Marya Mannes Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Revenge #Abuse #Earth

“People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Horse #Car #People

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

#Reality #Our Society #Accepted

“Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Generosity #Strings #Deals

“Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Way #Honest #Accused

“Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Successful #Arrogance #Use

“It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Privilege #Moments #Awareness

“The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Art #Effort #Age

“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.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Loss #Sisterhood #Men

“Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Nature #Lying #Down And

“The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Leaks

“Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.”
-- Marya Mannes

#War #Heart #Men

“The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Loneliness #Being Alone #Space

“Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Business #Responsibility #Feelings

“You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Equality #White #Racism

“Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Change #Fear #Progress

“on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Dream #Real #Moving

“the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making”
-- Marya Mannes

#Race #Car #People

“the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Team #Heart #Technology

“Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?”
-- Marya Mannes

#Mean #Two #Differences

“Is there no end to this escalation of desire?”
-- Marya Mannes

#Desire #Ends #Escalation

“One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Forgiveness #Poor

“In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Men #Race #Greed

“You cannot know what you do not feel.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Feelings #Feels

“Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Expression #Desire #Admission

“An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Making Money #Neighbor

“I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Party #Writing #Thinking

“Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Party #Political #Holding On

“Infants are interesting only to their parents.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Interesting #Parent #Infant

“There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.”
-- Marya Mannes

#Solitude #Important #Detachment