Manenti Quotes

#1. The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

Tony Hoagland

#2. The secret of a good lie is don't overly explain, and throw in one good detail.

Sue Monk Kidd

#3. Worry, hate, fear-together with their offshoots: anxiety, bitterness, impatience, avarice, unkindness, judgmentalness, and condemnation-all attack the body at the cellular level. It is impossible to have a healthy body under these conditions.

Neale Donald Walsch

#4. I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.

Fran Lebowitz

#5. He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers for the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones until it now said something it had never said to him before, which was "yes".

Douglas Adams

#6. The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.

Mike Lofgren

#7. I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.

Action Bronson

#8. I read books, I ate when compelled, I sometimes wrote embellished accounts of my day in a leather-bound black diary. I was the sort of child who generally had to be coerced into playing with other children.

Danielle Evans

#9. The thing about denying someone their voice in this life is that it tends to come out in death.

J. Michael Straczynski

#10. I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end.

Flann O'Brien

#11. All I ever wanted was a world without maps.

Michael Ondaatje

#12. He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.

Flannery O'Connor

#13. There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

Louis Garrel