Manta Quotes

#1. I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday ... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me.

Stephen Fry

#2. If manta rays are going to be harmless, they should look more harmless, Pardee thought. Fuckers look like aquatic Draculas.

Christopher Moore

#3. Here comes his hand, planing slowly across the white tablecloth like a manta ray in one of those deep-sea documentaries. It's descending onto her own hand, which she shouldn't have left so carelessly lying around on the table.

Margaret Atwood

#4. I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World.

Thom Yorke

#5. You certainly don't fuck about trying to ride manta rays.

Douglas Adams

#6. No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize,

Julia Child

#7. We fall asleep on words / we wake among words

Zbigniew Herbert

#8. Then, since all my other options seemed to be exhausted, I decided it would be best if I fell off the roof.

Patrick Rothfuss

#9. The Bring the Noise buzz was so strong, so we put it out on a release called 'Attack of the Killer B's' which was a record made up of B-sides and things like that - so it wasn't out on our new album, you know what I mean? But we always felt strongly about it.

Charlie Benante

#10. Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better.

Seth Godin

#11. Rather than diminishing the idea of 'truly needing' a relationship - and trying to deny it, shame it, or talk ourselves out of it - why not just celebrate it? It's exactly what the world needs.

Tracy McMillan

#12. There's no doomsday scheme made specifically for mankind,
only higher agenda and priority than human race preservation.

Toba Beta

#13. The U. S. trade deficit with China shows that while we value the potential of their market, they value the reality of our market. It is in this area that we should use our leverage.

Adam Schiff

#14. You can't measure other people's love, Sugar.

Suzanne Palmieri

#15. One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.

Louisa May Alcott

#16. There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.

Mark Cuban

#17. The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

Hanif Kureishi

#19. If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.

Esther M. Friesner

#20. Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.

Frances Parkinson Keyes