Pertennius Quotes & Sayings

I'd be surprised if Ronald Reagan doesn't run again. To us it's a second term. To him it's a double feature. — Robert Orben

Now that the midterm elections are over, President Obama has invited congressional leaders from both parties to a meeting at the White House tomorrow. When asked if he's nervous, Obama said, 'Oh, I'm not going to be there. I just invited them over. They can figure it out themselves.' — Jimmy Fallon

Let our scars fall into love with each other... — Jose N. Harris

We wait always for something that does not come. — Ernest Hemingway,

Thunderstorms were common in Sarantium on midsummer nights, sufficiently so to make plausible the oft-repeated tale that the Emperor Apius passed to the god in the midst of a towering storm, with lightning flashing and rolls of thunder besieging the Holy City. Even Pertennius of Eubulus, writing only twenty years after, told the story this way, adding a statue of the Emperor toppling before the bronze gates to the Imperial Precinct and an oak tree split asunder just outside the landward walls. Writers of history often seek the dramatic over the truth. It is a failing of the profession. — Guy Gavriel Kay

I'm a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family. — Tom Ford

Those giants of old, the ancient Rishis, who never walked but strode, of whom if you were to think but for a moment you would shrivel up into a moth, they sir, had time-and you have no time! — Swami Vivekananda

I've always hated superheroes. I cannot stand them. I love Norse mythology, but I hate superheroes. They ruined movies, then comics, and now games. — Tim Schafer

The sadness will ebb
the trouble is the time it might take — David Levithan

The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them ... — Agatha Christie

If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it. — Dino De Laurentiis

In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man at the top. — Agatha Christie

Trust is even more important than love. — Jeffrey Gitomer

If you want to talk to me after the show, I'd be surprised. — Mitch Hedberg