Zotts Portola Quotes & Sayings

Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding. — Benjamin Franklin

People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right. — Iris Apfel

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing. — Graham Greene

You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who were there, how it jerked its wings before dying, and left a spot of blood on the floor after it was removed. But who among you was first to notice the negative bird it left in the window? Who first saw the shadow that the bird left behind, the shadow that drew blood from any finger that dared to trace it, the shadow that was better proof of the bird's existence than the bird ever was? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Look. All books are weird when you think about it ... It goes without saying that real life is also weird. — Kelly Link

I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people. — Diane Kruger