Podchorazych Quotes & Sayings

Literary history and the present are dark with silences ... I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences
what Keats called agonie ennuyeuse (the tedious agony)
that necessary time for renewal, lying fallow, gestation, in the natural cycle of creation. The silences I speak of here are unnatural: the unnatural thwarting of what struggles to come into being, but cannot. — Tillie Olsen

Everybody always wanted to do something, and here come the guys who always wanted to joyride in a city bus. — Ben H. Winters

When it becomes serious, you have to lie. — Jean-Claude Juncker

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously. — Jack Welch

I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?' — Malin Akerman

Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet — Tatsumi Hijikata

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past. — Kobe Bryant

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great deal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice. — Jose P. Rizal

All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me. — Steven Spielberg

One of the subtle distinctions between the different types of knowledge is what we might call knowing-that (for example, knowing that 7 + 3 = 10) and knowing-how (for example, knowing how to add 7 units to 3 units and end up with 10 units). — Lionel Fanthorpe