Pochinilla Quotes & Sayings

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity. — Bertolt Brecht

Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time. — Mario Puzo

My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of suspension as in a hanging nest that is almost entirely encapsulated. — Maxine Kumin

Hail, Son of the Most High, heir of both Worlds, Queller of Satan! On thy glorious work Now enter, and begin to save Mankind. Thus they the Son of God, our Saviour meek, Sung victor, and, from heavenly feast refreshed, Brought on his way with joy. He, unobserved, Home to his mother's house private returned. — John Milton

Disappointment leads to clarity, which leads to conviction and true originality. — Conan O'Brien

Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults. — Amy Bloom

Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no. — Derek Jacobi

Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases. — Wolf Kahn

The secret of life is getting today right. Everyone can get today right, and if you can do it once you can do it repeatedly. — Stuart McRobert

They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes. Margot stood alone. She was a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair. She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away, and if she spoke at all her voice would be a ghost. Now she stood, separate, staring at the rain and the loud wet world beyond the huge glass. — Ray Bradbury

Electronic music has definitely taken over America. There is more and more interaction with hip hop. — Thomas Bangalter

Go therefore, and do that which is within you to do. Take no heed of gestures that beckon you aside. Ask of no man permission to perform. — Winifred Holtby

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle. — Russell Kirk