Katherine Anne Porter Quotes
Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.Katherine Anne Porter
Quotes to Explore
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Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.
Nathan Myhrvold -
The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Anyone should be able to read comics.
Ted Rall -
I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
Cam Gigandet -
Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
Dan Castellaneta
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
Wayne Dyer -
I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
Rachael Harris -
I can't even imagine how it must be to be a solo artist playing with session musicians.
Oliver Sim The xx -
You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.
Laura Linney -
When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic and arbitrary, either, or that there are no universal laws.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
Malcolm Gladwell
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If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?
Olivier Martinez -
I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.
Octavia E. Butler -
I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
E. O. Wilson -
If you want to go east, don't go west.
Ramakrishna -
I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.
R. A. Salvatore -
Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.
Gary Busey
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The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.
Thomas Bulfinch -
If you want a change in the world, be the change.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.
Jayne Anne Phillips -
I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.
Jon Fishman -
Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
Katherine Anne Porter