Popkin Quotes

#1. The gunslinger had no idea what tooter-fish was, but he knew a popkin when he saw it.

Stephen King

#2. Of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to live by twos, with someone close with whom to share good and bad, to hear breathing in the dark room at night. Being alone is the one unnatural act.

Zelda Popkin

#3. Everything happens for a reason, Sadie, even bad things.

Rick Riordan

#4. Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.

Zelda Popkin

#5. Pity runs its course. An hour comes when no hand but your own can build your future.

Zelda Popkin

#6. In mathematics, there's a name for this short-term greed, the process of always choosing the option that gives you instant gratification. It's called the "greedy algorithm," and following it almost always leads to a plateau.

Bob Sullivan

#7. Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.

Zelda Popkin

#8. Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.

Zelda Popkin

#9. There's no privacy for the violently dead.

Zelda Popkin

#10. We suffered for our music. Now, it's your turn.

Sam Bush

#11. Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.

Zelda Popkin

#12. When I am at a straight club, which is like once a year, if a man even looks in my direction, I verbally attack him.

Jill Bennett

#13. Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?

Constantin Stanislavski

#14. No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.

Zelda Popkin

#15. New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own business. Police cars, ambulances, fire engines - nobody even turns around for them. We go to the movies for excitement.

Zelda Popkin

#16. I always say if I play my best it's difficult to beat me

Serena Williams

#17. Compliance" is just a subset of "governance" and not the other way around.

Pearl Zhu

#18. A country inn is a percolator. News seeps, simmers, and bubbles.

Zelda Popkin

#19. Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

Henry Ward Beecher

#20. Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

#21. What he found impossible was to shut off his brain, to detach himself from the intriguing problems with which (he) was involved, or to leave alone the major problems of war and peace, race and poverty, man's inhumanity to man and the persistence of stupidity.

Zelda Popkin

#22. I think part of him actually wants to be hated. He only ever shows you what he wants you to see. He's so closed off-it made me feel like he'd never tell.

Michelle Hodkin

#23. Only by intertwining these two perspectives, the biological and the phenomenological, can we gain a fuller understanding of the immanent purposiveness of the organism and the deep continuity of life and mind.

Evan Thompson

#24. The gospel is good news to those who know they don't measure up. It's offensive to those who think they do.

Tullian Tchividjian

#25. I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

Feist

#26. We can't know what's going to happen. We can just try to figure it out as we go along.
- Roger Sullivan

Morgan Matson

#27. Philosophy is the architectonic art and the philosopher the archetypal person

Richard H. Popkin

#28. Well, we'll have no more of such foolishness," I say harshly, to cover the wavering in my voice. "We're getting married, and that's that.

Rae Carson

#29. Each husband gets the infidelity he deserves.

Zelda Popkin