Mandatos Quotes

#1. Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

Michel Houellebecq

#2. I wouldn't say that 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the major theme is our ever-evolving understanding of space and time, and what it all means for our sense of reality.

Brian Greene

#3. You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.

Terence McKenna

#4. I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

Brendan Fraser

#5. Basketball is not played simply with X's and O's. It's played with both trust and confidence.

Isiah Thomas

#6. Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.

Wesley Snipes

#7. It is very easy to say that the important thing is to try your best, but if you are in real trouble the most important thing is not trying your best, but getting to safety.

Lemony Snicket

#8. I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.

Conrad Veidt

#9. There is a balm in Gilead," she read from the back, "to make the wounded whole - " "There's power enough in Heaven / To cure a sin-sick soul.

Louise Penny

#10. Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.

Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

#11. I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

Beck

#12. Every writer needs two selves - the generative self and the editor self.

Mary Karr