Z Potock Quotes & Sayings

I have a trainer that I box with. Luckily, on ER, they'll tell me if I have a shirtless scene coming up and I'll have a few weeks to power it out. — John Stamos

Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown. — Martin Luther

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt

Girls bat their eyelashes and act like they don't know anything in front of guys they like, or give a little bit of eye contact, but not too much, or a bit of touching. Or being coy. Sure, I do a bit of that. — Hilary Duff

They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged. — Zora Neale Hurston

If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems. — Robert Kiyosaki

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes. — Gustave Flaubert

I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting. — Tracey Ullman

The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity. — Northrop Frye

[John Edwards] is the man that Rielle Hunter called 'real and authentic,' which tells us all we need to know about her mental abilities. This is why she can't figure out why he picked her. He could have had a multitude of sweet young things but he chose a 42-year-old who is one bleach job away from turning into one big split end, because his tumescent ego demands that he be the pretty one. — Florence King

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves. — Herbert A. Simon

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most people are squeamish about saying how much they earn, but in medicine the situation seems especially fraught. Doctors aren't supposed to be in it for the money, and the more concerned a doctor seems to be about making money the more suspicious people become about the care being provided. — Atul Gawande

Buying a gun was out of the question. First, it would be difficult to keep nearby while doing a nude massage. — Marshall Thornton

Fresca, or Diet Rite?" I asked. "I'll have a Fanta," she said. — Rachel Cohn