Marya Mannes Quotes

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.

The New York Voice Reflects Its Diversity, Its Foreignness, And, Inevitably, The Sense Of Superiority New Yorkers Feel Or Come To Feel. It Says, Without Saying, We Know.

Performance Is An Act Of Faith.

Revelation Is The Marriage Of Knowing And Feeling.

Flirtation ... Is A Graceful Salute To Sex, A Small Impermanent Spark Between One Human Being And Another, Between A Man And A Woman Not In Need Of Fire.

Art Can Excite, Titillate, Please, Entertain, And Sometimes Shock; But Its Ultimate Function Is To Ennoble.

In Aid, The Proper Attitude Is One Omitting Gratitude

Slowly The Wasters And Despoilers Are Impoverishing Our Land, Our Nature, And Our Beauty, So That There Will Not Be One Beach, One Hill, One Lane, One Meadow, One Forest Free From The Debris Of Man And The Stigma Of His Improvidence.

Fear Has Always Been A Diminisher Of Life. Whether Bred In The Bogs Of Superstition Or Clothed In The Brocades Of Dogma And Ritual, The Specter Of Death Has Reduced The Living To Supplicants, Powerless.

In An Age Where The Lowered Eyelid Is Just A Sign Of Fatigue, The Delicate Game Of Love Is Pining Away. Freud And Flirtation Are Poor Companions.

A Candidate For Office Can Have No Greater Advantage Than Muddled Syntax; No Greater Liability Than A Command Of Language.

The Car, By Bisecting The Human Outline, Diminishes It, Producing A Race Of Half-people In A Motion Not Of Their Own Making