Pontritters Quotes & Sayings

Then Hannah said, 'Look, either you're going to talk or I'm going to have to finish the story about the guy who chopped off his penis. Your call. — Brigid Kemmerer

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions. — Arthur Koestler

Unless one is planning to go shopping - basically begging to be smothered by the ravening throngs of returners and bargain hunters; an embrace as constricting as that hugging machine designed by autistic author Temple Grandin - then Boxing Day feels like a bar after last call when the lights have been turned up. — David Rakoff

He listens equally to the prayers of the believer and the unbeliever. — Henry David Thoreau

It may be a cliche, but cliche or not, I fear the day when the only marsh harriers or peregrines I can look at are in paintings by Joseph Wolf or Bruno Liljefors - and no matter how beautiful those works may be, life is the great thing: life, life, life. — John Burnside

He was thinking of Marco, Daisy, Sono
Oguki, Madeleine, the Pontritters, and now and then of the difference between ancient and modern
tragedy according to Hegel, the inner experience of the heart and the deepening of individual
character in the modern age. His own individual character cut off at times both from facts and from
values. But modern character is inconstant, divided, vacillating, lacking the stone-like certitude of
archaic man, also deprived of the firm ideas of the seventeenth century, clear, hard theorems. — Saul Bellow

Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true. — William Shakespeare

If you really want something bad enough, if you're really interested in something enough, you know, you just keep working on it. — Brian Kobilka

Nothing could be more impolite. To say, "Is your sheep genuine?" would be a worse breach of manners. — Philip K. Dick