Pona Quotes & Sayings

I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away. — Joaquin Phoenix

Above all things, dragons are loyal. Perhaps that is what makes us to amenable to life with sticks. Our characters are larger than their shortfalls. — H. Leighton Dickson

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema. — Romola Garai

When you are angry, be still and do not speak. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Some people may find material chores irksome; they would prefer to use their time to talk and be with others. They haven't yet realized that the thousand and one small things that have to be done each day, the cycle of dirtying and cleaning, were given by God to enable us to communicate through matter. . . . We are all called to do, not extraordinary things, but very ordinary things, with an extraordinary love that flows from the heart of God.

. . . A community which has a sense of work done well, quietly and lovingly, humbly and without fuss, can become a community where the presence of God is profoundly lived. . . . So the community will take on a whole contemplative dimension. — Jean Vanier

Sometimes life seems like a match between oneself and one's gaolors. The gaolers, of course, are one's mistakes; and the question is, who'll hold out longest? When I think of that, life instead of being too long, seems as short as a winter day ... — Edith Wharton

Never make a promise you cannot keep. — Dan Brown

My thighs and hips are on fire. I don't know where I end and you begin. — Amanda Carlson

I'm wearing out this new Coal Men record. I think it's masterful start-to-finish. Dave Coleman is one of Americana music's great songwriters, and I hope this record gets the attention it deserves. — Todd Snider

Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down. — Ryan White

Lucky people create, notice, and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives. — Richard Wiseman