Portico's Quotes

#1. Hold fast," he called. "Tell me your names, and your stations."
"I am the Lady Door," said Door. "I am Portico's daughter, of the House of the Arch."
"I am Hunter. I am her bodyguard."
"Richard Mayhew," said Richard. "Wet.

Neil Gaiman

#2. A multichild household is a pit of petty jealousies, this I knew, and the Nash children were panicking at the idea of competing not just with one another, but with a dead sister. They had my sympathies.

Gillian Flynn

#3. All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the portico, just as graceful as a sick cat.

Megan Whalen Turner

#4. Love is a powerful force. There is nothing in this world, no other energy, as powerful as the force of genuine, unconditional love.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#5. I would like congratulate everyone who was a part of 'Life of Pi.'

Anupam Kher

#6. Never believe that you are strong. Know that you are.

Ben Tolosa

#7. The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life isn't to make you number one in the world's eyes but to make Him number one in your life.

Ravi Zacharias

#8. Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

Michael Johnson

#9. After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

Mason Cooley

#10. When people laughed at him because he walked backward beneath the portico, he said to them: Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?

Diogenes Of Sinope

#11. I thought I'd do something nice for the band ... I'll hang myself.

Jason Newsted

#12. (27) And what could make thee conceive what hell-fire is? (28) It does not allow to live, and neither leaves [to die],

Anonymous

#13. Yes," Tanner nodded. "I have great appreciation for neoclassical architecture. The ten pillars in the portico give the building a remarkable feeling of dignity and charm."

Bethany lowered her eyes and stifled a giggle. When Tanner put on an act, he put it on well.

Carol Kinsey

#14. If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.

Thom Yorke

#15. In harmony there is nothing strange. And life is a vast harmony. I've understood this. But, you see- the moulded whimsy of a frieze on a portico keeps us from recognizing, sometimes, the symmetry of the whole ...

Vladimir Nabokov

#16. I was gonna put him on the bus ... I got tired of him talking, it was time for him to go home.

Michael Lewis

#17. as those old engravings of the 'Cenacolo,' or that painting by Gentile Bellini, in which one sees, in a state in which they no longer exist, the masterpiece of Leonardo and the portico of Saint Mark's. We

Marcel Proust

#18. God desires to work supernaturally through normal people who are willing to follow Him wholeheartedly and reflect His glory.

Sally Clarkson