Manikins Quotes

#1. Those who have no real virtue within but outwardly rely on flowery cleverness are like leaky boats brightly painted - if you put manikins in them and set them on dry ground they look all right, but once they go into the rivers and lakes, into the wind and waves, are they not in danger?

Shambhala Publications

#2. They were all tall and slender with heads groomed like manikins' heads, and as they talked the heads waved gracefully above their dark tailored suits, rather like long-stemmed flowers and rather like cobras' hoods.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. The manikins, I mean the little men who held the shutters open during the day, those little metal figures: when you wanted to close the shutters you swivelled them round so that all night long they hung head down.

Amos Oz

#4. This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

O. Henry

#5. God is the composer; you are the song.

Steve Maraboli

#6. Change doesn't begin when we get knocked on our ass. It begins the moment we decide to get back up on our own feet

Dwayne Johnson

#7. A beautiful thought: It's just meaningless to except your partner to be of your kind because you can't hold someone right hand in your right hand to walk together.

Herryicm

#8. If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.

Sarah Silverman

#9. The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

Albert Camus

#10. An hour is not merely an hour; it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

Marcel Proust

#11. We now know that climate change is a driver of migration, and is expected to increase the displacement of populations.

Mary Robinson

#12. Is this why women wear heels? thought Jane. We hobble ourselves so we can still be rescued by men?

Shannon Hale

#13. It flashed upon Miss Pross's mind that the doors were all standing open, and would suggest the flight. Her first act was to shut them. There were four in the room, and she shut them all. She then placed herself before the door of the chamber which Lucie had occupied.

Charles Dickens

#14. Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

Philip Zimbardo

#15. The solitary creator, dreaming his or her dream, unaided, seems to me to be the only artist we can trust.

Harlan Ellison