Herman J. Mankiewicz Quotes

You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.

Herman J. Mankiewicz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 7, 1897 - March 5, 1953

Topics

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I'm essentially a jeans girl, and I dress them up or down with accessories. For me, it's ultimately about a great pair of shoes.

Jessalyn Gilsig

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We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

Jesse Jackson

GreatnessMeasureDownUpMust

I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.

Robert Gottlieb

PeopleWritingHelpYouSayMean

I think there's a lot of, unfortunately, unfunny ventriloquists out there, so they've got a bad rap. It came after Edgar Bergen because everybody had a little cheeky boy dummy like Charlie McCarthy, and everybody decided to become a ventriloquist because Bergen had popularized it. He brought it back from the doldrums of vaudeville.

Jeff Dunham

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If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

Tony La Russa

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The ability to talk to kids and reach kids is a gift I've been given, and I may as well use it.

Montel Williams

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I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

Jaron Lanier

ScienceInterestingInformationGoal

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

Jonathan Lethem

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Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

David Strathairn

CultureLearnLiteratureTellFilm

In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.'

Bryan Volpenhein

GoodCookingFeelYouPerfectSay

Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.

Arvo Part

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Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

William Shakespeare

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