Spoils Of Poynton Quotes & Sayings

His voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking — George R R Martin

I felt strong for once. I felt like I could do anything. Be anything. — Laura-Louise Slattery

I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can. — Gary Oldman

Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be. — Doris Lessing

People should just be allowed to look in the mirror and see all kinds of possibilities. — M-E Girard

During bomb drills, we students were told to crouch under our desks. Apparently the desks used in classrooms in the fifties were made of an exceptionally missile-resistant variety of wood. During the Cold War years I often wondered why it never occurred to our defense planners to protect the entire nation from nuclear attack by simply covering it, from sea to shining sea, with a huge Strategic Classroom Desk. — Dave Barry

A latent warmth flickers behind those golden, burning rings. The Cold struggles to squelch it, shrouding it with the frigid Night. It almost smothers it entirely.
Almost.
But I know it is still there. It is like the heat of an unassuming coal beneath a blanket of graying ash. It is hidden, but not extinguished.
I can feel it. I can feel its gentle breath against my skin, like distant sunlight during newborn spring.
I can hear it. I can hear it reaching to divide the curtains of shadow on his face, like the whispers of blossoms unfolding.
I can see it. I can see it behind his fiery eyes, flickering like a starlight-dappled pool, dancing in and out of view.
It is buried. Buried, but burning nonetheless. Buried but burning, like one last hope in my heart. One last Ember in the dark.
-The Penitent God — S.G. Night

To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I knew you could know the words but not match them with the life. But to be able to do it right said something about you. And I didn't know if my judgment was good enough, or exactly what was good or bad. Though there must be times, I thought, when there was no right thing to know, just as there were times when there was no right thing to do. — Richard Ford

Donald and I still really wanted to be together, but I was fighting to keep what we had privately, and once the world gets involved in your life, little by little it breaks it down until you forget what it was in the first place. — Marla Maples