Marya Mannes Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 14, 1904 - September 13, 1990

Topics

AloneChanceNeverTwoMayWell

But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me.

Jimmy Chamberlin

FamilyMusicMeFriendsBackNow

Early on, I wrote a letter to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. I was 17. I felt called, moved.

John Lewis

KingEarlyMartin Luther KingMoved

I tell people the first time I decided to write a novel I was in my mid-20s, and it was, 'Well, it's time to see if I can do this.' I basically flipped a coin to see if I was going to write science fiction or if I was going to do a crime novel. The coin toss went to science fiction.

John Scalzi

ScienceTimePeopleI CanCrimeSee

I like to do a lot of research for my films and live my character.

Amy Jackson

LiveCharacterResearchLikeLot

We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.

Shimon Peres

MatterUpImagineWorkersInflation

I love being on the road with others, with a camera, but also being alone writing poetry.

Tony Harrison

LoveAlonePoetryBeing AloneRoad

I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn't need a caption; it should already convey an idea.

Mary Ellen Mark

PaintingWritingThinkPhotography

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

Lord Byron

TruthReligionHisHonourAbout

Everything I've done has had purpose and has been passionate and has been executed in the best way that I knew how. Maybe that's not the perfect way. Maybe that's not the easiest way. But it's the best way I knew how to do it.

Julia Roberts

BestPurposePerfectDoneWayBeen

Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can't survive here more than minutes if you're not equipped properly and doing the right thing all the time.

Jon Krakauer

TimeSurviveDoing The Right Thing

You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump?

Johnny Knoxville

FeetShortYouJumpFiveTen

I have a really full life, both within music and outside it.

Bonnie Raitt

LifeMusicOutsideWithinFullBoth

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