Marya Mannes - Best Quotes

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Attitude

In aid the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

Marya Mannes

In aid the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

Loneliness

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

Marya Mannes

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Marya Mannes

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

If American men are obsessed with money American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain the women talk of loss and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

All really great lovers are articulate and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will in the end take their revenge for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams an intensity of expectation that in the end diminishes the reality.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

In aid the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.