MKULTRA Subproject 136, which was approved for funding on August 23, 1961.

Colin A. Ross

#6. I've also found that at the bottom of all of these qualities is love. If you have enough love you have enough courage, enough love then you have patience.

Dorothy Maclean

#7. Learning by faith and from experience are two of the central features of the Father's plan of happiness. The Savior preserved moral agency through the Atonement and made it possible for us to act and to learn by faith.

David A. Bednar

#8. I am not dead inside. I still care about right and wrong.

Juliana Hatfield

#9. When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.

Fionnula Flanagan

#10. When you're an artist, your personal life and your professional life kind of blend together. I'm writing from home so I don't have an office or anything. I don't know where to draw the line between "Okay, let's stop now and watch American Idol."

Daryl Wein

#11. It seems likely MK-Ultra or a Manchurian Candidate, or possibly both, may have been involved in the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the US Presidential candidate most political analysts agree would have been elected President had he lived.

James Morcan

#12. Ambition is a funny thing. You can completely screw yourself with it if you're not careful.

Simon Le Bon

#13. I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.

Groucho Marx

#14. The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.

Stephen Gardiner

#15. I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

Juliette Binoche

#16. Leaders tap into the emotions of their people by getting excited themselves

Brian Tracy

#17. The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.

Ken Follett

#18. Like manchurian candidates, we have been made into manchurian consumers, who subconsciously buy when we are triggered by our brand masters.

Bryant H. McGill

#19. The Manchurian Candidate was the most important movie I was in, let's face it.

Angela Lansbury

#20. Oh, my dear, this is worse than I expected! A strange girl is always a bore among good friends, but one can generally manage her. But a girl who writes books - why, it isn't respectable! And you can't snub that sort of people; they're unsnubbable.

Elizabeth Von Arnim