Portieres Quotes & Sayings

From my own experience I can say that a bad back makes you hike slower, stove-up knees keep you from wading confidently, tendinitis of the elbows buggers your casting, and a dose of giardia can send you dashing to the bushes fifteen times in an afternoon, but although none of this is fun, it's discernibly better than not fishing. — John Gierach

When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it. — Slim Moon

The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him. — Ray Bradbury

beneath the fragile and very human veneer of the organized churches of the world, there lies a truth so real and so pristine that all of man's concocted philosophical posings tumble into ruin beside it. — C.S. Lewis

If I get frustrated, the first thing I'll do is get up from the piano - completely mindlessly - and walk over to the cupboard and pull out something salty to eat. — Sara Bareilles

The portieres were drawn across the French windows now, veiling the stars outside - that were there nevertheless. ("Speak To Me Of Death") — Cornell Woolrich

Why is it that when you discover you can't have something, you want it even more? — Alexandra Potter

Records are very powerful promotional tools to go out and be able to play on the road, but you do have to think about it as a way of sustaining itself at some point. — Lyle Lovett

Cigarettes and coffee, man, that's a combination. — Iggy Pop

The beauty Snow White's got has nothing to do with him. She's scarred up and suspicious and shameless. Her pretty's not for him. It's like saying the moon's got a fine figure on her. Maybe true, but what good is that to a man? Snow — Catherynne M Valente

I mean, when the British burned down the White House in the war of 1812, did we plant a "Tree of Remembrance" in the ashes, or did we get busy rebuilding? — Brian K. Vaughan

People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace. — Sathya Sai Baba

I'd be anonymous. That's what I'd do differently. — George R R Martin