Pg Portal Quotes & Sayings

So don't tell me that I can't fit in. My heart beats like a talking drum. — Nikki Grimes

I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing. — Marian Wright Edelman

The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conversation fertilizes our understanding and that is why customers are demanding that businesses converse with them rather than talk down to them. — J. N. HALM

I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty. — Richelle E. Goodrich

We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion. — Barack Obama

Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us. — Anne Lamott

The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them. — James Joyce

Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies. — Betty Smith

There is no state of being called "trying". — John Yokoyama

It just sort of suggested a very specific kind of impudence like this little-man syndrome. Chucky has this Napoleon complex. He's a little guy with a lot of rage and that really pointed us in the direction of exploiting that aspect of his character, which people always seem to enjoy. — David Kirschner

As much as I admire and value intellectualism and experimentation, I've discovered that unless a book has a throbbing heart as well as a sexy brain, I feel like the story is a specimen in a sealed glass jar and not a living, breathing creature I want to take by the hand and talk to for hours on end. — Myla Goldberg

People don't seem to be able to pigeonhole me yet, which is great. — Anthony Head

A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message. — Jack Welch