Potry Quotes & Sayings

I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Gould's wife when I was researching 'The Moor,' and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor. — Laurie R. King

The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words. — Francois Fenelon

Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies. — Gaston Rebuffat

Intimacy with a beloved pet or special animal makes millions of people feel as though they win the lottery every day. — Marty Becker

Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready. — Patrick Ewing

There are many men like this; they can form a plausible theory and grasp its logical points, but take it away from them and destroy it utterly before their eyes, and they will not so easily lash their tired brains at once to build another theory in place of the one that is ruined. — Lord Dunsany

Anybody doesn't like these pitchers don't like potry, see? Anybody don't like potry go home see television shots of big hatted cowboys being tolerated by kind horses. Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes. — Jack Kerouac

The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists. — Joan Robinson

And life goes on like this,
an uncomplete poem. — Arzum Uzun

Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched. — George Will

He was like a book, where each chapter picks up pace until you can't put it down. That's when you know you've made a friend - when you want to read more of his story. — Katie Kacvinsky

The only people I owe an apology to are my dead parents. Except my father because he's still alive. — Chelsea Handler

It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing. — Angelina Jolie

One must concede to others what one tolerates in oneself. — Muriel Barbery

Make sure that when you touch the other person, all your five senses are working, because sex has a life of its own. The moment you begin, you're no longer in control; it takes control of you. And whatever you bring to it, your fears, your desires, your sensibility will remain. That's why people become impotent. When you have sex, take with you to bed only love and your senses, all five of them. Only then will you experience communion with God. — Paulo Coelho

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger. — Thomas Brooks

Just as you say, sir. There is a letter on the tray, sir."
"By Jove, Jeeves, that was practically potry. Rhymed, did you notice? — P.G. Wodehouse

Elrond," Bruce said. "The Council of Elrond. From Lord of the Rings. It's the meeting where they decide to destroy the One Ring."
"Jesus," Annie said. "None of you got laid in high school, did you? — Andy Weir