Popinjay Quotes

#1. I am selfish, father? Because I will not become the thing I despise?"
"And narrow, Philips, to despise what you do not know."
"I am to be a painted popinjay! I tell you, sir, Cleone may take me as I am!"
"Or leave you as you are," said Sir Maurice gently.

Georgette Heyer

#2. A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?

Jodi Picoult

#4. I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient.

Clive Owen

#5. A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres.

Henri Matisse

#6. Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

Andrew Weil

#7. Life isn't much more than a big dig through layers of doubt and fear into new levels of power and potential.

Robin Sharma

#8. There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.

Ian Botham

#9. For all contempt turns upon the contemptuous, as it must.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#10. It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another ... for in it are good and evil mixed.

Lloyd Alexander

#11. I've always been an improviser. I was one before I knew even what the word was ... And acting, that I've been doing since I was 5.

Alan Arkin

#12. We are stronger together than we are alone.

Walter Payton

#13. Sometimes you see auteur TV shows and movies, and those are great.

Akiva Goldsman

#14. Silent lies are more venomous than cruel truths

Ben Oliveira