Ponerle Informal Command Quotes & Sayings

When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace. When Montmorency meets a cat, the whole street knows about it; and there is enough bad language wasted in ten seconds to last an ordinarily respectable man all his life, with care. — Jerome K. Jerome

There's this great kind of spooky dance that happens that I can't access any other way. I think most of us are given kind of one pathway to that dance, and that's why I'm a writer. It's the only way I can get there. I can't do it through art, I can't do it through singing, I can't do it through mothering, I can't do it through invention. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions. — Christian De Duve

I try to take everyone's head off, to tell the truth. — A. J. Hawk

There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come forth. When the brain and the belly burn from fasting, every moment a new song rises out of the fire. The mists clear, and a new vitality makes you spring up the steps before you ... — Rumi

Nature is full for us of seeming inconsistencies and glad surprises. — Margaret E. Barber

Why do I love the thought of you old? That first twinge of arthiritis in your knee is a thing I imagine with all the tenderness I felt when you showed me your loose tooth. I wish I could help you carry the weight of many years. But the Lord will have that fatherly satisfaction. — Marilynne Robinson

Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web of insinuations ... Prose should be a long intimacy between strangers with no direct appeal to what both may have known. It should slowly appeal to feelings unexpressed, it should in the end draw tears out of the stone ... — Henry Green

We all die eventually. But the one thing we can do is seek answers along the way. — Alex Scarrow

As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream." — W.S. Gilbert

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. — David R. Brower

If you find that you have no love but desire to have it, do the works of love and the Lord will see your desire and effort and put love in your heart. — Ambrose Of Optina

Every girl needs a shoe that goes with nothing and therefore goes with everything. — Becki Newton

The thing that matters most is what matters to you, not anybody else. — Fennel Hudson