Manes Quotes

#1. Comparing the humped herds of whales with the humped herds of buffalo, which, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes

Herman Melville

#2. In sixth and seventh grade, my two best friends and I pretended to be horses. Every day after school, we would gallop around, whinnying and stamping our hooves and tossing our manes - for hours.

Tyne Daly

#3. Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

Ogden Nash

#5. In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.

Dean Koontz

#6. Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

Andrew Jackson

#7. The horses wore no gear at all but a halter without bit. Their manes were braided with streamers of silver, gold, and green. They flared their nostrils and pranced and boasted to one another; they were vastly excited, the horse being the only animal who has adopted our ceremonies as his own.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#8. Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?

Nikolai Gogol

#9. Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.

Ezra Pound

#10. Grazing around a perfect little stream ahead of them, to their amazement, was a herd of unicorns. They were beautiful: white with silver horns, silver hooves, and silver manes. Conner's

Chris Colfer

#11. Food sacred to the manes or to the gods must be given to a man distinguished by sacred knowledge, for hands, smeared with blood, cannot be cleansed with blood.

Guru Nanak

#12. I imagine horses in the engine, their manes flying, their breaths steaming, their nostrils flaring as they gallop.

Jenny Downham

#13. The floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave ... Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient ... you would have sworn ... as the white horses of the wave crests are to pull of the moon.

Mary Stewart

#14. i want to be a singer

Stephen Manes

#15. We're so undefined, so fleeting and fragile and new, but I don't think he could belong to anyone else, and I couldn't belong to anyone else but him.

Karina Halle

#16. Like IBM, the company [Microsoft] seems to have been spooked by the federal antitrust action against it and became increasingly sclerotic and less inventive.

Stephen Manes

#17. Look after my friends, won't you, Kaleb?"
"Stop making so many."
"I love you, too.

Nalini Singh

#18. The only tactics I admire are do-or-die

Herb Elliott

#19. Sin is a universal, trans-cultural reality;

J.I. Packer

#20. Microsoft is no longer thought of as the company where the smartest people want to work.

Stephen Manes

#21. I believe in my sacred soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. We need to get over that myth. There was nothing Judeo-Christian about American history. Nobody liked Catholics and Jews. It's Anglo-Protestant values, not Judeo-Christian values. Even Maryland very quickly stopped being so Catholic-friendly.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#23. I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.

Norah Jones

#24. You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week.

Stephen Manes

#25. The worldly life is constantly ablaze. To keep expectation, that it will extinguish, is wrong. So then we too should say to it, 'you can keep on burning!

Dada Bhagwan