Best Manages Quotations
131 Manages quotes by 121 unique authors
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Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's…
— Liam Neeson
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I'm always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to…
— Susan Orlean
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto…
— Ayelet Waldman
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What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.
— Len Wein
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If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes…
— John Irving
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At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky,…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with him. He covers…
— Lance Armstrong
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I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.
— Haruki Murakami
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It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.
— Louise Bourgeois
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As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing.
— Mark Helprin
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Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job is to break…
— Henry Cloud
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I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him. His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me through a haze of opiates. "Hey,…
— Suzanne Collins
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He can occasionally see to an enemy," she conceded. "If he manages to get his sword pointed in the right direction and the enemy does…
— Lynn Kurland
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Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it. And then he'll…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
— Beverly Cleary
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History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved…
— Terry Pratchett
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The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Dear God,” said Will, looking from Charlotte to Nate and back again. “Is there anything that makes women sillier than the sight of a wounded…
— Cassandra Clare
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After all, you’re only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.
— Simon R. Green
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No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of these provides a…
— Deepak Chopra
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Finally, Peeta turns to Pollux. "Well, then you just became our most valuable asset." Castor laughs and Pollux manages a smile. We're halfway down the…
— Suzanne Collins
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