Portlandia Pet Sounds Quotes & Sayings

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in. — Thomas McGuane

Staring thus closely at time we suddenly realize that what many look upon as a bromide is really a bombshell; namely, the fact that "there is no time like the present." Indeed, no! For it is the only time God grants to any of us. He does not give us years, months, days, or even hours. He grants us nothing but the truly, indivisible, yet immense and immeasurable, Now. This is "your time" - part of "your hour. — M. Raymond

Being left alone - and I am being left alone - isn't quite as much what I wanted as I thought. Is this how people become evil? I don't want to be. — Jo Walton

I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken. — Kurt Cobain

Shoot first, ask questions last. That's how these so called gangsta's last. — Waka Flocka Flame

In the days when the world begins to bleach and shrivel, and the sun is blotched with death. Socialist and Individualist, they'll all be a little dirt lodged deep in the granite wrinkles of the globe's countenance. — Clark Ashton Smith

My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother. — Laura Dern

A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the depth, make you feel the underlying emotion, make you sense the larger world. That, too, is the power of science: to sense and convey the depth and dimensionality of nature, to glance at the surface and to divine the shape of the universe around us. — Carl Safina

White camels, though highly prized in some areas, remain rare.18 One discovered in Rajasthan, India, was the first in living memory for that area. On the Arabian Peninsula, where white camels are actively bred for, they are more common but still rare.19 — Anonymous

She shrugs, smiles. "All you ever had to do was ask. — Kyra Davis

Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the principal which provided my starting point, once I had said to myself that if we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times in which those subjects live. — August Sander

A meeting is an occasion when people gather together, some to say what they do not think, and others not to say what they really do. — Vladimir Voinovich

He managed to retain a cheerful smile at all times - though, in the dreams, he screamed. — Robert Bloch