Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.
Marya MannesMoney is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
Marya MannesThe 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 MannesYou cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
Marya Mannes