Marya Mannes Quotes
22 Marya Mannes quotes:
"The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality"
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"Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent."
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"I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society."
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"By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth."
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"It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere."
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"Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier."
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"Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them."
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"The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason"
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"Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier"
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"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 along the map turn red"
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"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."
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"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."
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"All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."
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"All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."
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"The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason."
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"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not."
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"It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better."
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"The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality."
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"By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth"
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"In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude."
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