Portum Quotes

#1. If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

Seneca The Younger

#2. The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.

Franz Werfel

#3. When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

Carla Bley

#4. It's very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.

Bob Hope

#5. The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.

Andrew Solomon

#6. It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#7. In some remote regions of Islam it is said, a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.

Raymond Mortimer

#8. Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#9. Life loiters at the book's first page,
Ah! could we turn the leaf.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.'

John Lennon

#11. I adore the game, but wouldn't be interested in being the England coach in a million years.

Leo Beenhakker

#12. The Germans love frankness and honesty. It is so convenient to be frank and honest. This confidingness, this complacence, this showing the cards of German honesty, is probably the most dangerous and most successful disguise which the German is up to nowadays.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.

Elton John

#14. If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

Michael Caine

#15. There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

Maria Edgeworth

#16. The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.

Adoniram Judson