Popkin Popkin Quotes & Sayings

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices. — Mary Stuart Masterson

The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and exits
all are as formally arranged as an Elizabethan stage. Only the drama is shapeless, at least to those of us who have never seen a trial before. We see only random movements, sequences, comings and goings, no form or agenda apparent. To us the action is less like watching a play than watching an aquarium. — Shana Alexander

What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to leave alone the major problems of war and peace, race and poverty, man's inhumanity to man and the persistence of stupidity. — Zelda Popkin

If you are my friend,you are down for me at all times,not just when it's convenient. — Jasmine V

The reason I stopped doing the band is that I wanted to do something different ... Yes had become like 'Groundhog Day' for me. I loved being in the band, but it was album-tour, album-tour, different album-different tour. — Trevor Rabin

Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know? — Paul Walker

How long have you been 'Big D' then?" said Harry.
"Shut it," snarled Dudley, turning away again.
"Cool name," said Harry, grinning and falling into step beside his cousin. "But you'll always be Ickle Diddykins to me."
"I said, SHUT IT!" said Dudley, whose ham-like hands had curled into fists.
"Don't the boys know that's what your mum calls you?"
"Shut your face."
"You don't tell her to shut her face. What about 'popkin' and 'Dinky Diddydums,' can I use them then? — J.K. Rowling

What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe. — Edith Wharton

Of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to live by twos, with someone close with whom to share good and bad, to hear breathing in the dark room at night. Being alone is the one unnatural act. — Zelda Popkin

Philosophy is the architectonic art and the philosopher the archetypal person — Richard H. Popkin

Love interrupts the past and opens the future to new probabilities. — Marianne Williamson

You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction work. A journalist amasses facts, anecdotes and interviews with top brass. Enough of these add up to a book. A novelist demands quite different things. He has to find himself in his materials, to know for sure how he would feel and act and the events he writes about. In addition, he requires a catalyst - a person, idea, or emotion which coalesces his ingredients and makes them jell into a solid purpose. — Zelda Popkin

No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need. — Zelda Popkin

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman? — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

The gunslinger had no idea what tooter-fish was, but he knew a popkin when he saw it. — Stephen King

In the whole world, there was no better place than being wrapped in him. — Ilona Andrews

Touch of Ability with Action can never be lost in the journey of life. — Kishore Bansal

A country inn is a percolator. News seeps, simmers, and bubbles. — Zelda Popkin

Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time. — Zelda Popkin

Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread. — Zelda Popkin

The newer education put stress on culture ... Saturday mornings, the young were brushed and washed, forced into blue cheviot suits, and dragged to children's concerts to learn appreciation. They wriggled, squirmed, counted the light bulbs in the ceiling, dived under seats to gather ticket stubs, stampeded out at intermissions. The weakness of their bladders was astounding. — Zelda Popkin

There's no privacy for the violently dead. — Zelda Popkin

Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours. — Zelda Popkin

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It's not a job, it's a passion. When you become good at it, it's a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever. — Gordon Ramsay

Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums. — Martin Filler

Jeremy Popkin's collection of first-person narratives of the Haitian Revolution is an extremely valuable work, accessible, sound and intelligent. I only wish such a book had been available fifteen years ago when I was in the early stages of researching my series of novels. Popkin has been deft and tactful in stitching together these excerpts, and as a result, he manages to tell a complete version of the Revolution almost entirely in the words of the people who experienced it-this book engaged me deeply. — Madison Smartt Bell

Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit. — Zelda Popkin

New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own business. Police cars, ambulances, fire engines - nobody even turns around for them. We go to the movies for excitement. — Zelda Popkin

The same good folk who would burn me for a psychal now paid me to use my cursed gramarye to guard their sheep. — Hazel Butler

Each husband gets the infidelity he deserves. — Zelda Popkin

'White Material' is about courage and craziness. — Claire Denis

Pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future. — Zelda Popkin