Portlandia Toni Quotes & Sayings

It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own. — Justin Cronin

The heart has reasons that reason cannot know. — Blaise Pascal

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself. — Michelle Pfeiffer

In the end many will remembered you for your love, help, empathy & contributes to helping build a brighter world. Start building those memories today. Kindness is everything. — Timothy Pina

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
— David Allan Coe

The vegetation has crawled mile for mile towards the towns. It is waiting. When the town dies, the Vegetation will invade it, it will clamber over the stones, it will grip them, search them, burst them open with its long black pincers; it will bind the holes and hang its green paws everywhere. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Short is my date, but deathless my renown. — Homer

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan. — Quentin Crisp

I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education. — Edward Norton

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for. — George Sand

The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now — George Orwell

Even in the Belt, youth brought invulnerability, immortality, the unshakable conviction that for you, things would be different. The laws of physics would cut you a break, the missiles would never hit, the air would never hiss out into nothing. — James S.A. Corey

I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper ... and I clearly related it to paleontology. Darwin argued that the fossil record is very incomplete because some species fossilize better than others ... I noted that you are never going to find evidence of a small local population that changed very rapidly in the fossil record ... Gould was my course assistant at Harvard where I presented this theory again and again for three years. So he knew it thoroughly. So did Eldredge. In fact, in his 1971 paper Eldredge credited me with it. But that was lost over time. — Ernst W. Mayr

Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon. — Hunter S. Jones