Porteous Quotes & Sayings

After using a paint chart from a local DIY superstore to identify the skin tone of his penis as midnight chocolate, Miriam stayed down on one knee and offered him the citizenship he had always wanted and the middle-aged white woman he would grudgingly accept. — David F. Porteous

He had seen better days - though these had only served to embitter him against his current circumstances. — David F. Porteous

Ask a physics teacher: Why do elementary particles exist? Is it impossible for them not to exist? (Be prepared for the possibility that your physics teacher doesn't want to have this conversation.) — William Lane Craig

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever. — Amy Tan

This is a picture of him from 1919, just after the war, looking like he slept in that uniform all the way from France. He still had that face, but he wasn't the same. I know there's men who came back changed: the Paterson boy up in Brownville hung himself that summer. Nobody talked about it much, and I suppose that was for the best. But Jack wasn't like that; it hadn't been a terrible thing for him, I don't think. Or if it had been, then it was one of those terrible things you get through and it sets you free. — David F. Porteous

If I never learned from my mistakes, I would never learn at all — Shane Porteous

When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong. — Dennis Bergkamp

You may like me, you may hate me. But I guarantee you'll remember me. — Shane Porteous

I am not arrogant to claim that I can achieve the impossible, but I am not ignorant enough not to try to — Shane Porteous

That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person — Jodi Picoult

Fantasy is easy, all you have to do is this. Here's an interesting culture, here's another interesting culture. What would happen if you put these two cultures in the same world? From there all you have to answer for the reader is, why are these two cultures fighting? And more importantly, why should the reader care? If you can do that you will have a great story on your hands. — Shane Porteous

The Church is going to have to recognise that secularisation is not the cause of their decline, it is the result of it. — Keith Porteous Wood

I think I think, therefore I think I probably am. — David F. Porteous

When I'm reaching an audience, I feel it. — Hubert Sumlin

He wanted to say a coincidence, but he couldn't make himself believe that. Over the past few years he's seen a lot of things: destiny, prophecy, magic, monsters, fate. But he'd never yet run across a coincidence. — Rick Riordan

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
"That's not my religion," Murray said. "My religion just says duck. — David F. Porteous

he constantly came up with more and more ways to publicly execute his detractors in the most gruesome of ways. There was a purpose to such barbarity; Granzool wanted to ensure that his people feared him more than they could ever fear the western monsters. — Shane Porteous

It struck me that perhaps a lot of the people you see walking about are dead. We say that a man's dead when his heart stops and not before. It seems a bit arbitrary. After all, parts of your body don't stop working -hair goes on growing for years, for instance. Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea. Old Porteous is like that. Wonderfully learned, wonderfully good taste - but he's not capable of change. Just says the same things and thinks the same thoughts over and over again. There are a lot of people like that. Dead minds, stopped inside. Just keep moving backwards and forwards on the same little track, getting fainter all the time, like ghosts. — George Orwell

Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost. — Seamus Heaney

The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting. — Elisabeth Rohm

It's like I don't have any one genre, I guess. I think you'd be hard-pressed to get me into a rom-com, but who knows? — Joe Carnahan

PORTEOUS: Do you mean to say you were going to steal my car.
TEDDIE: Not exactly. I was only going to bolshevise it, so to speak. — W. Somerset Maugham

He was like an infection that spread through my body, replicating in my mind and heart. Every — S.D. Hendrickson