Pilant Court Quotes & Sayings

Arabelle," Debs was saying. "Arabelle, please listen to me." Arabelle was not listening, and I didn't think my sister's vocal tone of combined anger and authority was well calculated to win over anyone - especially not someone who looked like she had been sent over from a casting office to play the part of a cleaning woman with no green card. — Jeff Lindsay

If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films. — Imogen Poots

A sheet spread beneath an apple-tree can receive only apples; a sheet spread beneath the stars can receive only star-dust. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together. — James Cash Penney

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing. — Lev Grossman

Runners are bouncing up and down at the curb waiting for lights to change. Cops are in coffee shops dealing with bagel deficiencies. — Thomas Pynchon

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment. — Leonardo Da Vinci

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions. — Sylvester Stallone

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life. — Will Smith

Fear is the anticipation of pain; it most often never becomes true. — Debasish Mridha

The more confidence I have in each one of my stock picks, the fewer companies I need to own in my portfolio to feel comfortable. — Joel Greenblatt

I have sometimes said to a client: "If you are so in touch with your feelings from your abusive childhood, then you should know what abuse feels like. You should be able to remember how miserable it was to be cut down to nothing, to be put in fear, to be told that the abuse is your own fault. You should be less likely to abuse a woman, not more so, from having been through it." Once I make this point, he generally stops mentioning his terrible childhood; he only wants to draw attention to it if it's an excuse to stay the same, not if it's a reason to change. — Lundy Bancroft

Conscious rebukes from doing wrong — Sunday Adelaja