Poconos Quotes & Sayings

It was October in Pennsylvania and on the first morning the ground was frosted. As I walked to breakfast, some guy yelled out, 'Thirteen inches in the Poconos.'
'Is that I porn film?' I asked. — George Hodgman

Violence is not only impractical but immoral. — Martin Luther King Jr.

O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements. — Thomas Chalmers

There are a number of rules that should be observed when one meets royalty, ranging from what one can say and when, to where one should stand, when one can sit, even where one should look. Sindy bobbed a nervous curtsy and, before being introduced, blurted out an invitation to come inside whilst looking John directly in the eye. — F.D. Lee

The first theatre I ever found was in the backyard of a new suburban community in the foothills of the Poconos. My dad was a young FBI agent at his first or second posting - we're all from New York. He was posted in Scranton, Pennsylvania and he put the family in a brand new red-brick apartment. It was in a C-shape and behind it was a small hill that led up to the woods. There was a white-washed brick wall that was a perfect theatre! There were windows and all the ladies behind the windows in their apartments. I would go out there after lunch every day and sing opera. — Constantin Stanislavski

What I admire about the modern atheist is not at all his logic, but rather his gift of imagination. There will always be the cartoon versions of Christianity further perpetuated by the extremist atheists who do not possess the humility to ask real scholars and theologians its difficult questions. There is little doubt that the atheist has the bigger imagination: the first reason is due to his persistent caricatures of what constitutes a Christian; the second because of his belief that most of his questions are actually rhetorical. From this I can infer that, instead of laughing at one another (the Christian at modern atheist immaturity and the modern atheist at Christian stupidity), we would have a better chance at productivity laughing with one another as we all dumb down what we don't understand. — Criss Jami

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it. — Rene Balcer

I always start out saying exactly what everybody looks like. I don't know why. — Susanna Clarke

The Truly Healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating. — William H. Stewart

When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable. — Teller

If what we said cannot go beyond the century we live in, it means that we have said nothing. Let us say something for all the centuries! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in. — Alanis Morissette

I was an altar boy, a spokesperson for the Virgin Mary, I was a choir boy but then at the age of 14 I discovered masturbation and all that went out the window. — Guillermo Del Toro

Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day. — Joel Spolsky

If he exalt himself, I humble him if he humble himself, I exalt him: and I always contradict him, till he understands that he is an incomprehensible monster. — Blaise Pascal

There is light beyond the veil. — Corban Addison

It's just that old people always think young people haven't really learned about love; and young people think that old people have forgotten about love; and, you know, they're both wrong. — Isaac Asimov