Manis Quotes

#1. I think the men in L.A. are very rugged, good-looking. Men in New York look metro with their manis and pedis and their Bruno Magli loafers, but inside they're very masculine - aside from the Meatpacking District. The problem is the men in New York are five to one: five women to one man.

Patti Stanger

#2. Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

Stanislaw Lem

#3. Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose.

Manis Friedman

#4. I would rather kill myself than play my own music ... I can't stand it when people do that.

Jarvis Cocker

#5. If you help yourself to the benefits of being married when you are single, you're likely to help yourself to the benefits of being single when you're married.

Manis Friedman

#6. The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart ... converted it into a tomb.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#7. There was panic in my eyes. I looked into my own eyes and back down at my hands. Horrid age spots, two scars. Un-Indian, nervous, lonely hands. I could see children and men and gardens in my hands. His

Lucia Berlin

#8. I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.

Chuck Knox

#9. You cannot be anything but who you are, and you are not a killer. I am a killer, all I need to know is who you need for me to kill.

James Lee Nathan III