FastSaying

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.


Thomas Mann

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

He whose hands are clean does not like to hold an office; he who desires nothing cares not for bodil...
CHANAKYA He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) He who desires is always poor.
CLAUDIANUS Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence
WILLIAM BLAKE Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man. [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
ABU BAKR He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The person who desires to be rich alone is unwise,for he can go broke tomorrow,but the one who desir...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has...
THOMAS FULLER He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
LAO TZU Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas...
LIN YUTANG He is not wise to me who is wise in words only, but he who is wise in deeds.
SAINT GREGORY The family wants to express their deepest sympathies to those who were hurt in the chase. So does Mr...
CHRIS FLOOD He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
JOHN MILTON He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king
JOHN MILTON He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool - shun him. He who knows not and knows he ...
PROVERB He who knows he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows no...
PROVERB He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
JOHN MILTON He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
JOHN MILTON He who knows not, knows not, he knows not, he is a fool shun him.
He who knows not and knows h...
BRUCE LEE He who knows not, knows not, he knows not, he is a fool shun him.
He who knows not and he know...
BRUCE LEE Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who kno...
LADY BURTON In order to get where God desires to take you, you have to become who He is desires to make you.
MAURICE W. LINDSAY He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.
SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND (2) He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
WILLIAM DRUMMOND He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave
WILLIAM DRUMMOND No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires mo...
JEREMY TAYLOR He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool. Shun him. He who knows not and knows tha...
ARAB PROVERB He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows ...
PERSIAN PROVERB He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
VOLTAIRE He is the good guy in this portrayal. In fact, he is not only the good guy, he is the only apostle w...
BART EHRMAN He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
VOLTAIRE He who is not tempted, what does he know? And he who is not tried, what are the things he knows? Ecc...
BIBLE Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI My time has is here, my mission has failed, but in spite of my limitations i will never loose faith....
RYAN LEONARD He wasn't aware of it but when he smiled he looked like an amiable bear. When he didn't smile he did...
EMMA GOLDRICK He [Mann] always found the good in everyone. When you're dealing with someone who is so willing to h...
HAZEL SMITH After all, only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master o...
LIN YUTANG Only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
ANTON CHEKHOV When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what ...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what ...
VOLTAIRE The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who c...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
AYN RAND He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
UNKNOWN He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
ANONYMOUS “He who believes is ignorant. He who knows is knowledgeable. And he who asks is the smartest”
SHAHAF YEFET He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him;
He Who Knows Not And Knows Not...
CONFUCIUS It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the w...
HENRY FORD The man who desires to become rich, desires to become rich quickly and quickly fail if he wants to b...
VIKRANT PARSAI Ik wil alleen een hand
om mij aan vast te houden. Geen waarheid,
maar een goed verhaal, ...
JOHANNA PAS To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is no...
SAMUEL BUTLER Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
ERICH FROMM Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe ...
SUI HE Since raised blood pressure is the major cause of stroke, the blood pressure lowering effect of pota...
FENG HE As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improv...
SUI HE I like to find old things
and I picked up that arrowhead
in tears, that broken point
...
LI HE These findings provide strong support for the recommendations encouraging the public to consume more...
FENG HE The average fruit and vegetable intake in most developed countries is about three servings per day, ...
FENG HE They are the Chinese heroes. I am happy for their performance and the result is not the most importa...
HE ZHENLIANG This will be conducive to the development of Sino-US relations and China's relationships with the re...
HE YAFEI The best way to resolve Sino-US trade imbalance is to expand bilateral trade cooperation. Restrictin...
HE YAFEI They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union and they don't know how to act.
HE YAFEI We are willing to import more U.S. goods.
HE YAFEI Even when he's making dumplings with peasants, he speaks memorized words and sounds like a People's ...
HE WEIFANG This is a critical moment. There is a lot of opposition to continuing the reforms as they are today.
HE WEIFANG I unequivocally state the wish that the Communist Party should become two parties.
HE WEIFANG The situation exists in almost every well-known Chinese university.
HE WEIFANG The government really wants to slow down investment, but it can't control local governments who have...
HE FAN The new managed floating currency regime is just an interim system. There is a chance of a further w...
HE FAN Eventually, we found that the situation there was more serious than what we imagined.
HE CHANGCHUI Part of our mission is to find out what kind of assistance is required.
HE CHANGCHUI He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes...
WILLIAM HAZLITT He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from...
MUHAMMAD ..So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 1 Cor...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON 'Tis my opinion every man cheats in his own way, and he is only honest who is not discovered
SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he who express himself by words or drawing then...
AMEN MUFFLER God’s justice is higher than merely punishing someone who has committed an injustice—He desires ...
JESSICA NICHOLAS Success is not in what you have, but who you are.
BO BENNETT The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream
HARRY KEMP He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.
RICHARD WHATLEY He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with hi...
GIOVANNI FALCONE He who desires to become rich, wishes to become so as quickly as possible.
UNKNOWN He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform wh...
GEORGE SHELLEY He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
LORD BYRON Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear? [Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?]
GEORGE HERBERT He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
CONFUCIUS He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
CONFUCIUS He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Then August knew. Thomas didn’t dwell on things. Thomas was strong, and he didn’t know what it w...
KRIS NOEL He who thinks he knows, doesn’t know. He who knows that he doesn’t know, knows. For in this cont...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for ...
CHANAKYA He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking.
LISA EDMONDSON He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

More Thomas Mann

Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
THOMAS MANN It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANN Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
THOMAS MANN What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic s...
THOMAS MANN The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
THOMAS MANN But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright childre...
THOMAS MANN Time cools; time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
THOMAS MANN War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
THOMAS MANN Time has no division to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to anno...
THOMAS MANN Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, lik...
THOMAS MANN This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - in so f...
THOMAS MANN The electrifying influence exercised on a whole generation just after the First World War by Demi...
THOMAS MANN There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal...
THOMAS MANN Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
THOMAS MANN An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech ...
THOMAS MANN Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
THOMAS MANN Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.
THOMAS MANN If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
THOMAS MANN We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever ...
THOMAS MANN It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent...
THOMAS MANN Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
THOMAS MANN You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simpl...
THOMAS MANN Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.
THOMAS MANN The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling,...
THOMAS MANN I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount ...
THOMAS MANN Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.
THOMAS MANN A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
THOMAS MANN Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
THOMAS MANN What is uttered is finished and done with.
THOMAS MANN Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, ...
THOMAS MANN A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once m...
THOMAS MANN Speech is civilization itself... It is silence which isolates.
THOMAS MANN Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also,...
THOMAS MANN For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endura...
THOMAS MANN And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was neare...
THOMAS MANN For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.
THOMAS MANN Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysteric...
THOMAS MANN Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to an...
THOMAS MANN I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
THOMAS MANN Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject
THOMAS MANN We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of the...
THOMAS MANN The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by fut...
THOMAS MANN War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
THOMAS MANN A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
THOMAS MANN Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
THOMAS MANN No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
THOMAS MANN All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
THOMAS MANN A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
THOMAS MANN A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
THOMAS MANN Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroun...
THOMAS MANN One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator
THOMAS MANN A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, th...
THOMAS MANN For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company wit...
THOMAS MANN For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life...
THOMAS MANN Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact / it is silence which isolates.
THOMAS MANN The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while ...
THOMAS MANN Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
THOMAS MANN What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in Ge...
THOMAS MANN Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them
THOMAS MANN Два дня пути уже успели отдалить этого человека, к тому...
MANN THOMAS The artist eye has a mythical slant upon life; therefore, the mythological realm - the world of the ...
THOMAS MANN Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of ...
THOMAS MANN To find peace in the presence of the faultless is the desire of the one who seeks excellence; and is...
THOMAS MANN Нет отношений страннее и щекотливее, чем отношения люд...
THOMAS MANN It is probably better that the world knows only the result, not the conditions under which it was ac...
THOMAS MANN The happiness of writers is the thought that can be entirely emotion and the emotion that can be ent...
THOMAS MANN The observations and encounters of a man of solitude and few words are at once more nebulous and mor...
THOMAS MANN A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and mo...
THOMAS MANN The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more in...
THOMAS MANN Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by ...
THOMAS MANN He loved the sea for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to ta...
THOMAS MANN Protestantism harbors within it certain elements – just as the Great Reformer himself harbored suc...
THOMAS MANN There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacen...
THOMAS MANN Wahrscheinlich kann man vom Nichtwollen seelisch nicht leben; eine Sache nicht tun wollen, das ist a...
THOMAS MANN A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
THOMAS MANN Die älteste Sprache, sagt man, sei das Indogermanische, Indo-europäische, das Sanskrit. Aber es is...
THOMAS MANN But a man of tender sensitivities finds disruption unpleasant; he finds it unpleasant to break in on...
THOMAS MANN This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so f...
THOMAS MANN This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected- in so ...
THOMAS MANN He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer
THOMAS MANN Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours
THOMAS MANN I don't think anyone is thinking long-term now.
THOMAS MANN Beauty can pierce one like a pain.
THOMAS MANN The president is asserting an inherent constitutional authority in 'wartime' that allows him to igno...
THOMAS MANN The president is in serious political trouble. The prospects for November look dire. Right now Democ...
THOMAS MANN The Sorrows and Grandeur of Richard Wagner!
THOMAS MANN What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back;...
THOMAS MANN Literature. . . is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
THOMAS MANN We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their q...
THOMAS MANN It could become much worse.
THOMAS MANN If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere. You even smell it.
THOMAS MANN A harmful truth is better than a useful lie
THOMAS MANN Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate
THOMAS MANN A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own
THOMAS MANN People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives
THOMAS MANN A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
THOMAS MANN Njeriu jeton jo vetëm jetën e vet personale, por, me vetëdije apo pa vetëdije edhe atë të epok...
THOMAS MANN We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of m...
THOMAS MANN What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but...
THOMAS MANN L'amour affronte la Mort ; lui seul, non pas la vertu, est plus fort qu'elle. Lui seul (pas la vertu...
THOMAS MANN The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.
THOMAS MANN Consciousness of self was an inherent function of matter once it was organized as life, and if that ...
THOMAS MANN In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure...
THOMAS MANN A man's dying is more the survivors affair than his own
THOMAS MANN There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
THOMAS MANN I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
THOMAS MANN Recreation", which is to say: a refreshing exercise of the organism, because it was in immediate dan...
THOMAS MANN What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
THOMAS MANN He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
THOMAS MANN [...] Et ma fièvre ? D'où vient-elle ?
- Allons donc, c'est un incident sans conséquence qui...
THOMAS MANN Eh bien, toi, qu'est-ce qui t'arrive ? Il fait si beau temps. [...] Quelle mouche t'a piqué ?
...
THOMAS MANN Don't you love to look at coffins? I've always enjoyed looking at one now and then. I think of a cof...
THOMAS MANN He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was im...
THOMAS MANN One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one ref...
THOMAS MANN One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making ...
THOMAS MANN Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfu...
THOMAS MANN This is a choice that makes overwhelming sense.
THOMAS MANN Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
THOMAS MANN Often, the outward and visible material signs and symbols of happiness and success only show themsel...
THOMAS MANN [...] l'homme, lui aussi, est un être dualiste. Le problème de son âme consiste dans le conflit e...
THOMAS MANN Miss von Osterloh had looked through it once during an idle fifteen minutes and pronunce it "quite s...
THOMAS MANN What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-co...
THOMAS MANN Caustique ? Vous voulez dire : méchant ? Oui, je suis un peu méchant, dit Settembrini. Mon regret ...
THOMAS MANN Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice whe...
THOMAS MANN For passion, like crime does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life. It w...
THOMAS MANN Oui, lorsqu'on surveille le temps, il passe très lentement. J'aime beaucoup la température, quatre...
THOMAS MANN Men do not know why they award fame to one work of art rather than another. Without being in the fai...
THOMAS MANN Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.
THOMAS E. MANN Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk t...
THOMAS E. MANN Party and ideology routinely trump institutional interests and responsibilities. Regular order - the...
THOMAS E. MANN Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with...
THOMAS E. MANN In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ide...
THOMAS E. MANN Incumbency adds a layer of advantage on top of this party dominance. But rather than foster an envir...
THOMAS E. MANN Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican ...
THOMAS E. MANN A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisa...
THOMAS E. MANN Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and...
THOMAS E. MANN Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and s...
THOMAS E. MANN Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully b...
THOMAS E. MANN All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September...
THOMAS E. MANN The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attac...
THOMAS E. MANN But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
THOMAS E. MANN In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, w...
THOMAS E. MANN Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan off...
THOMAS E. MANN First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerate...
THOMAS E. MANN Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas.
THOMAS E. MANN If those train wrecks and if that gamesmanship is being driven by broad political forces, narrow mar...
THOMAS MANN (BROOKINGS INSTITUTION) It could become much worse. I could imagine a scenario in the next presidential election in which we...
THOMAS MANN (BROOKINGS INSTITUTION) This is the ugliest period in our politics in many decades, ... tribalism.
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST) I think was Harry Truman who said, 'If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic,' ... The...
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST) The energy on cultural issues has been on the side of the conservatives,
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST) In the old days, [the committee] raised small amounts of money, doled it out to people who didn't ne...
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST) I think Governor Bush can feel very confident that Cheney will not be a negative and will be a marve...
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST) The problem will be finding floor time, especially in the Senate, where Supreme Court nominations, a...
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST) They feel emboldened in a way that they weren't after 9-11. They see that their criticisms help shap...
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST) You don't keep real confidence in the economy when you hear that the Social Security system is going...
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST) They are trying to neutralize this issue cluster with Kerry's war record and with lots of pleasing r...
THOMAS MANN (BROOKINGS INSTITUTION) On every other aspect of his agenda, he is pretty close to dead in the water. This is one area of pr...
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST) Eventually, my highbrow parents, who so hated the Eisenhower suburban culture of the 1950s that the ...
SALLY MANN The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while re...
SALLY MANN I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, hi...
SALLY MANN Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, bo...
SALLY MANN I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
SALLY MANN I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to t...
SALLY MANN I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.
SALLY MANN I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
SALLY MANN At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the ...
SALLY MANN It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and...
SALLY MANN If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.
SALLY MANN I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, an...
SALLY MANN Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.
SALLY MANN I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packe...
SALLY MANN To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
SALLY MANN Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable.
SALLY MANN Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the ...
SALLY MANN I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My f...
SALLY MANN I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about...
SALLY MANN You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the abi...
SALLY MANN When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living condit...
SALLY MANN I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity...
SALLY MANN When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a...
SALLY MANN Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost inst...
SALLY MANN In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because o...
MANFRED MANN The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a ...
MANFRED MANN I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the coun...
MANFRED MANN The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.
HEINRICH MANN More will sometimes be demanded of you than is reasonable. Bear it meekly, and exhaust your time and...
HORACE MANN Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
HORACE MANN To pity, distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
HORACE MANN The Forgotten Arm. I don't know if we'd do an acoustic thing or bring the band back or what we'd do ...
AIMEE MANN We recorded the band pretty much live.
AIMEE MANN I'm not into music as a consumer. A songwriter should share their outlook with a measure of honesty,...
AIMEE MANN Something isn't right ? I don't know how I know,
AIMEE MANN I really wanted the record to have a ... feel of an era,
AIMEE MANN I don't think it's really a term you would come across in boxing. I have a friend who is a boxer who...
AIMEE MANN You pay to get radio play, pretty much, ... and you get what you pay for. It's not really a level pl...
AIMEE MANN The guy's a Vietnam vet and a boxer, but he's also a drug addict, and she's trying to get away from ...
AIMEE MANN Listen, I'm out of this system, man, I'm out... I'm doing better than ever. I couldn't be more happy...
AIMEE MANN I feel really special, I do. No matter how temporary it may be. You're only as cool as your last coo...
AIMEE MANN It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
BARRY MANN You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
BARRY MANN