Porteuses Quotes & Sayings

Most of us think our lives are too full already. But when, in faith, you start to pray for more ministry, amazing things occur. As your opportunities expand, your ability and resources supernaturally increase, too. Right away you'll sense the pleasure God feels in your request and His urgency to accomplish great things through you. — Bruce H. Wilkinson

I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white. — Miles Davis

grande latte, double espresso, Italian blend, light on the froth, heavy on the cinnamon, with a shot of raspberry? — Kim Harrison

I went to Syracuse University. — Jessie Mueller

There is nothing so depressing as good advice, and I will be pleased if you do not inflict it upon me. Frankly, I am shocked at you. You must know this, surely? Some years ago I suffered such an offensively gratuitous piece of good advice that I was depressed for six months afterward. It was a very close call - I almost never recovered. — Gregory David Roberts

I won't get into the antics of what went on then. — Tony Windsor

One might have complained about the soot and ashes or about the pipes and curtain rods that hung crazily from the ceiling, but patients never lived in a hospital ward so nearly free of bacteria as this one that was sterilized by fire. — Michihiko Hachiya

If I had a baseball bat and bulldozer, maybe I could stop him. But without real weapons, without a pistol, a man-eating lion, and a vial of bubonic plague, I had zero change of competing against him. — Sherman Alexie

Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic]. — Gregory Bateson

My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London. — Ken Livingstone

I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through my friends and fell in love with it. — Hoodie Allen

Now I know that anytime you see a "no trespassing" sign, it means you've got to go in and take a look. — Kyung-Sook Shin

Solitude devastates me; company oppresses me. The presence of another person derails my thoughts; I dream of the other's presence with a strange absent-mindedness that no amount of my analytical scrutiny can define. — Fernando Pessoa