Ponsonby Doodles Quotes & Sayings

THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior. — Nancy Gibbs

What your precious life wants to be or do - it is only up to you. — Debasish Mridha

When you're writing for the screen, you have to be hyper-conscious every moment of how the audience is going to react. If you write just one scene where the audience is confused or it breaks their concentration in some way, then you've lost them, and you might never get them back. — Salman Rushdie

Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have. — Bo Bennett

Before the Second World War, more than nine million Jews were living in Europe, most of them in lands that were or had been part of the Russian Empire. — Masha Gessen

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man. — James Harrington

In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names. — Kim Jong Il

Even if I'm doing a show and there's five people in the audience and the sound system is terrible - I mean, it's been a while but I've certainly done those kind of shows where it's just every conceivable thing is against you - you still have music. It's still something that's real whether there's five people in the audience or a hundred thousand people in the audience. And that's always been there for me. — Joan Osborne

Asking's the easy bit. Then there's everything that comes after. — Cath Crowley

And you and Dex?"
"What about us?" ...
"What's the deal with you?"
"There is no deal. We're just partners."
"Are you sure? Because we all have bets on whether you guys are banging each other or not. — Karina Halle

Our scars make us know that our past was for real — Jane Austen

You're going to be something, you and that language you speak on paper. — Patricia Reilly Giff

Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike. — Luanne Rice

All we can do is to make the best of our friends: love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way of what is bad: but no more think of rejecting them for it than of throwing away a piece of music for a flat passage or two — Jon Meacham