Mantilhas Menino Quotes

#1. The kiss of peace, which was part of the ritual of the mass, was the symbol of trust, and no contract, from a wedding to a truce, was complete without it.

Ken Follett

#2. Our task is a great one, not just because of how far we have fallen. Our task is a great one because of the challenges facing the people we seek to serve.

Johann Lamont

#3. You've got to believe in yourself, you've got to have a very clear vision, and you've got have the fire in the belly and go out and not be shy with working because it takes a lot of work.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#4. Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

Adam Savage

#5. Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. You believe what you must in order to stave off the conviction that it's all a tale told by an idiot

Peter De Vries

#7. If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

Voltaire

#8. I started thinking about the endings of novels not because I think endings are so important, but because I think they're actually not as important as they're sometimes given credit for.

Lev Grossman

#9. Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong.

Tamara Mellon

#10. A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.

Sean Wilsey

#11. Treat God like a dangerous loony - keep him calm and stay on his good side.

Herb Gardner