Poons Quotes

#1. But since the new Archchancellor never paid much attention to anything anyone said while he was eating, and Poons never noticed that he wasn't getting any answers, they got along quite well.

Terry Pratchett

#2. The Dean leaned toward an ear.
"I was saying," he said loudly, "that we didn't know the meaning of the word 'sex' when we were young."
"That's true. That's very true," said Poons. He stared reflectively at the flames. "Did we ever, mm, find out, do you remember?

Terry Pratchett

#3. And it suddenly dawned on the late Windle Poons that there was no such thing as somebody else's problem, and that just when you thought the world had pushed you aside it turned out to be full of strangeness.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Just because a cop smiles at you when he asks for your license and registration doesn't change the fact that he's carrying a loaded gun.

JoAnn Bassett

#5. 21Then Peter came up and said to him, "Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?" 22Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven. [87] 23"Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king

Anonymous

#6. It was exhausting being a schizophrenic, which he was still convinced he was.

Meg Wolitzer

#7. There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

Larry Poons

#8. There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.

Larry Poons

#9. Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

Ben Bernanke

#10. The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

Larry Poons

#11. If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.

Larry Poons

#12. I think social media is a great place to share ideas and to connect with other people.

Kaitlyn Dever

#13. I don't really prepare for each role the same way.

Jim Caviezel

#14. Ah, my dear; and I shall never be happy unless I can open the windows!

Edith Wharton

#15. Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

Morgan Wootten

#16. A great painting is a great painting.

Larry Poons

#17. If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.

Larry Poons

#18. I try to stay away from forced intimacy.

Paz De La Huerta

#19. A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something.

Kirsten Dunst

#20. Today the great gift of God's Creation is exposed to serious dangers and lifestyles which can degrade it. Environmental pollution is making particularly unsustainable the lives of the poor of the world ... we must pledge ourselves to take care of creation and to share its resources in solidarity.

Pope Benedict XVI

#21. Tis hard to fight with anger but the prudent man keeps it under control.

Democritus