Porlock Quotes

#1. Coleridge received the Person from Porlock
And ever after called him a curse,
Then why did he hurry to let him in?
He could have hid in the house.

Stevie Smith

#2. The Queen was saying only the other day that London property prices are so high that she doesn't know how she'd cope without Buckingham Palace,' Princess Margaret explained to a sympathetic Peter Porlock.

Edward St. Aubyn

#3. I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

Christie Hefner

#4. So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.

Alain De Botton

#5. My father could talk about the Romany way of life and its culture. He could talk about freedom and the Scottish spirit. But that was all he could talk about. I was desperate for someone to talk to but there was just nobody there.

Sara Sheridan

#6. Your present challenges or limitations cannot stop you from becoming what God has ordained you to be.

Tonto Dikeh

#7. History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#8. Did he actually believe in this curse? A curse! He snorted. Deirdre stirred.
Impossible. Curses were for witches, spell casters and the weak-minded.

Jean M. Grant

#9. Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

Pico Iyer

#10. Put your 'yes' on the table and let God put it on the map.

Ed Stetzer

#11. I just want to be written about as a normal artist.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#12. Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the whole
world had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then
lay down with our blankets for a nap.

Robert Fulghum

#13. Writing makes it even harder than concrete. Writing makes it hard as diamond.

Caitlin R. Kiernan