Promissor Quotes

#1. What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born.
[Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]

Horace

#2. I don't like big feet. It reminds me of gammon.

Steve Coogan

#3. Memory is the worst lender; It lends not until it borrows. And it borrows not unless it is broke at the previous lending.

Ashfaq Saraf

#4. Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of God's life in us.

Miroslav Volf

#5. Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

Gregory David Roberts

#6. I doubt I would ever be missed. Noted absent, charged delinquent, reprimanded but never missed.

Maria V. Snyder

#7. To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think.

Newt Gingrich

#8. Only in books the flat and final happens,
Only in dreams we meet and interlock ...

Philip Larkin

#9. I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother.

Naomi Watts