Pontificatedefinition Quotes & Sayings

I've never seen a world
So festering with damnation. I have left
Rings of beer on every alehouse table
From the salt sea-coast across half a dozen counties,
But each time I thought I was on the way
To a faintly festive hiccup
The sight of the damned world sobered me up again. — Christopher Fry

That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel at 8 and at 5; there are cats in the alleys and bottles and bums, and I look up at the window and think, I no longer know where you are, and I walk on and wonder where the living goes when it stops. — Charles Bukowski

The fact that I could sing in a way that might not be right for RADA but is right for me was a brand-new concept. — Lia Ices

Promises may fit the friends, but non performance will turn them into enemies. — Benjamin Franklin

You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college. — Charlie Trotter

Rest nurtures creativity, which nurtures activity. Activity nurtures rest, which sustains creativity. Each draws from and contributes to the other. — Kim John Payne

It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape. — Diane Arbus

All I hope for is one moment of rational thought and a shot at action before I'm lost to a great saddening madness, pithed at the hands of my own stumbling biology.

[Johnny Truant] — Mark Z. Danielewski

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose. — Arthur Schopenhauer

My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser. — Fernando Torres

I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth. — Theodore Roosevelt

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter. — Steve Martin

The Sherry Theater, which I named after my mom, is a place I can go. I do want to give back to the community. There are so many people out there who want to be seen and heard, and get connected. — Scott Haze

I guess I'm just feeling Septemberish. — George Selden

The universe was good because he was in it. — E. Lockhart