Menaka Quotes

#1. The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait,
A revenge not only necessary but right and clever
Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.

Donald Justice

#2. The stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results.

Robert Moss

#3. Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.

Sam Harris

#4. In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.

Hermann Hesse

#5. higher income is associated with a reduced ability to enjoy the small pleasures of life.

Daniel Kahneman

#6. If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

Laurell K. Hamilton

#7. I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have to be convinced and I have to be surprised.

Lorraine Adams

#8. Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren't looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.

Diane Keaton

#9. Great steaming elephant turds!

Terry Pratchett

#10. I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.

Jonathan Sacks

#11. The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.

William Wordsworth

#12. But I wish to be enlightened.'
'Let me caution you against it.'
'Is enlightenment on the subject, then, so terrible?'
'Yes, indeed.'
She laughingly declared that nothing could have so piqued her curiosity as his statement.

Thomas Hardy