Podisul Quotes & Sayings

If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there. — Jeremy Sisto

It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion. — Dalai Lama

Heresy is the eternal dawn, the morning star, the glittering herald of the day. Heresy is the last and best thought. It is the perpetual New World, the unknown sea, toward which the brave all sail. It is the eternal horizon of progress.
Heresy extends the hospitalities of the brain to a new thought.
Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy, a coffin. — Robert G. Ingersoll

God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things ... In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us. — Corrie Ten Boom

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are. — Casey Stengel

When agents of the Turkmen secret police came up short in arrests of counterrevolutionaries in 1937-38, they filled their quota by going to the Ashgabat marketplace and rounding up all men who wore beards, on theory that they were likely to be mullahs. — Douglas Northrop

Denmark can be very small, provincial, and mediocre. — Thomas Vinterberg

For better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word. — Vladimir Nabokov

Silletti and I, for instance, chewed out cotton wads for the same amount of time. I produced .78 milliliters of stimulated saliva; she produced 1.4. She tried to reassure me. "It doesn't say anything about how good you are or how good I am with saliva."
"Erika, I'm a dried up husk."
"Don't say that, Mary. — Mary Roach

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. — Paul Eldridge