Pontikes Affair Quotes

#1. There was a rare form of security with a man who had broken laws just to be with me, a surety that he wanted my body, craved it beyond normal reasoning. And

Skye Warren

#2. The average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

H.L. Mencken

#3. I reproached them all for not having told me of my son's departure, and for not stopping him, until that interfering old biddy Eurycleia confessed that she alone had aided and abetted him.

Margaret Atwood

#4. Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.

Tana French

#5. I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around in an animal skin, my ancestors were building the pyramids.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

#6. I'm hungry for a cold and mean character. I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie - someone really scary.

Jessica Brown Findlay

#7. I used to be a folk singer, but I was ... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog. And being a folk singer doesn't make you attractive to women.

Billy Connolly

#8. [C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.

James Grant

#9. The reality you experience is a reflection of what you believe is most possible.

Darryl Anka

#10. I get up around 7 a.m. That's very early for a stand-up comic. Then I'll have breakfast with my husband, the artist Al Ridenour, take my three dogs for a walk and commence with my work.

Margaret Cho

#11. I thus concluded, with the same awe of Jane Goodall discovering the chimpanzees' nimble use of tools to extract termites, it really wasn't so much the tragic event itself, but others having knowledge of it that prevented recovery.

Marisha Pessl

#12. Digital books, like television and other media, are best meant for those Pandoras who've already opened their boxes and know what demons to expect inside.

Jason Merkoski

#13. A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.

Dan Colen