Quotes About Manikin

#1. Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.

Henry Adams

#2. I found the word dwarf really offensive, but there was not one better synonym in the dictionary. Midget? Pygmy? Manikin? Homunculus? They all sounded worse to me, so I had to accept my fate.

Nick Nwaogu

#3. And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering manikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him.

Ray Bradbury

#4. Shake yourself free from the manikin you create out of a false interpretation of what you do and what you feel, and you'll at once see that the manikin you make yourself is nothing at all like what you really are or what you really can be!

Luigi Pirandello

#5. They're true, aren't they? (Lorelei)
I guess it depends on whom you ask. What I've learned over the years is that truth is never so easy. And every person sees a different reality. (Jack)

Kinley MacGregor

#6. 1617I swear in that moment we were infinite

Stephen Chbosky

#7. The bulk of our community is probably between the ages of 20 and 34.

Erwin McManus

#8. No one is perfect, Jet. We all have things that have happened, that are going to happen that make us who we are, and maybe you need to look past all the superficial stuff you see when you look at this girl and see what's underneath.

Jay Crownover

#9. You don't forget. You just move past it. Let go. Be who you were supposed to be instead of who they make you feel like you should be

Jessica Sorensen

#10. Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.

Thomas J. Watson Jr.

#11. Stop trying to get more in life and try to be more for life. That's where lasting happiness lies.

Robin S. Sharma

#12. A partner who rolls her eyes, sighs, turns away, sends a very toxic message.

Steve Biddulph

#13. War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

Norman Cousins

#14. Love has a reason There's a meaning to the world We're giving love.

Gavin DeGraw

#15. The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest.

P.J. Parker

#16. Anger was less painful than abandonment.

Kody Keplinger

#17. I am with you always. You just have to find me by opening your inner eyes and closing your egocentric mind.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Our triumphant age of plenty is riddled with darker feelings of doubt, cynicism, distrust, boredom and a strange kind of emptiness

Samuel Johnson

#19. I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.

Damien Rice