Manitoba Smith Quotes

#1. Ronan was always saying that he never lied, but he wore a liar's face.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. Our voices, wrapping around each other's, entwining, and then tugging free, in the pitch black.

Rick Yancey

#4. A truly beautiful person is one who is good at discovering beauty.

Daisaku Ikeda

#5. The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#6. You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not that bad. I'm certainly not a boy, and it's been a while since I've been a chef.

Anthony Bourdain

#7. Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I grew up outside of Washington, and I felt I was moving to a completely different place when I moved 30 miles north out of college.

David Simon

#8. Love is the only thing that changes abstinence from a prison into pleasure.

Jihad Eltabey

#9. I am not especially good at remembering the actualities of the world I inhabit, but I have pretty strong associative memories of how it feels to live in that world, and to wonder at its weird machinations, at any age.

Scott Bradfield

#10. Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected, in this case I would think interesting would suffice.

Leonard Nimoy

#11. I was terribly, painfully present in the world, and so far removed from it.

Lia Habel

#12. The U.N. power comes from concerted action of the governments.

Kofi Annan

#13. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.

Richard Ellmann

#14. I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it.

Juan Manuel Fangio