Marya Mannes's Quotes
Born: 1904-11-14
Profession: Journalist
Nation: American
Biography of Marya Mannes
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Tags: Great, Lovers, RoadThe curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Tags: Dreams, End, RomanticThe sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
Tags: Control, Emotions, ReasonWomen are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
Tags: Cannot, Honest, WomenAll great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Tags: Great, Lovers, RoadThe 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.
Tags: End, Future, RevengeTiming and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
Tags: Arrogance, Successful, TalentFor 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.
Tags: Alone, Chance, MayBy the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
Tags: Age, Good, YourselfI don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.
Tags: Power, Real, SocietyIn our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
Tags: Pretend, Reality, SocietyLie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
Tags: Learn, Leave, LieMoney is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
Tags: Desire, May, MoneyIf 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.
Tags: Men, Money, WomenIt 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.
Tags: Communication, Enough, Show