Mannahatta Restaurant Quotes

#1. I think the '80s created me, in a way, when I look back on that time, but I don't necessarily think that a lot of my choices, and a lot of things that I did, and a lot of things that happened to me - or I let happen to me - were about that decade.

Bret Easton Ellis

#2. Dialectic logic is there's only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them.

Dennis Hopper

#3. Let's talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job.

Minoru Yamasaki

#4. The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.

Michelle Tea

#5. Scientific method seeks to understand things as they are, while alchemy seeks to bring about a desired state of affairs. To put it another way, the primary objective of science is truth, - that of alchemy, operational success.

George Soros

#6. I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.

Bruce Springsteen

#7. The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.

Jonathan Swift

#8. Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

Paul Russell

#9. Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.

Chuck Close

#10. You may have had countless lives, and many more stretching before you, and what else have you got to do with your time?

Frederick Lenz

#11. An ad hominen attack against an intellectual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#12. Artemis: How long will it take you to prepare the time spell?
N1 chewed his knuckle: About as long as it takes you to take your clothes off.
"Aaarrk," Artemis half choked.

Eoin Colfer

#13. By thinking globally I can analyze all phenomena, but when it comes to acting, it can only be local and on a grassroots level if it is to be honest, realistic, and authentic.

Jacques Ellul