Ponen In English Quotes & Sayings

I'm the barbarian of Hollywood. — John Milius

Never tie your happiness to the tail of someone else's kite. — Beth Hoffman

I'm tied up, gagged and about to be bludgeoned to death by a lawn ornament. Jeez, that's depressing.
- Raven Smith — Rita Stradling

By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage. — Charles Caleb Colton

When I write a play, and we read it for the first time, the great fear is that everybody is going to say, 'You're a bum and you can't write. This stinks.' and throw the script in the garbage. The great hope is that they're all going to lift me up on their shoulders and carry me to the streets, singing, 'He's a genius, he's a genius!' — Tracy Letts

Actors can make five movies a year. A director can make one movie, every two years. It's a whole different level of commitment and of sweat equity, and therefore there's a direct correlation to passion. — Joseph McGinty Nichol

Mass shootings are all part of a vast Left-wing conspiracy to undermine the 2nd Amendment and deprive your 6-year-old of his God-given right to bring a Bushmaster to class for "show and tell" ... The one he got from his psychotic, meth-addicted uncle's trailer while the latter was out getting the Confederate flag tattooed on his face. Remember, guns don't kill: the dimwits who insist EVERYONE should have the right to own 'em do. — Quentin R. Bufogle

Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country. — Bainbridge Colby

I have an idea that most of all he is running away from love, because it's too big and too demanding. He's running away from us
from you, from me, from his sister, from himself, too. Who wants to be himself, who wants to be so little, and so captured and limited? — William, Saroyan

Surrender is learning to get out of the way of what wants to happen naturally. — Penney Peirce

The imagination needs moodling,
long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering. — Brenda Ueland

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself. — Alain De Botton

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn