A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music. Marya Mannes More Quotes by Marya Mannes More Quotes From Marya Mannes Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves. Marya Mannes caught likes vices The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life. Marya Mannes barbarians fusion weapons Infants are interesting only to their parents. Marya Mannes infant parent interesting The greatest miracle of all, the human being. Marya Mannes human-beings miracle humans on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies. Marya Mannes real dream moving The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know. Marya Mannes diversity voice new-york It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man. Marya Mannes marvellous women knows It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter. Marya Mannes damage children television The Republicans think they have a corner on morality. Marya Mannes political party thinking certain kinds of people become Republicans and certain kinds of people become Democrats, and ... it's more than a matter of party affiliation. It's a way of thinking and being. Marya Mannes party people thinking People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being. Marya Mannes space opportunity mean Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation. Marya Mannes reducing moments doe television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence. Marya Mannes radio experts television All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality. Marya Mannes compassion war sex The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit. Marya Mannes All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction. Marya Mannes But the silly male fool is often unaware of how much a look,a touch, a word can hold for a woman.Nor does he seem to have any idea at all of the degree to which their absence can make her cross,resentful ,tiresome." This is from her essay "The Power Men have over Women Marya Mannes The earth we abuse and the living things we kill, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. Marya Mannes The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. Marya Mannes I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society. Marya Mannes think society real power
