P.J. Mann Quotes

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

Come back, paragraphs. America needs you.

Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing for why they are not writing.

A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.

In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's place.

In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart.

When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed.

Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one

[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.

You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

I bring a poofy gray down jacket with me wherever I go. It's meant for winter, but I use it most in the summer, when everyone cranks up the air-conditioning.

America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.

If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

If you're in jazz and more than ten people like you, you're labeled commercial.

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.

My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.

If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability.

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.

He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.

For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.