Jan Potocki Quotes

#1. I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

Tucker Max

#2. It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

Bjorn Borg

#3. Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

Oscar Wilde

#4. She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.

John Dufresne

#5. If anything, it was a very egotistical thing because I wanted to move people. I wanted to tell a story and move people.

Giles Matthey

#6. The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes on the sly do it, Even eagles as they fly do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.

Cole Porter

#7. Maybe I live in what is for me the wrong time.

Jack Finney

#8. I study theology in the works of creation and find in it new reasons for adoring the creator.

Jan Potocki

#9. She has intelligent, flirtatious eyes, and a penetrating gaze under which one feels simultaneously appraised, tested, charmed, toyed with. They remain, I suspect, a redoubtable seduction tool.

Khaled Hosseini

#10. Its not so much that we believe what we see, but that we see what we believe

Geneen Roth

#11. Throughout this book I will use the terms African-American, black, and Negro interchangeably. There is rarely a logic to it, so please try not to overthink it.

Baratunde R. Thurston

#12. Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea is individually followed by all conclusions it entails.

Jan Potocki

#13. I would have so many friends if I help back the truth and just gave out compliments.

Drake

#14. My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding.

Jonny Lang

#15. Words strike the air and the mind, they act on the senses and on the soul.

Jan Potocki

#16. The shears found his throat this time. He fell down on top of them and was silent.
Something dark like mucilage glistened where he lay.
She had jumped back - not in remorse, but to keep the bottom of her skirt clear of his blood. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

Cornell Woolrich

#17. Social cooperation is our key for survival and reproduction.

Yuval Noah Harari