Portuondo Perotti Quotes & Sayings

The important thing is to keep them pledging," he explained to his cohorts. "It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean. — Joseph Heller

When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups. — Joe Cocker

Writers perform the so-called counterfactual thinking all the time. All the time. For most people, counterfactual thingking is a habit, but for writers, it is a necessity — Ika Natassa

We're living through a paradigm shift. People are going to look back at us and say, 'They used to cut people's legs off.' Then they'll just give an injection and the blood flow will be restored and the limb saved. — Robert Lanza

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do. — V.S. Naipaul

A dress is a weapon. It must dazzle his eye, raise his temperature ... and empty his purse. — Loretta Chase

You can't hide secrets from the future with math. — MC Frontalot

I've been wearing jeans all my life. I remember my first denim as a kid because my mum used to buy me OshKosh overalls. — Clemence Poesy

technically, her last disaster hadn't been her fault she knew another accident would get her fired. Her brief was to be invisible, and she considered herself perfectly qualified for the job. In a world where extroverts were celebrated, she was an introvert. She'd spent most of her life blending into the background. First in the playground, where she'd hidden away in books written by other people, and then at college, when she'd hidden in the books she'd written herself. Lost in her own fictional world, she became each and every one of her heroines and endowed them with qualities she herself coveted, namely courage, communication skills and coordination. Her current creation was Lara Striker, small-town girl finally returning home and trying to live down her badgirl reputation. Matilda stared through the crowd, her mind — Sarah Morgan