Poons Quotes & Sayings

If you educate a girl, you educate a nation. — Helene D. Gayle

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color. — Larry Poons

But since the new Archchancellor never paid much attention to anything anyone said while he was eating, and Poons never noticed that he wasn't getting any answers, they got along quite well. — Terry Pratchett

If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business. — Larry Poons

If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off. — Larry Poons

And right when your song ended I knew - just like your mother - I was a goner," Peeta says. "Then for the next eleven years, I tried to work up the nerve to talk to you. — Suzanne Collins

There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it. — Larry Poons

You'd be as rich as kings if you could find it, and you know it's here, and you stand there skulking. There wasn't one of you dared face Bill, and I did it
a blind man! And I'm to lose my chance for you! I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach! If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit you would catch them still. — Robert Louis Stevenson

He is a "princeling," the relatives of current or former senior Chinese Communist Party leaders. — Anonymous

A great painting is a great painting. — Larry Poons

Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth. — Thomas Brooks

The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now. — Larry Poons

Again Al touched me, but this time, his hand was gentle on my shoulder. "And if you're not, it's Ku'Sox. He knows you're too protected here, and you're a threat to him. He's summoning you. He's summoning you to where I can't follow. He's going to try to kill you! — Kim Harrison

And it suddenly dawned on the late Windle Poons that there was no such thing as somebody else's problem, and that just when you thought the world had pushed you aside it turned out to be full of strangeness. — Terry Pratchett

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer. — Azar Nafisi

A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order. — Napoleon Hill

The Dean leaned toward an ear.
"I was saying," he said loudly, "that we didn't know the meaning of the word 'sex' when we were young."
"That's true. That's very true," said Poons. He stared reflectively at the flames. "Did we ever, mm, find out, do you remember? — Terry Pratchett

When you were awake, stretched out in your bed in the dark, shutters drawn, your thoughts would flow freely. They would grow obscure when you got up and opened the curtains. The violence of daylight would efface the nocturnal clarity. In the daytime, people were barriers, dividing you up, preventing you from hearing what you listened to at night: the voice of your brain. — Edouard Leve