Top 100 Porter Quotes
#1. Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.
Jane Porter
#2. The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.
Katherine Anne Porter
#3. There's shit that's random and shit you can control. It's up to you to choose what you'll react to and how to make your mark. What do you choose to control?
Cat Porter
#4. Horas non numero nisi serenas,' 'I count - no - hours but - unclouded ones,
Eleanor H. Porter
#5. Dietz and Schwartz have sort of fallen by the wayside a little bit, and they are up there with Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. They are the finest of the revue composers - their stuff is so good and so strong.
Douglas Carter Beane
#7. I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
Gail Porter
#8. There was a piece of paper crumpled in the tight fist of the man. Porter opened the
fingers carefully and extracted the paper. On it, in a shaky script, were the words: Tell
them I killed the kid.
Sarah Margolis Pearce
#9. The entire time they're talking, I can't tear my eyes away from Porter. What I'm feeling for him now is like drowning and floating at the same time.
Jenn Bennett
#10. Pretend-dating Gray Porter is going to be like pretend-dating a rainbow. Everyone looks at him all the time.
Anne Eliot
#11. Comedy Central was really impressed by how quickly we got everyone to sign the releases for the CD. They've never seen anything that quick.
B. J. Porter
#12. There was not a single cross or worried-looking face. All seemed to have left their cares and anxieties in the porter's room with their hats, and were all deliberately getting ready to enjoy the material blessings of life.
Leo Tolstoy
#13. You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that are growing.
Michael Porter
#14. If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.
Jane Porter
#15. I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.
Peter Porter
#16. He also advised, "Take a job for what you can learn, not for what it will pay you.
Porter Gale
#17. I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.
Julie Harris
#18. So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving.
Michael Porter
#19. During my senior year, there were NBA scouts at my games. At some point, I guess, I started hoping I'd get drafted by a team where there would be a great situation for me. As it turned out, Portland was the best situation for me.
Terry Porter
#20. Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.
Archer John Porter Martin
#22. Now and again thousands of memories
converge, harmonize,
arrange themselves around a central idea
in a coherent form,
and I write a story.
Katherine Anne Porter
#23. I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.
Colin Wilson
#24. No matter who I couldn't save before, no matter if I'm stuck being a random mess of a girl, I'm still going to save something.
Sarah Porter
#25. It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.
Natalie Massenet
#26. In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.
Peter Porter
#27. If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.
Katherine Anne Porter
#28. It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.
George Porter
#29. I'm always weeping at something or other.
Gail Porter
#30. Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me.
Janet Street-Porter
#32. We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools.
Jon Porter
#33. Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing ... And never take advice, including this.
Katherine Anne Porter
#34. Always looking out for me, my big sister, no matter what. Even on her dying breath.
Cat Porter
#35. Nobody wants to phone me,
Even collect.
Cole Porter
#36. Makin, my friend, I thought you were just seeing her safely home."
"I was."
"What happened?"
"I couldn't let her go.
Jane Porter
#37. Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
Jane Porter
#38. pssst . . .your soul is calling you to freedom love and play!
Jan Porter
#39. You don't know your origin tales, your biological truth (accident), your deaths (mosquito bites, mostly), your lives (denial, cheerfully).
Max Porter
#40. There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.
Cole Porter
#41. The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.
Jane Porter
#42. I'm trying to embrace social media because it gives artists a little more power than we've had in the past.
Billy Porter
#44. You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
Gail Porter
#45. A new thing I've been doing is just making sure I clear off my desk and try to only touch a piece of paper once, so I get the mail, open it up, deal with it then. My son's homework, or what I get from his teachers, the same way. That way, it's not nagging me, things to add to my to-do list.
Adina Porter
#47. I slid my hand over his heart.
"I'm clawing my way in there deep."
"I can feel it, Scarlett. Make it hurt.
Cat Porter
#48. Caught baffled by the perplexing slow-release of sadness for ever and ever and ever. Which
Max Porter
#49. I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and
impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.
Eleanor Porter
#50. I close my eyes, knowing that afterward we will fall asleep together on our small mattress, as we do every night, listening to the wind in the palm trees outside our window, believing in our thick dreams that we are capable of nothing cruel.
Andrew Porter
#51. My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#52. We never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.
Jane Porter
#54. I'm not a person who believes that Broadway is the only place. I think there's lots of work that goes on outside of Broadway and outside of New York that's better than anything Broadway has ever seen. But, it's historically the place. It's one of the centers of the universe, in many ways.
Billy Porter
#55. It'll be just lovely for you to play
it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!
Eleanor Porter
#57. I've always been passionate about fashion.
Billy Porter
#58. Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera.
Eliot Porter
#59. Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
Michael Porter
#61. We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.
Katherine Anne Porter
#62. In fact, I believe that theological interpretation runs the risk of jeopardizing what it means to be a responsible biblical hermeneut, by attempting to overlook or negate, whether consciously or not, a biblical hermeneutic.
Stanley E. Porter Jr.
#63. For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.
Natalie Massenet
#64. Death is not the master of the house, he is only the porter of the king's lodge.
John Henry Jowett
#65. There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
Michael Porter
#66. I've owned more sofas than I've had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.
Janet Street-Porter
#67. I represent a district in Nevada, a state that is home to more wild horses than all other states combined.
Jon Porter
#68. In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.
Jon Porter
#69. Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty
he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.
Jane Porter
#70. In America, the problems of poverty and low income, particularly for minorities, are disproportionately focused in the inner cities. Shining a spotlight on the businesses growing in these communities is proof that any community has the potential for entrepreneurship.
Michael Porter
#71. ...I could feel her burrowing into my heart. I didn't know if the burrowing was like a kitten cuddling up to its mother or if it was like a chigger depositing its larvae underneath the skin of my ankles.
Jason Porter
#73. It is my firm belief that all our lives we are preparing to be somebody or something, even if we don't do it consciously. And the time comes one morning when you wake up and find that you have become irrevocably what you were preparing all this time to be.
Katherine Anne Porter
#74. Michael Porter said that "corporations can use philanthropy to improve their competitive context
Anonymous
#75. For me, when you are talking about perfect songs, you're talking about Gershwin, 'Someone To Watch Over Me.' Or Larry Hart and Richard Rodgers. Or some of the great Cole Porter songs, whether it's 'Night and Day' or some of the comedy songs. Or Irving Berlin, of course.
Maury Yeston
#76. This one is OK,' I say quietly.
'OK, OK, OK. Everything is always just 'OK'. It's so boring. Who wants to be 'OK'?
I sit for a moment and think about what she said. It doesn't take me long to realise that I, quite genuinely, just want to be OK.
Dawn O'Porter
#77. Love is purely a creation of the human imagination ... the most important example of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
Katherine Anne Porter
#78. She said. Mrs. Comstock did not reply. She watched the girl follow the long walk to the gate and go from sight on the road, in the bright sunshine
Gene Stratton-Porter
#79. The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
Michael Porter
#80. Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
Gail Porter
#81. Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.
Janet Street-Porter
#82. Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.
Janet Street-Porter
#83. I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'.
Peter Porter
#84. I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or 'Sherry,' I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.
Frankie Valli
#85. She was not busy dying, and there is no detritus of care, she was simply busy living, and then she was gone. She
Max Porter
#86. Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.
Katherine Anne Porter
#87. Such a big majority of book critics and authors have begun to teach, whether they really believe it or not, that no book is TRUE TO LIFE unless it is true to the WORST IN LIFE, that the idea has infected even the women.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#88. I have tried therapy a couple of times, but it hasn't worked.
Gail Porter
#89. We need not fear the future or falter in hope or good cheer, because God is with us.
Bruce D. Porter
#91. We do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.
Katherine Anne Porter
#92. Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.
Richard Sibbes
#93. There's this misconception that I've been turning down roles. It's just not true. The reality is, there was nothing for me to do, nobody was calling, the phone wasn't ringing.
Billy Porter
#94. Nine years ago I was alive. Nine years ago Jessica Anne Porter was fifteen years old.
Joan Frances Turner
#95. I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.
Marianne Faithfull
#96. The swamp had sent back the soul of her loved dead and put it into the body of the daughter she resented, and it was almost more than she could endure and live.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#97. I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.
Cole Porter
#99. Take what is good from the past
and carve a new path.
Jan Porter
#100. There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.
Jane Porter
