#ring

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#beginning #begins #bells #century #divisions

If 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. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#american #american men #american women #boring #gain

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up. ↗

— Jayne Mansfield

#bring #children #else #everywhere #go

Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos, a lawless situation. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#become #bringing #chaos #could #devalued

I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#any #fight #game #gladiator #i

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#instead #people #someone #suffering #therapy

I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit. ↗

— Vanessa Marcil

#anxiety #any #attack #bathing #bathing suit

Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#different #engagement #every #i #i think

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#beg #could #enough #him #i

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#body #books #bringing #country #enriching