Pierpont's Quotes

#1. You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland.

Cristina Garcia

#2. A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#3. You do feel kind of nervous about any film you take on.

Guy Pearce

#4. If you are mesmerized by televised stupidity, and don't get to hear or read stories about your world, you can be fooled into thinking that the world isn't miraculous
and it is.

Anne Lamott

#5. Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound.

Twyla Tharp

#6. Well, I'm eventually gonna take the Daryl Hannah parts.

Gilbert Gottfried

#7. A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

Russell Lynes

#8. James Pierpont, one of the founders of Yale University.

Susie J. Pak

#9. If of these United States I was the President,No man that owed another should ever pay a cent;And he who dunn'd another should be banished far away,And attention to the pretty girls is all a man should pay.

James Pierpont

#10. The best use of family was having it in front of other people.

Julia Pierpont

#11. The will is the sovereign faculty and power of the soul; whatever principle acts in it and determines it, that hath the rule. Notwithstanding

John Owen

#12. The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind.

James Pierpont

#13. She hadn't learned to look for the difference yet between what one did and who one was. Hadn't even known there was a difference.

Julia Pierpont

#14. It is surely gratuitous to point out that the author suffered from an edifice complex (writing of Ayn Rand)

Claudia Roth Pierpont

#15. Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells. Jingle all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one horse open sleigh. Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way. Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one horse open sleigh.

James Pierpont

#16. To marry is to surrender everything
not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

#17. The only way to be absolutely safe is to never try anything for the first time.

Magnus Pyke

#18. If you deny the reality of your body or your life, you'll never be able to dress any of it well - even the parts you love. You have to see it all to work with any of it.

Stacy London

#19. But from a purely linguistic perspective, and as a rule of thumb, when two varieties of what used to be the same language are no longer mutually intelligible, they can be called different languages.

Guy Deutscher

#20. The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

Petrarch

#21. We thought we were living in between-time, after this and before that, but it's the between-time that lasted.

Julia Pierpont

#22. What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Barbara Tuchman

#23. I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high.

John Starks

#24. The end is never a surprise. People say Don't tell me, Don't spoil it, then later say, If only I'd known.

Julia Pierpont