Fairfield Porter Quotes

The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.

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• I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Country
  • Family
  • Business

• I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Myself
  • Player
  • Never

• It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.

  

  Barney Ross
  • People
  • Me
  • Lucky

• When the facts are on your side, there is huge power in pitching with questions. Because questions are active rather than passive. They necessitate a response.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Power
  • Facts
  • Questions

• Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Done
  • Together
  • Chance

• Whenever there was a pause on the 'Hercules' set, everybody whipped their Blackberries out of their skirts - 'Are you texting the King of Thrace to tell them we're on our way?'

  

  Ian McShane
  • Way
  • You
  • King

• I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • New
  • Media
  • Very

• You are sure your enemy is stupid because he doesn't do things as you would do them. It will make you careless, and your enemy will surprise you.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Enemy
  • Stupid

• They say gravity is the centre of attraction ; I rather think that noise is. Nothing so soon assembles the inhabitants of a house as a loud and sudden noise : …

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • House

• Persecution, then, gives rise to a peculiar technique of writing, and therewith to a peculiar type of literature, in which the truth about all crucial things is presented exclusively between the lines. That literature is addressed, not to all readers, but to trustworthy and intelligent readers only.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Literature

• We were too light, Electra. Now our feet press down in the earth like the wheels of a cart in its groove. Come with me, and we will walk heavily, bending under the weight of our heavy load.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Earth
  • Light

• Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic

• A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

  

  Bobby Bowden

• What makes 'American Pie' so unusual is that it isn't a relic from the counterculture but a talisman, which, like a sacred river, keeps bringing joy to listeners everywhere. When 'American Pie' suddenly is played on a jukebox or radio, it's almost impossible not to sing along.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • American
  • Joy
  • River

• The amount of things I want to tweet that I get talked out of? It's probably four times a week. I'm very hotheaded.

  

  Khloe Kardashian

• My father was the nurturing one, the one who always made sure my sister and I ate properly and that our hair was brushed... He really took care of the logistics of our upbringing.

  

  Kenza Fourati
  • Father
  • Hair
  • Sister

• I'll start searching for that ideal partner when I turn 40. That will be a turning point in my life.

  

  Coco Martin
  • Life
  • Partner

• When I pull my hair back in a ponytail, that's how you know I'm having a hard day.

  

  Belinda Johnson
  • Hair

• Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Death
  • Birth
  • Different Aspects

• 'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

  

  Dave Barry

• My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Mother

• Chiki Sarkar edited 'Mrs Funnybones,' and she is a ruthless but kind editor to work with. The only lesson I learnt during this process was to say, 'Yes, Prime Minister,' and re-write.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • Work
  • She

• And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Together
  • Fire
  • Two

• The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.

  

  Fairfield Porter