Manse Quotes

#1. To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.

Woodrow Wilson

#2. Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

Anton Chekhov

#3. The fact is, I can have any experience of life I want. I don't have to choose any one thing or act in any one way to define myself as a woman now. I am one.

Ally Sheedy

#4. I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

Rupert Murdoch

#5. There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them.

Marc Andreessen

#6. Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. Don't spoil him. Don't try to influence him. Your influence would be bad. The world is wide and has many marvellous people in it. Don't take away from me the one person who gives to my art whatever charm that possesses: my life as an artist depends on him.

Oscar Wilde

#8. Frank's phone beep-beeped and vibrated before he'd put it back in his pocket:
Love to! xx
Man. Two kisses already. The woman was a nymphomaniac.

R.G. Manse

#9. A president must serve only the common cause of the people of the United States.

Mitt Romney

#10. Was a new family in the manse. And such a family! Miss Cornelia shook her head over them several times as she walked briskly along. Susan Baker

L.M. Montgomery

#11. To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate.

Jean De La Bruyere

#12. Have we not done enough by our duty, Shireen? Do we not also have a duty to ourselves?

Amitav Ghosh

#13. I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.

Hunter S. Thompson

#14. Always ask, you might get a yes.

Rena Manse

#15. Thou shalt say a thousand things, and saying them a thousand times over, thou shalt still have said nothing!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#16. Rosy waited as long as she dared then sat forward and let her eye rove Franny's lounge, up and down the shelves, looking for something, not even sure she could bring herself to act if she saw it again, already convinced this was her worst ever idea

R.G. Manse

#17. Win," Leo said, "you'll burn the house down, just after it's been rebuilt. Give me the bloody matchbox."
She shook her head resolutely.
Are we starting a new springtime ritual?" Leo demanded. "The annual burning-of-the-manse?" Come to your senses, Win.

Lisa Kleypas

#18. Have you ever seen An American Werewolf in London? Well, I'm not American. I'm not a werewolf, and this isn't London.

Lynsay Sands