Top 100 Po'boys Quotes
#1. I live in Connecticut, but eventually I'd like to move back to New Orleans. I grew up there; the pace is a bit slower. Plus, I love crawfish and po'boys.
Harry Connick Jr.
#2. In the end, without skill or talent, I've given myself over entirely to poetry. Po Chu-i labored at it until he nearly burst. Tu Fu starved rather than abandon it. Neither my intelligence nor my writing is comparable to such men. Nevertheless, in the end, we ALL live in phantom huts.
Matsuo Basho
#3. Legend has it that while drinking wine in a boat on the river, [8th century Chinese poet Li Po] tried to grab the moon's reflection on the surface and tumbled in, which is probably the poet's equivalent of dying bravely in battle.
Matthew White
#4. One of the things we love about Po [Kung Fu Panda] is that he's vulnerable. He's someone that we can all identify with because he has those insecurities. He's an outsider feeling guy.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
#5. Who you are is more important than what you do. The goal is to bring what you do in alignment with who you are, so you don't end up being someone you don't want to be.
Po Bronson
#6. Obese kids watch no more television than kids who aren't obese. All the thin kids watch massive amounts of television, too. There is no statistical correlation between obesity and media use, period.
Po Bronson
#7. Write first. Worry about getting an agent or publisher later. Write it first. Prove you can do it and then others will listen. Tons of people talk about books they want to write. Far fewer are those who actually complete that vision. Don't be a talker.
Po Bronson
#8. There is nothing wrong with making mistakes, but one should always make new ones. Repeating mistakes is a hallmark of dim consciousness.
Dave Sim
#9. They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed.
Kristin Cashore
#10. I think it's because Po [from Kung Fu Panda] is such a geek, and he is so relatable. He is so excited by life and is excited to learn new things. I think that accessibility is something that we all can relate to, there are so many things we wish we could do but don't have the means to achieve it.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
#11. Katsa now sat calmly on the stomach of her vanquished foe. "He was handsome," said said.
Po moaned. "Was he beat-to-a-pulp handsome, or perhaps just push-down-a-flight-of-stairs handsome?"
"I would not push a seventy six year old man down a flight of stairs," said Katsa indignantly.
Kristin Cashore
#12. Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.
Po Bronson
#13. In taking our marital arguments upstairs to avoid exposing the children to strife, we accidentally deprived them of chances to witness how two people who care about each other can work out their differences in a calm and reasoned way.
Po Bronson
#14. He laughed. I know you're teasing me. And you should know I'm not easily humiliated. You may hunt for my food, and pound me every time we fight, and protect me when we're attacked, if you like. I'll thank you for it.
Kristin Cashore
#15. It hurt her eyes, almost, Ror City; and it didn't surprise her that Po should come from a place that shone.
Kristin Cashore
#16. Po Campo had given him a hailstone dipped in molasses and he sat licking it and feeling alternately happy and sad while the men got dressed and prepared to be cowboys again.
Larry McMurtry
#17. He made her drunk, this man made her drunk; and every time his eyes flashed into hers she could not breathe.
Kristin Cashore
#18. It's not easy. It's not supposed to be easy. Most people make mistakes. Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.
Po Bronson
#19. Smeagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters,precious, eh, what's taters?"
"Po-ta-toes!" said Sam.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#20. When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.
George Foreman
#21. Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life.
Po Bronson
#22. I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.
Aasif Mandvi
#23. You know," he said, "I wish you could see this cave."
"What's it like?"
He paused. "It's ... beautiful, really."
"Tell me."
And so Po described to Katsa what hid in the blackness of the cave; and outside, the world awaited them.
Kristin Cashore
#24. The emphasis on winning is preventing kids from learning how to pass, which is the skill they ultimately need at the highest levels. The proposed solution is for top youth players to play fewer games.
Po Bronson
#25. We will pick our way through the shards of broken objects folly leaves behind. And some of what breaks will be very beautiful.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#26. I'll teach you how to defend yourself, how to maim a man. We can use Po as a model.'
'Wonderful,' Po said. 'It's quite boring really, the way you beat me to death with your hands and feet, Katsa. It'll be refreshing to have you come at me with a knife.
Kristin Cashore
#27. Love that has been tested is far more awe-inspiring than love that has never known anything but bliss.
Po Bronson
#28. Great seas," he said.
"What do you want?"
He held the candle up to her face.
"Po, what do you want?"
"She did a far better job than I would've done.
Kristin Cashore
#29. Once a profound truth is seen, it cannot be unseen.
Dave Sim
#30. Educational television had a dramatic effect on relational aggression. The more the kids watched, the crueler they'd be to their classmates. This correlation was 2.5 times higher than the correlation between violent media and physical aggression.
Po Bronson
#31. Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.
Kristin Cashore
#32. How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.
Po Bronson
#33. The more controlling the parent," Caldwell explained, "the more likely a child is to experience boredom.
Po Bronson
#34. Po flickered. "Thank you?" it repeated. "What is that?"
Liesl thought. "It means, You were wonderful," she said. "It means, I couldn't have done it without you.
Lauren Oliver
#35. When someone, anyone! Black, white, red, yellow, brown. Anybody! Disrespects you, get right on their ass, and stay there until somebody pulls you off. That's how you get respect, and teach people not to fuck with you at the same time.
Po Sally
#37. Allow for many paths to your goal. Do not fixate on one path, because then you are likely to give up when that path is blocked.
Po Bronson
#38. Mr. Smith was an art-ist, as well as an in-vent-or, and he paint-ed a pic-ture of a riv-er which was so nat-ur-al that, as he was reach-ing a-cross it to paint some flow-ers on the op-po-site bank, he fell in-to the wa-ter and was drowned.
L. Frank Baum
#39. We've all lost something along the way.
Po Bronson
#40. Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.
Po Bronson
#41. Love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places.
Lauren Oliver
#42. Here it is
right now. Start thinking about it and you miss it.
Huang Po
#43. We all make mistakes, but we need to learn from them and move on. You can own a mistake, or the mistake will own you.
Po Bronson
#44. I wish people would stop hitting Po," whispered Bitterblue.
"Well," Giddon said. "Yes. I'm hoping Skye is following my model. Punch Po; go on a long trip; feel better; come back and make up.
Kristin Cashore
#45. The ignorant eschew phenomena but not thought; the wise eschew thought but not phenomena.
Huang Po
#46. Suicide is career gold for the poet. Sadly, the poet isn't around to reap any benefits from it.
Jim Behrle
#47. Do not permit the events of your daily lives to bind you, but never withdraw yourselves from them. Only by acting thus can you earn the title of 'A Liberated One'.
Huang Po
#48. So we sit there
together
the mountain
and me, Li Po
said, until only the mountain
remains.
Franz Wright
#49. Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.
Huang Po
#50. If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon
Po Bronson
#51. I don't want to come over all po-faced, because ultimately Sherlock is just entertainment, but if I can, I want to try to set a good example.
Louise Brealey
#52. There's a powerful transformative effect when you surround yourself with like-minded people. Peer pressure is a great thing when it helps you accomplish your goals instead of distracting you from them.
Po Bronson
#53. People thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are - and connecting that to work that they truly love .
Po Bronson
#54. Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front of an audience. Knock a child into a river while no one's looking and then rescue him.
Kristin Cashore
#55. Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.
Oliver Goldsmith
#56. King Drowden has given his men instructions to infiltrate the town, bribe townspeople for the secrets of their neighbors, steal the neighbors' hidden treasures. Much more subtle than Drowden's usual smash and burn technique. We do hope Drowden isn't growing a brain.
Kristin Cashore
#57. I'm not such a bad fighter myself," Skye said. Po exploded with laughter. "Oh, fight him, Katsa. Please fight him. I can't imagine a more entertaining diversion.
Kristin Cashore
#58. They said later that Mrs. Merriweather was putting her all into the grand finale, that she had crooned, "Po-ork," with a confidence born of pine trees and butterbeans entering on cue. She waited a few seconds, then called, "Po-ork?" When nothing materialized, she yelled, "Pork!
Harper Lee
#59. Would you please do me the honor of telling me WHAT THE BLAZES IS GOING ON?
Kristin Cashore
#60. I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you. - Po
Kristin Cashore
#61. Anytime you exhaust yourself trying to relax, that's active leisure.
Po Bronson
#62. Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I'm afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
William Golding
#63. Success is not measured by bestseller lists. Certain types of great books sell very well; other types of great books don't sell a lot. But they're both great.
Po Bronson
#64. I've liked you better when Katsa's around,' Giddon said. 'She's so rotten to me that you seem positively pleasant in contrast.
Kristin Cashore
#65. I can connect with peoples' pain because I was 'po' before I was 'poor'.
Herman Cain
#66. Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.
Bernie Mac
#67. Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
#68. All that remained for him was the Po, his landscape, the mist and that little corner of his past which opened up inside the doors of Il Sordo (a local bar).
Valerio Varesi
#69. When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.
Dejan Stojanovic
#70. In the mornin' po-lice at my door
Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor
Out the back window.. I make a escape
Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape
Ice-T
#71. I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that's kind of a gift to the author. The gift of close, undivided attention. To who else do we listen so closely for eight straight hours? And when readers give that gift to me, I'm grateful for it.
Po Bronson
#72. Curiosity is a raw and genuine sign from deep inside our tangled psyches, and we'd do well to follow the direction it points us in.
Po Bronson
#73. I thought it was supposed to be impossible to sneak up on you. Eyes of a hawk and ears of a wolf and all.
Kristin Cashore
#74. Po's been sick, you know." "I'm sorry to hear that," he said, with no expression. "Don't be an ass. He's actually been quite unwell.
Kristin Cashore
#75. I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.
Po Bronson
#76. Enlightenment does not mean that your ego is suppressed or denied. It does mean that it is deconstructed, seen through, exposed, and then reeducated and reconstructed.
Jun Po Roshi
#77. Another way of saying "put it in the Book" would be that each poem we write pops up in the city of poetry, where anyone can visit it. Just as we visit the poems written before us. Go to Dickinson's house, or Li Po's or whomever we think has something to say to us that might help or be beautiful.
Gregory Orr
#78. I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me.
Po Bronson
#79. Katsa and Po had their arms around each other. It was difficult to tell if they were still wrestling or if the kissing had begun.
Kristin Cashore
#80. There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice.
Po Bronson
#81. She knew he was angry, but she couldn't stop laughing. "Forgive me, Po. I was only trying to get your attention."
"And I suppose it never occurs to you to start small. If I told you my roof needed rebuilding, you'd start by knocking down the house.
Kristin Cashore
#82. The curve of your eyes goes around my heart,
A round of dance and sweetness,
Halo of time, nocturnal and safe cradle,
And if I don't know any more all that I've lived through
It's because I haven't always been seen by you.
Paul Eluard
#83. As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Po Bronson
#84. one legend has it that Jews found Poland attractive because the country's name sounded like the Hebrew imperative po lin ("rest here").
Diane Ackerman
#85. There has never been a shrimp that I've eaten that I haven't been like, 'I am so lucky that I get to eat this.' I would eat a shrimp enchilada, shrimp burrito, shrimp cocktail, fried shrimp, shrimp po boy, shrimp gumbo.
Isabel Gillies
#86. Breakin' in cribs with a crowbar
I wasn't poor, I was po', I couldn't afford the 'o-r'
Big L
#87. I'm bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.
Kristin Cashore
#88. I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
Malcolm Gets
#89. The tougher the times, the more clarity you gain about the difference between what really matters and what you only pretend to care about.
Po Bronson
#90. Children key off their parents' reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself.
Po Bronson
#91. (about Dr. Po) Just another quack spouting psychobabble.
Eoin Colfer
#92. There is another world, other than/ this one we choose to live in.
Li Bai
#93. A Piece of writing has to seduce the reader, it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust
Po Bronson
#94. As she left the room, Po went to Katsa, pulled her up, sat himself in her chair, and drew her into his lap. Shushing her, he rocked her, the two of them holding on to each other as if it were the only thing keeping the world from bursting apart.
Kristin Cashore
#95. Liesl knew then that Po had been lying. The ghost did miss the living side. She understood then, too, that everyone drowns differently; and that for everyone, even ghosts, there is a different kind of air.
Lauren Oliver
#96. I learned that it was in hard times that people usually changed the course of their life; in good times, they frequently only talked about change. Hard times forced them to overcome the doubts that normally gave them pause.It surprised me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.
Po Bronson
#97. Po looked at her, but he didn't see her. His eyes snapped, silver ice and gold fire.
Kristin Cashore
#98. Katsa sat in the darkness of the Sunderan forest and understood three truths. She loved Po. She wanted Po. And she could never be anyone's but her own.
Kristin Cashore
#99. Upon your feet you have ten toes, they look just like PO-TA-TOES!
Jeff Smith
#100. The windowless room where the po'ouli cells are kept alive - sort of - is called the Frozen Zoo.
Elizabeth Kolbert
