Maunya Jacobs Quotes

#1. I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

Zona Gale

#2. Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives to development thus become a drag upon it whenever life's needs demand new forms that are not recognised by the prevailing idealism.

Ellen Key

#3. You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story ... is you.

Jonathan Kent

#4. You can't stay mad at someone who makes you laugh.

Jay Leno

#5. It was this feeling for a lot of my characters, who are dissidents or banned artists and writers, that they had had to fight living under so much surveillance, and then suddenly they come to America and they're like, I'm not being surveilled - I'm not even being noticed at all.

Molly Antopol

#6. It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations
past and present
are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.

Eric Hoffer

#7. Sometimes you completely forget your own works, your own poems, and your own words, but others remember them line by line, word for word! That is the greatest present you can ever have for your works!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

Mikhail Baryshnikov