Porringer Quotes

#1. Hunger was shred into atomics in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.

Charles Dickens

#2. Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

Neil Jordan

#3. Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same ... They can be neither separated, nor mixed.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#4. Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

David Hume

#5. It is when the politician loves neither the public good nor himself, or when his love for himself is limited and is satisfied by the trappings of office, that the public interest is badly served.

John F. Kennedy

#6. There is no recipe for good layout, what must be maintained is a feeling of change and contrast. A layout man should be simple with good photographs. He should perform acrobatics when the pictures are bad.

Alexey Brodovitch

#7. We encompass all of existence, yet a particle of our awareness is focused in this world, in the moment.

Frederick Lenz

#8. Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#9. You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.

Alanna Ubach

#10. People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.

Jean Paul

#11. During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studios.

Allison Anders

#12. Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party ... the poor and middle class.

Warren Buffett

#13. So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make ... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.

Kristin Bauer Van Straten

#14. Google's screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple's does. But it's not a complete list, and people aren't aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.

Al Franken

#15. I believe in the impossible. I live the impossible.

Heather Lyons