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I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.
— Katherine Anne Porter
Porter Square Books was the only place I could find that was dog-friendly, work-friendly, and had food. I was there all the time.
— Matthew Pearl
An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.
— Peter Porter
Words can never get at the truth.
— Katherine Anne Porter
So the CD is a great way to get yourself acquainted with some people who in three years, maybe even one year, be really big.
— B. J. Porter
If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.
— Michael Porter
I should think you could be gladder on Monday mornin' than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one!
— Eleanor Porter
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
— Eleanor Porter
Each of us is a unique soul path expression that adds an amazing spark to the global community tapestry.
— Jan Porter
We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan.
— Jon Porter
We never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.
— Jane Porter
The worst thing baldness causes is loneliness.
— Gail Porter
I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
Night and day, you are the one.
— Cole Porter
Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
— Gail Porter
That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.
— Jane Porter
Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.
— Michael Porter
When I leave the hotel the porter stands beside the revolving door, primed to greet me, like a talking fork.
— Joseph Roth
Money can be translated into the beauty of living.
— Sylvia Porter
No. It's bad for me. Cole Porter wrote the words and the music. This knowledge that you're going mad for me.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.
— W. Arthur Porter
Men are the product of their historical experience, limited in their choices by who and where they are in history.
— Glenn Porter
In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception
— Gene Stratton-Porter
National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.
— Jane Porter
I tried to get a job in a freak show," he [Gregor] went on, "but they said I was overqualified. So I became the porter at Groosham Grange.
— Anthony Horowitz
TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
— Gail Porter
Turn her loose out of doors; give her good books, and leave her alone. You won't be disappointed in the woman who evolves.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.
— Michael Porter
When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.
— Jane Porter
I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
I want to do work that means something to me so that when I go to work at the theater eight times a week, I want to be there.
— Billy Porter
Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.
— Katherine Anne Porter
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
How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.
— Jane Porter
But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.
— Katherine Anne Porter
I always said if I played a drag queen, I'd want to create a template with the realness they talk about in 'Paris Is Burning.'
— Billy Porter
[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.
— Katherine Anne Porter
The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.
— Fairfield Porter
Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.
— Jane Porter
Chris Porter scored his first league goal last week, and he's done the same this week.
— Jeff Stelling
Every age gets the lunatics it deserves.
— Roy Porter
For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.
— Billy Porter
The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.
— Eleanor Porter
Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.
— Archer John Porter Martin
Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.
— Janet Street-Porter
Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.
— Sylvia Porter
It's a matter of growth, of deepening, and an ever growing surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts
— J.S. Porter
That spring I decided if school didn't stop pretty soon, I'd run away again, and I didn't in the least care what they did to me.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
It is my conviction that when events are forgotten, buried in the cellar of the page, they are no longer even history.
— Katherine Ann Porter
Mexican writer and diplomat, "Pasado en claro" ("A Draft of Shadows") You learn something the day you die. You learn how to die.
— Katherine Anne Porter
demanded to know. "You know she's just using the Kennedy name for publicity. She's just a social climber. At
— Darwin Porter
It is such a relief to be told the truth.
— Katherine Anne Porter
Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.
— Eleanor Porter
Ance a man-child has beaten his way to life under the heart of a woman, she is mither to all men, for the hearts of mithers are everywhere the same.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
Have a good nap, did you?" said the porter. "Yes," said Billy. "Man," said the porter, "you sure had a hard-on.
— Kurt Vonnegut
First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do ...
— Katherine Anne Porter
Pretend-dating Gray Porter is going to be like pretend-dating a rainbow. Everyone looks at him all the time.
— Anne Eliot
In the New World, happiness is enforced.
— Peter Porter
All the world loves a clown.
— Cole Porter
The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
The chili-rubbed rib-eye at Porter House New York is one of the best steaks that I've eaten anywhere in the world.
— Martin Bashir
The thought of him was a smoky cloud from hell that moved and crept in her head.
— Katherine Anne Porter
The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
— Michael Porter
In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles ...
— Jane Porter
Friends are plenty when the purse is full.
— Gene Stratton-Porter
The right use of color can make any composition work.
— Fairfield Porter
[From Pale Horse, Pale Rider]
The road to death is a long march beset with all evils. . . — Katherine Anne Porter
The road to death is a long march beset with all evils. . . — Katherine Anne Porter
I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.
— Janet Street-Porter
narrative is the principal way in which our species organizes its understanding of time.
— H. Porter Abbott
One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
— Katherine Anne Porter
There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.
— Eleanor Porter
Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.
— Katherine Anne Porter
Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It's not organized around the needs of the patient.
— Michael Porter
The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.
— Cole Porter
We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.
— Katherine Anne Porter
Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about - no matter what 'twas
— Eleanor Porter
The past is never where you think you left it.
— Katherine Anne Porter
After a silence, because he knew me well, he said, Not all wounds are the bleeding kind.
— Dean Koontz
The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
— Michael Porter