Portnoi Si Quotes & Sayings

There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it. — Rene Descartes

Watch a good movie sometime without reference to what's happening but only with attention to how it was photographed; you'll see the change of focus - zoom in, pan out, close-up on face, fade to black, open from above - easily. You want to do that in what you write; it's one of the things that keep people's eyes on the page, though they're almost never conscious of it. — Diana Gabaldon

The only people that really matter are the people that are in my inner circle. — Terrell Owens

I've been married for 49 years. Where have I failed? — Henny Youngman

The greatest joy of being a teacher, Mr.Karasuma is when a student provides a clear answer to a question you had your doubts about. — Yusei Matsui

She'd never set a fantasy in a ski lodge, but she was thinking about it now. She couldn't help it. The man was throwing off pheromones like he was a nuclear reactor at Chernobyl. Sitting so close to ground zero, the fallout was lethal. — Rachel Gibson

Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse. — Chelsea Cain

I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out. — Nick Harkaway