Pomtinius Quotes & Sayings

I was pretty obnoxious as a kid. — Lorelei Linklater

Yet he had a certain charm of manner, and I fancied that, if one really knew him well, one could have a deep affection for him. — Agatha Christie

... he closed the venetian blinds and then the drapes, and he lay down on the outside of the coverlet. But sleep would not come. Tears came instead. They seeped. Billy turned on the Magic Fingers, and he was jiggled as he wept. — Kurt Vonnegut

Souls and purses, she thinks, these two are obsessed with souls and purses. — Jessie Burton

The only part of the evening I really enjoyed was when Lord Pomtinius told me a limerick about an adulterous abbot."
"Don't you dare repeat it!" her sister ordered. Georgiana had never shown the faintest wish to rebel against the rules of propriety. She loved and lived by them.
"There once was an adulterous abbot," Olivia teased, "as randy-"
Georgiana slapped her hands over her ears. "I can't believe he told you such a thing! Father would be furious if he knew."
"Lord Pomtinius was in his cups," Olivia said. "Besides, he's ninety-six and he doesn't care about decorum any longer. Just a laugh, now and then."
"It doesn't even make sense. An adulterous abbot? How can an abbot be adulterous? They don't even marry."
"Let me know if you want to hear the whole verse," Olivia said. "It ends with talk of nuns, so I believe the word was being used loosely. — Eloisa James

I was born in New York in 1904. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Nobody owns comedy. Nobody owns a premise. Nobody owns an idea. — Trevor Noah

The romantic vision promises 'shadowless' relationships, but it is precisely by wrestling with the relationship's shadow, with disillusionment, that deep intimacy is sustained. — Terrence Real

14294Inspiration means breathing in. Breathing in God. You actually become larger than yourself and first thoughts are present. — Natalie Goldberg

Play is the answer to the question, 'How does anything new come about?' — Jean Piaget

Woody Allen's movies are so much a part of me. I grew up watching them over and over and would read all his comic pieces for the New Yorker. In some ways, his influence is so much there that I can't even locate it any more. — Noah Baumbach

Syd always gets in there. — David Gilmour

Books. Cats. Life is Good. — Edward Gorey