Pontrellis Huntington Quotes & Sayings

...as if prayers ever put out a fire. — Ann Aguirre

In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse. — Joanna Scott

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. — Ansel Adams

I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else," said Jo, — Louisa May Alcott

Yeah, it was horrible! I mean really horrible. I felt incredibly awkward. It was not something I was [looking forward to]. I don't know, but it looked good. We somehow managed to make it look realistic. I was proud of myself that I managed to power through and be professional. — Emma Watson

I cannot do my job unless I am fully open to whatever comes. You're almost naked emotionally. — Renee Lawless

In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper. — A. N. Wilson

To live is to hold your child, your own flesh, your very blood, in your arms. To see her smile and wrap five tiny fingers around just one of yours. To live is to hold your wife close to you as you lie in bed and listen to her breathe -- to fall asleep, one against the other, fitted as if you were made for each other, and then awaked in the dawn when she turns to you and whispers your name. To live is to walk your land, knowing every tree and footpath and foxhole, and come home to the smell of a pot of stew, boiling over the fire. Home, wife, children. That is what it is to live. — N. Gemini Sasson

I work out with my trainer or do an hour of pilates at 6 or 7AM. I'm done by the time my household is awake. — David Beckham

It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that in one word which either the barbarity or the narrowness of modern tongues cannot supply in more ... But since every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another, it would be unreasonable to limit a translator to the narrow compass of his author's words; it is enough if he choose out some expression which does not vitiate the sense. — John Dryden

One of the things that we have to change in this country is the idea that people can't disagree without challenging each other's character and patriotism. I have never suggested that Sen. McCain picks his positions on national security based on politics or personal ambition. I have not suggested it because I believe that he genuinely wants to serve America's national interest. Now, it's time for him to acknowledge that I want to do the same. Let me be clear: I will let no one question my love of this country. — Barack Obama

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing. — James Taylor

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world. — Gina Prince-Bythewood