Porventura Design Quotes & Sayings

I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges. — Osip Mandelstam

I've done a little directing, but I love acting more. — Danica McKellar

This is the Hong Kong curse that expat housewives talk about in hushed voices: the man who takes to Hong Kong the wrong way. He moves from an egalitarian American society, where he's supposed to take out the trash every day and help with the dinner dishes, to a place where women cater to his every desire - a secretary who anticipates his needs before he does, a servant in the house who brings him his espresso just the way he likes it and irons his boxers and his socks - and the local population is not as sassy with the comebacks as where he came from, so, of course, he then looks for that in every corner of his life. — Janice Y.K. Lee

She was a widow, and he stripped himself naked while she went to fetch some of her husband's clothes. But before he could put them on, the police were hammering on the front door with their billy clubs. So the fugitive hid on top of a rafter. When the woman let in the police, though, his oversize testicles hung down in full view."
Trout paused again.
The police asked the woman where the guy was. The woman said she didn't know what guy they were talking about," said Trout. "One of the cops saw the testicles hanging down from a rafter and asked what they were. She said they were Chinese temple bells. He believed her. He said he 'd always wanted to hear Chinese temple bells. "He gave them a whack with his billy club, but there was no sound. So he hit them again, a lot harder, a whole lot harder. Do you know what the guy on the rafter shrieked?" Trout asked me. I said I didn't. "He shrieked, 'TING-A-LING, YOU SON OF A BITCH! — Kurt Vonnegut

We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them. — Judith Martin

The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful. — Mike Norton

Men try to cheat themselves into the belief that sin is not quite so sinful as God says it is, and that they are not so bad as they really are. — J.C. Ryle

I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do. — Johnny Mathis

Life is the risk we cannot refuse. — Mason Cooley

The direction a cloud moves is always approved of by the wind. — Marty Rubin

But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our minds and souls, in a spiritual adventure I would be very sorry for my grandchildren not to know about. — Kurt Vonnegut

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language. — Swami Vivekananda

Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present. — Damon Galgut

The red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
O, the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove. — John Boyle O'Reilly