Potiki Quotes & Sayings

It's normal at this point for the fear-anger syndrome to take over and make you want to hammer on that side plate with a chisel, to pound it off with a sledge if necessary. You think about it, and the more you think about it the more you're inclined to take the whole machine to a high bridge and drop it off. It's just outrageous that a tiny little slot of a screw can defeat you so totally. — Robert M. Pirsig

I believe in freedom of speech. And I believe that spending on political campaigns is a form of political speech that is protected under the constitution. — Marco Rubio

He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness. — T. J. Stiles

After all, I wasn't even sure if the ancient causes belonged to me in the first place because being born into a belief tended to make me feel more like I belonged to it instead. — J.D. Brewer

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner. — Samuel Johnson

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done. — Tracy Kidder

The essentially contradictory phrase 'legitimate autodidacticism' is intended to indicate the difference in kind between the highly valued 'extra-curricular' culture of the holder of academic qualifications and the illegitimate extra-curricular culture of the autodidact. — Pierre Bourdieu

Mr. Arsenikos said if you knew the constellations you would never get lost. You could always find your way home. — Bryn Greenwood

I study to learn, to be an educated person. — Gary Sinise

The world is run by C students — Al McGuire

You have to excuse me because I AM a teenager, so I'm allowed to sound illiterate and make stupid comments like 'I'm not into hard-core feminism.' — Christina Ricci