Pontigny Quotes & Sayings

Travelers should only read after dark. — Robert Harbison

The greatest thinker we can ever think of is Jesus Christ. He knew how to make His contenders ponder in awe — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Opera is musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to think about how I comport myself on stage: I employ 'rubati,' 'ostinati,' 'cadenze.' Finding these parallels is very fascinating for me. — Toni Servillo

This tottered ensign of my ancestors
Which swept the desert shore of that dead sea
Whereof we got the name of Mortimer,
Will I advance upon these castle-walls.
Drums, strike alarum, raise them from their sport,
And sing aloud the knell of Gaveston! — Christopher Marlowe

Could one have a time-release epiphany, an epiphany without realizing it had happened? Or were they always trumpeted by angels and preceded by temporary blindness, Patrick wondered, as he walked down the corridor in the wrong direction. — Edward St. Aubyn

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person. — Seth Godin

This was how life was meant to be. It was scary at times, but you had to trust in the ones you loved to see you through the madness of it. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I think money is pretty straightforward. Get some money in; pay off what you owe, the rest is yours. — Lemar

Gravity always wins — Michael Hirsch

Teach love, for that is what you are. — George Eliot

And it is, after all, as good a way as any of solving the problem of existence to get near enough to the things and people that have appeared to us beautiful and mysterious from a distance to be able to satisfy ourselves that they have neither mystery nor beauty. — Marcel Proust

Saying of the Prophet
Some behaviour
I am like a man who has lighted a fire, and all the creeping things have rushed to burn themselves in it. — Idries Shah

What wonders could be achieved, what progress could be made, if mankind were to permanently set aside its squabblings and join together? — Brandon Sanderson