Ponur Quotes & Sayings

I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both. — Spike Lee

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning. — Richard Neal

Where is the Palestinian Gandhi? — Julia Bacha

Straight ahead you can't go very far. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past ... — Tom Waits

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness. — Edmund Husserl

Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet. — Taylor Swift

And.. are you willing to go all the way? To understand that food is only a stand-in for love and possibility and spirit? Because if you aren't, you will get caught up in gaining and losing weight for the rest of your life. But if you are willing, then the portal to what you say you want is truly on your plate. — Geneen Roth

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy. — Mark Twain

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things. — Lionel Hampton

I love the American musical for the simplicity of emotion that gets expressed. — Neil Patrick Harris

A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities. — Jack Ma

Doctors came to see her singly and in consultation, talked much in French, German, and Latin, blamed one another, and prescribed a great variety of medicines for all the diseases known to them, but the simple idea never occurred to any of them that they could not know the disease that Natasha was suffering from, as no disease suffered by a by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his own peculiar, personal, novel, complicated disease, unknown to medicine - not a disease of the lungs, liver, skin, heart, nerves, and so on mentioned in medical books, but a disease consisting of one of the innumerable combinations of the maladies of those organs. — Leo Tolstoy

Why do we protect children from life? It's no wonder that we become afraid to live. We're not told what life really is. We're not told that life is joy and wonder and magic and even rapture, if you can get involved enough. We're not told that life is also pain, misery, despair, unhappiness, and tears. I don't know about you, but I don't want to miss any of it. I want to embrace life, and I want to find out what it's all about. I wouldn't want to go through life without knowing what it is to cry. — Leo Buscaglia