Manyak Text Quotes

#1. Before you start trying to work out which direction the property market is headed, you should be aware that there are markets within markets.

Paul Clitheroe

#2. As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

#3. Pommel of his saddle and his helmet with a nose-piece, arms which might well prevent him from reaching any conclusions based on humanitarian logic,

Jose Saramago

#4. On the drive home, I started playing my new flute. Mom never lets me play in the car because she's afraid someone might crash into us and my flute will impale me into the seat. I find that ridiculous, because how could that even happen?

Maria Semple

#5. It's only that I feel an injustice has been committed. Why should I have somebody else's malaria and you have my dose of clap?

Joseph Heller

#6. All of my plays are about people missing the boat, closing down too young, coming to the end of their lives with regret at things not done, as opposed to things done. II find most people spend too much time living as if they're never going to die.

Edward Albee

#7. Smile to the future and it will smile back to you

Yoko Ono

#8. I've been sober for so many years. It wasn't like you flick a switch, and you're sober. It takes a while. You have to learn how to do everything all over again. You can measure how long that takes in terms of years.

Joe Walsh

#9. I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.

Gary Shteyngart

#10. When I began my career as a writer I thought it would be fun to put my imagination to the page. Now I am finding out that my imagination is able to fill in those pesky holes called details all on its own, and then neglecting to tell me how it did it.

Jonathan Bender

#11. I love this one in A. J. Jacobs "The Year of Living Bibically". Jacobs has a Jewish friend living in Wisconsin who tells Jacobs the Jews there refer to themselves as "the frozen chosen".

A. J. Jacobs

#12. If, at the office or in different exchanges in daily living, you have to spend time with people who are at lower power levels, then you have to be aware of that and keep your awareness very much within.

Frederick Lenz

#13. I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

Padma Lakshmi