Pronombres Quotes & Sayings

[What a great way to describe how a city takes its unique "shape"...beautiful turn-of-phrase by Kieran Shields(!)]:

"It was a city of slopes, curves, and dips carved by glaciers and now criss-crossed by a network of angled streets and blocks, unfettered by any sense of regularity and uniformity. Portland's maze of cobbled roads was the result of two and a half centuries of fisherman and merchants driven by immediate necessity and that economy of steps that occurs naturally in a place where winters often lasted five months out of the year. — Kieran Shields

I've still got the same attitude I had when I started. I haven't changed anything but my underwear. — Robert Mitchum

Nobody in this band was a musician when they joined up, but everybody was in some kind of trouble. Play con entusiasmo, as loudly as you can, and trust the good will and bad ear of the gringo hellraiser. — Thomas Pynchon

A man can do but little. Enough if that little be right. — Poul Anderson

More and more individuals, owing to their bloodless indolence, will aspire to be nothing at all--in order to become the public: that abstract whole formed in the most ludicrous way, by all participants becoming a third party (an onlooker). — Soren Kierkegaard

In Britain, you know there are people waiting to tear your stuff apart, so it's important for me to know that my music has subtleties and depth to it. — Calvin Harris

when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create. — Why The Lucky Stiff

I think some girls get so caught up in the wedding part that they forget about the marriage part, and they end up bonded for life to the wrong person. It's not the wedding part that matters. — Wendy Wunder

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare. — Edward Thorndike

Yes, seven years old she was, when she finally plucked up the courage to ask her mother what Christmas was all about, and Mrs Castaway replied (once only, after which the subject was forever forbidden): 'It's the day Jesus Christ died for our sins. Evidently unsuccessfully, since we're still paying for them. — Michel Faber

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do. — Jaron Lanier

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. — Georges Clemenceau

The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them. — Colin Firth