Poinsonous Quotes & Sayings

It seems reckless, even perverse, to spend so much time and effort nurturing such a deadly thing ... Ernie and Pooka seek to understand death and to master their fear of it by domesticating it in the form of the brugmansia. — Dean Koontz

That's the place where the books are made, I thought. That's also where Allen Ginsberg offered a friend of mine a Fig Newton outside a deli in the East Village. By the time I first came to New York, I was already half in love. — Garth Risk Hallberg

The only person you need to be credible to is yourself. When you stand in front of the mirror and nobody is watching, are you happy with yourself? — Afrojack

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed.
The riddle does not exist.
If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it. — Ernest Hemingway,

If you focus your eyes towards the horizon, everything and everyone walking in front of you becomes a blurry mass. That's what everyone else became. All of their dark wool suits began to mesh into one, and they began to rhythmically march in unison, all while I gazed at the sliver of sky that seemed to be pressed tightly in between the skyscrapers. I kept on walking and staring at the sky, and I began to notice the skyscrapers becoming larger and larger, and before I knew it, I had to turn to get to my building, and of course, the automat. — Cristina Martin

And then we were gone, cascading back to the future. — Lisa Tawn Bergren

We must realize that violence is not confined to physical violence. Fear is violence, caste discrimination is violence, exploitation of others, however subtle, is violence, segregation is violence, thinking ill of others and condemning others are violence. In order to reduce individual acts of physical violence, we must work to eliminate violence at all levels, mental, verbal, personal, and social, including violence to animals, plants, and all other forms of life. — Satish Kumar

Apparently, moving back home was just like joining Facebook, when middle-aged boyfriends came crawling out of the woodwork like cockroaches, suggesting drinks, putting out their nasty feelers for potential affairs. — Liane Moriarty

It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your life. — Allison Janney

Chafed the hands that held his arm. There, there, there! See — Charles Dickens

Men in power are always interested in greater power. — Dan Brown

You are what you are when the devil whistles. — Rick Acker