Pierpont Quotes & Sayings

It is surely gratuitous to point out that the author suffered from an edifice complex (writing of Ayn Rand) — Claudia Roth Pierpont

The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind. — James Pierpont

She hadn't learned to look for the difference yet between what one did and who one was. Hadn't even known there was a difference. — Julia Pierpont

We thought we were living in between-time, after this and before that, but it's the between-time that lasted. — Julia Pierpont

Well, I've got tomorrow morning off, so I thought I might spend that thinking about her. Basically, my plan is to maybe just romantically obsess over her but not really do anything about it. — Christopher Shevlin

Roth Unbound is filled with intelligent readings and smart judgments. Because of the author's sympathy and sharp mind, it offers real insight into the creative process itself, and into Philip Roth's high calling as a great American artist. The book is, in some ways, a radical rereading of Roth's life and his work. It is impossible, by the end, not to feel a tender admiration for Roth as a novelist and indeed for Claudia Roth Pierpont as an empathetic and brilliant critic. — Colm Toibin

Nature always levies her tribute. — Gene Stratton-Porter

Have you notices that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success? — Arianna Huffington

You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland. — Cristina Garcia

James Pierpont, one of the founders of Yale University. — Susie J. Pak

I'd like to see twenty-one links completed when I return. Threats on your well-being are poor excuses for missing homework!

He drew a happy face after that - two dots and a curving line - and signed his name. — Charlie N. Holmberg

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity. — William Loughton Smith

Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells. Jingle all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one horse open sleigh. Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one horse open sleigh. — James Pierpont

The best use of family was having it in front of other people. — Julia Pierpont

The reason the Jews hate Nazis is primarily because they didn't come up with the idea first. — Tom Metzger

If of these United States I was the President,No man that owed another should ever pay a cent;And he who dunn'd another should be banished far away,And attention to the pretty girls is all a man should pay. — James Pierpont

The end is never a surprise. People say Don't tell me, Don't spoil it, then later say, If only I'd known. — Julia Pierpont

J. Pierpont Morgan observed, in one of his analytical interludes, that a person usually has two reasons for doing a thing: one that sounds good and a real one. The person himself will think of the real reason. You don't need to emphasize that. But all of us, being idealists at heart, like to think of motives that sound good. So, in order to change people, appeal to the nobler motives. — Dale Carnegie