P.J. Mann Quotes

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

Avoid witticisms at the expense of Others.

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.

It's not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.

Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.

You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame

Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

I've always surrounded myself with funny people.

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting.

What's interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren't interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict - or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.

At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit.

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable.

People don't buy records anymore. I don't know how people can support themselves.

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.

I'm really into boxing. I go to a gym and I'm friends with a trainer who's a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.

We became the songs we wrote.

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.

A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.

The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.

Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

I wanted to be in an anti-gravity machine so bad! Maybe a different time, a different place.

I'm not going to lie. I would definitely steal stuff from set.

Anytime anybody does anything - unless it's in the realm of the obviously awful, which is fun too in a different way - it is in many ways a success.

I have a million story-lines for 'Revenge' and they never listen to me.

For me as an actor because I've been at it so long, it becomes much harder to watch movies because you really see the seams of everything.

It's funny, people talk about the characters they play and who do you sort of see yourself as or which ones maybe were closest to you and in some ways.

One thing I loved about New Zealand was the indoor/outdoor lifestyle of the place.