Potchi Quotes & Sayings

Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it. — Peter O'Toole

Scientists have discovered a black hole that is 12 billion times the size of our sun. It's full of Hillary Clinton emails. — David Letterman

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time. — Lech Walesa

Dream big.
Any thing is possible. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. — John Churton Collins

Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois ... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years. — J. Michael Straczynski

October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows. — Joy Fielding

The commentaries on the Commedia also began stacking up at my bedside and on the bookshelf next to my chair in the den. There was Charles Williams's The Face of Beatrice, Harriet Rubin's Dante in Love, Yale scholar Giuseppe Mazzotta's Reading Dante, and later the galleys for English Dantist Prue Shaw's Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity. Most important of all, I began listening to the Great Courses audio lectures by Bill Cook and Ron Herzman, which made the poem come alive like nothing else. — Rod Dreher

The average person lets their emotions dictate their actions, while achievers let their commitments dictate their actions. — Hal Elrod

That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are an essential part and characteristic of beauty. — Charles Baudelaire

If you're thinking of calling on that Mrs. Pentstemmon, you can save yourself the trouble. The old biddy's dead."
"Dead?" said Sophie. She had a silly impulse to add, But she was alive an hour ago! And she stopped herself, because death is like that: people are alive until they die. — Diana Wynne Jones

I know enough to know that when you're in a pickle ... call Mom. — Jennifer Garner