Manguso Lab Quotes

#1. Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

Henry Tizard

#2. Every day I fantasise about situations and little themes I see in front of me that would make a good beginning of a story. But one has to be disciplined and just sit down and do it.

Emilia Fox

#3. Without a criterion enabling us to distinguish genuine human rights from the many impostors we will never be sure that our legal provisions, however wise, benevolent and responsible, will be secure against the individual desire to escape from them.

Roger Scruton

#4. Love, war, life was a series of battlefields strung together with the courage to march forward.

Elise Kova

#5. [The movie Beaches] was really about how women fight. Women fight, say terrible things to each other and an hour later they make up and go shopping. I think they got the better idea of how it should be done.

Garry Marshall

#6. Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

Lewis Carroll

#7. People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

Marianne Williamson

#8. I miss him," I whisper, enable to hold Cal's gaze. "I miss who I thought he was.

Victoria Aveyard

#9. Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

Frederic Henry Hedge

#10. Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back.
Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person - nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need.

Paulo Coelho

#11. Even painful memories are ties that bind.

Milan Kundera

#12. From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

Chris Priestley

#13. I don't know where I would be without music. Even if I wasn't a musician, I think music is God. In a lot of ways, it's my saving grave. It's been my religion since I was a little kid.

Allie Gonino

#14. Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there is no way that uncertainty can be compressed into determinate mathematical models.

Murray Rothbard