Podger Quotes & Sayings

Every secret of a writers soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works - Virginia Woolf — Tracie Podger

looking at: For example: Improve any of those variables, and you increase your earnings. — Pablo Vici

The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game. — Gary Ackerman

When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman — Audrey Hepburn

Academe was one of the last strongholds of the professional time-waster. — Clive Barker

We talk about how he and Leanne are doing knowing full well there is no sufficient answer.
p 294 — Michael Perry

Imagine taking a test knowing the answer. While we know that history flows forward, it is difficult to realize that we envision it backward. Why is it so? We will discuss the point in Chapter 11 but here is a possible explanation: Our minds are not quite designed to understand how the world works, but, rather, to get out of trouble rapidly and have progeny. If they were made for us to understand things, then we would have a machine in it that would run the past history as in a VCR, with a correct chronology, and it would slow us down so much that we would have trouble operating. Psychologists call this overestimation of what one knew at the time of the event due to subsequent information the hindsight bias, the "I knew it all along" effect. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Aunt Maria would mildly observe that, next time Uncle Podger was going to hammer a nail into the wall, she hoped he'd let her know in time, so that she could make arrangements to go and spend a week with her mother while it was being done. — Jerome K. Jerome