Punctilios Quotes

#1. The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

Mark Twain

#2. Is everything funny? For me, yes. There's a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there's something in there that'll make you laugh.

Kevin Hart

#3. Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.

Boy George

#4. Your father ... isn't good with emotions." "Yeah. Figured that out a while ago." Like, when I was four and cried because our family cat died and he offered to have it stuffed as a means to make me feel better. It didn't.

Lindy Zart

#5. Styling is my form of painting. I can understand the process behind it, the being afraid to start, and the diving into it. I've learned not to be afraid of doing something that might not be right. If you don't try then you won't know.

Lori Goldstein

#6. I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

Josh Holloway

#7. It is not a vending-machine world, however, in which every coin of sin that is inserted results in individually packaged retribution.

Anonymous

#8. True devotion must not get dispirited; nor elated or satisfied with lesser gains; it must fight against failure, loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule and against egoism and pride , impatience and cowardice .

Sathya Sai Baba

#9. And I've been trying everything I can think of since to make up for it - short of tattooing her name on my ass and streaking across Yankee Stadium.
I was saving that for next week.

Emma Chase

#10. You look like a human being, but you don't have a mind of your own.

Ray Davies

#11. A father's calling is eternal and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity.

Ezra Taft Benson

#12. This whole world was a processed petroleum product.

Lev Grossman

#13. A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

Andrew Vachss

#14. If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.

Bill Hybels