Pierrepont School Quotes & Sayings

A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls. — Charlie Munger

I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time. — Alan J. Pakula

Women are like handfuls of sand. They all rub up under your scales now and then, but the finest ones do put a polish on a man. — R. Lee Smith

Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of vast importance, indirectly modifying the whole surface of the earth, breaking in upon any supposition of zoological continuity, and utterly unaccounted for by what we have any right to call the laws of nature. — Adam Sedgwick

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie. — Simone Weil

Aye lass," nodded Gizurr, "you are quite the beauty for sure. I'd certainly offer to buy you a beer or two if I ever met you in a pub and that's a fact."
Ragni tutted and elbowed Gizurr in the ribs, "Have some respect, she looks young enough to be your daughter."
"Well she isn't is she?" snorted Gizurr, "She's been trapped here for over two thousand years, made to think that she's an ugly old bird and fooled by some arse wipe into protecting a lump of rock that is perfectly capable of looking after itself."
Ragni pursed his lips and nodded slowly in agreement. — Jake Adler

If God has given you but a small portion of the world, yet if you are godly He has promised never to forsake you (Heb. 13:5). Providence has ordered that condition for you which is really best for your eternal good. If you had more of the world than you have, your heads and hearts might not be able to manage it to your advantage. — John Flavel

In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants. — Jane Leavy

And she gave him a melting smile, the glutinous sweetness of which he devoured with the avidity of a diabetic who swallows a fatal spoonful of jam. — John Collier

It's a tragic fact to die in an accident — Gabrielle Zevin

What is the song of ice and fire?" "It's no song I've ever heard. — George R R Martin

At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup. — Kristin Hannah

Emotion, and that negative moments are like scribbling with permanent marker — Jodi Picoult

argues that it's our feeling of being in control more than the actual degree of control that's important to us. This is good news, in a way; lots of things can help us feel in control. — Anonymous