Ponge Quotes

#1. The self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#2. Justice may be blind but it loves the sound of money.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

Gary Becker

#4. When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at length, the more slowly it melts, the better quality it is.

Francis Ponge

#5. He took a few steps before responding. "You are special," he finally said, and the way e said it made her wonder if he wanted to add something else.

Nicholas Sparks

#6. interrupted, he would fall silent, then began his sentence again in exactly the same place to tell it in his own way, at his own speed.

Mar Preston

#7. Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.

George Berkeley

#8. History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.

Francis Ponge

#9. We carry out our work under the leadership of the government.

Li Shufu

#10. The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.

Ben Bernanke

#11. As if Mitchell needed another reminder that Julie wasn't the woman for him, fate delivered.
Julie snored.
Not a cute little snuffle either, but snorts worthy of an overweight truck driver named Bubba.

Lauren Layne

#12. Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnameable.

Francis Ponge

#13. You can't fake joy. Authentic joy is the kind that grows out of the soil of pain and doubt and fear, because that is the reality of the world.

Holly Ordway

#14. I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?

Jon Fishman

#15. For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.

Francis Ponge

#16. Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a child with schoolbooks and pencils. The day seems to have no order until these times, which are like a ledger for her, her body full of stories and situations.

Michael Ondaatje

#17. Call me once you've taken care of that hard-on in your pants, so you'll last longer than ten seconds when we fuck.

Tina Folsom