Porges Quotes & Sayings

A novelist must believe he can outdo himself. Or his creative drive would die. — Johan Fundin

If you want to improve the world, start by making people feel safer. — Stephen Porges

It is because the young cannot recognize the youth of the aged, and the old will not acknowledge the experience of the young, that they repel each other. — George MacDonald

It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something. — George Bernard Shaw

I would hope your beliefs would be your beliefs. — Richelle Mead

To the woman in the restaurant today, the doll in her arms was the real child who still lived in her memories. — Shogo Oketani

"Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why, there is a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up." — Arthur Porges

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it. — Charles Caleb Colton

With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat. — Jorma Kaukonen