Pollett Quotes & Sayings

The best way to feel like you really belong to a group is to invent another group to hate. Which — Nathan Hill

Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the shadowed lives of those outside the law may sometimes be found concealed honesty and naive ideals. — William McIlvanney

Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody. — Hedy Lamarr

The first discipline is the realization that there is a discipline - -that all art begins and ends with discipline, that any art is first and foremost a craft. We have gone far enough on the road to self-indulgence now to know that. The man who announces to the world that he is going to "do his thing" is like the amateur on the high-diving platform who flings himself into the void shouting at the judges that he is going to do whatever comes naturally. He will land on his ass. Naturally. You'd think, to listen to the loudspeakers that surround us, that no man had ever tried to "do his thing" before. Every poet worth reading has, but those really worth reading have understood that to do your thing you have to learn first what your thing is and second how to go about doing it. — Archibald MacLeish

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief. — Reza Aslan

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else. — Tim Cook

Her father had been forced to cancel her clarinet lessons after the neighbors complained about the practicing. — Jeanne Birdsall

The bottom line is, the more we have a cadre of women moving up the scale, and it doesn't seem threatening, and people realize that women actually work much harder than men, and realize that they need more women in these jobs, I think that goes away. — Madeleine Albright

The new 'Avatar' BluRay is a lesson in filmmaking. It really is inspiring. — Louis Leterrier

Online fundraising is so important to the Democratic Party. — John Byrne

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. — Karl A. Menninger

It took me a long time to discover your weakness, Albus Potter. I thought it was pride, I thought it was the need to impress your father, but then I realised your weakness was the same as your father's - friendship. — J.K. Rowling