#not

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#contracts #enter #free #free men #into

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#i #kill #knowing #me #morning

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another. ↗

— Edouard Manet

#another #areas #colour #lines #nature

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#cannot #fight #his #i #imagine

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#because #both #college #degree #everyone

There's nothing as real as money. ↗

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#nothing #real

I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs. ↗

— Barry Mann

#catalog #go #great #i #looked

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know. ↗

— Barry Mann

#creating #cynthia #generally #i #know

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. ↗

— Horace Mann

#cable #cannot #day #each #habit

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. ↗

— Horace Mann

#nothing #others #ourselves #undoing