Puncher Portal Quotes & Sayings

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to. — Thornton Wilder

I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility. — Abhishek Bachchan

Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes ... — David Mazzucchelli

I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph. — Charles Francis Richter

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher. — Bunker Roy

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. — Bob Dylan

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on. — Lewis Black

If you play "I Don't Want To Know" by Fleetwood Mac loud enough
you can hear Lindsey Buckingham's fingers sliding down the strings of his acoustic guitar ... And we were convinced that this was the definitive illustration of what we both loved about music; we loved hearing the INSIDE of a song. — Chuck Klosterman

The battered idealist. It's just my favorite character ... To me, a hero is somebody who is able to accept the environment of the world, deal with the stuff that's thrown in their path ... and somehow keep their heart. — Cameron Crowe

system that overcompensates is necessarily in overshooting mode, — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We prefer to imagine brutal wars and atrocities as events that "just happen" every now and then, much like tornadoes or lightning strikes; this metaphor suggests that we can't generalize from them, since they are radically discontinuous with ordinary life. But wars and atrocities do not "just happen": societies and individuals slide into them, little by little, one tiny decision or omission at a time. (p214) — Rosa Brooks

In recent philosophy there has been a growing awareness of the gap between the abstract principles proposed by philosophers and the ways in which people actually think. The kind of rationality admired in the theory of knowledge is idealization. In the real world people have to act on beliefs often based on fragmentary and unreliable evidence. — Jonathan Glover

Without marriage there will be no misery - and no laughter either. There will be so much silence ... it will be Nirvana on the earth! Marriage keeps thousands of things going on: the religion, the state, the nations, the wars, the literature, the movies, the science; everything, in fact, depends on the institution of marriage. — Rajneesh

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours
long hallways and unforeseen stairwells
eventually puts you in the place you are now. — Ann Patchett