Poons Larry Quotes & Sayings

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do. — Charles Handy

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

Being silent for me doesn't require being in a quiet place and it doesnt mean not saying words. It means, "receiving in a balanced, noncombative way what is happening." With or without words, the hope of my heart is that it will be able to relax and acknowledge the truth of my situation with compassion. — Sylvia Boorstein

For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights. — Rudolf Hilferding

A woman, if she hates her husband (and many of them do), can make life so sour and obnoxious to him that even death upon the gallows seems sweet by comparison. This hatred, of course, is often, and perhaps almost invariably, quite justified. To be the wife of an ordinary man, indeed, is an experience that must be very hard to bear. The hollowness and vanity of the fellow, his petty meanness and stupidity, his puling sentimentality and credulity, his bombastic air of a cock on a dunghill, his anaesthesia to all whispers and summonings of the spirit, above all, his loathsome clumsiness in amour - all these things must revolt any woman above the lowest. — H.L. Mencken

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

Because this is the beauty of strangers: we're all just doing our best to help each other out, motivated not by karma but by a natural instinct to help the greater whole. — Sloane Crosley

Nothing will ever replace good old fashioned police work, but Facebook and Twitter have been like a tool on our belt, In some ways it can help them in their investigations and in some ways it can hinder — William Bratton

A great painting is a great painting. — Larry Poons

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

Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the bodies of slain enemies alone; and horrible and fearful as the custom is, immeasurably as it is to be abhorred and condemned, still I assert that those who indulge in it are in other respects humane and virtuous. — Herman Melville

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

The so highly acclaimed "dominion of man over nature" turned out to be merely an enormous capability to kill. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

I am in love with Counting Crows. It is so manly and American. — Margaret Cho