Simon Pont Quotes

Technology, society, media: these are mutable forms, shape-shifting, forever re-purposing themselves. They sit within the wild, weird and wonderful frame of change. But there is a frame. ~ Simon Pont

Friday's "Working Lunch" is at The Avenue on St James's Street. It's a bit like eating in an art installation, a White-Out affair that tries for a So-Serious NYC feel, but is occupied by Daddy's Girls wearing pashmina's and too many Pin Stripes worn by too many people called Hugo. ~ Simon Pont

Happiness is our one ultimate end. Boil it right the way down, reduce all those motivational drivers, and sitting right there at the centre of our very human hearts, is our yearning to be happy. ~ Simon Pont

Simon gave her a startled look. 'I don't believe I have ever been condescended to by a woman before.' She shrugged. 'It was probably past time. ~ Julia Quinn

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact. ~ Herbert Simon

It had rained, she said, and I imagined the beads of small water on the windshield like a thousand eyes, or each drop a small imperfect reflection of a perfect moment. ~ Simon Van Booy

Human love, now even more than then, is widely tasked with achieving what once only divine love was thought capable of: to be our ultimate source of meaning and happiness, and of power over suffering and disappointment. ~ Simon May

If I had one dog, I'd want a hundred. If I had one kid, I'd probably want a hundred. I mean, it's just the way I am. ~ Simon Cowell

A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors. ~ Simon Newcomb

Love isn't about holding on. It's about letting go. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

In Japan, sometimes it's hard to know what you are looking at. ~ Simon McBurney

Without memory, time would be no use to mankind, ~ Simon Van Booy

And we all have the right to go to Hell in our own way. ~ Simon R. Green

Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow. ~ Simon Sinek

It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him. ~ Paul Simon

Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm and that it beats through a loving heart. ~ Scott Simon

Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking. ~ Simon Cowell

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense. ~ Pierre-Simon Laplace

I've known what it feels like, when your whole life hurts so much that you're ready to die, just for the pain to stop. A little less stubbornness, a little more resolve at certain moments, and I might have been one of these poor trapped souls... ~ Simon R. Green

There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different, and each offers very different value. ~ Simon Sinek

Tolerance and human rights require each other. ~ Simon Wiesenthal

But George turned Simon's assumptions on their head on a daily basis. As he was doing right at this moment, wiping away something that looked suspiciously like a tear.
"Are you ... Crying?" Simon asked, Incredulous.
"Of course not." George gave his eyes another furious wipe. "Well, in my defense," he added, sounding only slightly abashed, "death is a terrible thing."
"It's a dead rat," Simon pointed out. "A dead rat in Your Shoe, I might add. ~ Cassandra Clare

Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in the last couple of centuries did we invent industry. We are a species that has spent 99 per cent of its history as hunter-gatherers. We haven't had time for our unconscious minds and our unconscious needs to have changed. If you like, our souls have not changed, and this is true whether or not we believe that we have them. ~ Simon Barnes

Is that Ragnor Fell in a 'Ragnor Lives' T-shirt?"

"I wouldn't wear a 'Simon Lives' T-shirt to a battle," said Simon, who was standing within earshot. "Seems like asking for trouble. ~ Cassandra Clare

Okay, let me state right now that I am not a coward. I'm really not. But I'm not a fool, either. I think if you recognize that you are up against a force greater than your own, it is perfectly okay to run.
It's not okay to leave others behind, though. ~ Meg Cabot

One can say with reasonable confidence that the likelihood of something analogous to a human evolving is really pretty high. ~ Simon Conway Morris

"He passed over his fall, and appointed him first of the Apostles; wherefore He said: ' 'Simon, Simon,' etc. (in Ps. cxxix. 2). God allowed him to fall, because He meant to make him ruler over the whole world, that, remembering his own fall, he might forgive those who should slip in the future. And that what I have said is no guess, listen to Christ Himself saying: 'Simon, Simon, etc.'" ~ Saint John Chrysostom

Do you think you love that fellow?"
"I don't know." She closed her eyes, but the tears overflowed nevertheless. "All I know is that he opened a door into a whole new world I never even knew existed. I've stepped through that door, and I cant return.
( ... )
Its like being blind from birth and then one day suddenly being able to see. And not just see, but to witness the sun rising in all her glory across the azure sky. The dusky lavenders and blues lightening to pinks and reds, spreading across the horizon until the entire earth is lit. Until one has to blink and fall to ones knees in awe at the light.
( ... )
Even if one were to be made blind again in the next instant, one would ever after remember and know what was missed. What could be. ~ Elizabeth Hoyt

If you look at the great Westerns, and at Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology, they all contain elements in common: a harsh landscape; demons or outlaws trying to stop or kill the protagonist; and there are mythical legends at their core, innate in all cultures. ~ Simon Toyne

Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect. ~ Cassandra Clare

Greed has increasingly become a virtue among Wall Street bankers and corporate CEOs in the U.S. Nowhere else in the world do CEOs insist on receiving compensation as high compared to what their employees earn. ~ Simon Mainwaring

Every day there's something which makes me think 'I'd better ask Dad about that, I wonder what
Mother would say…' and then I remember, and the day seems a little colder. ~ Simon R. Green

Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind ourselves what being a refugee means? ~ Scott Simon

The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote ... and me! ~ Simon Bolivar

For me, philosophy is an activity of thought that is common to human beings. Human beings at their best. ~ Simon Critchley

Terrific," Simon said. "The psychos are on my side. ~ Harlan Coben

You know how it is, boss; you're out on the town with a few friends, drinking it up; you're young, you've got incendiaries ... shit happens. ~ Simon R. Green

Thank you," Simon said. "It's a joke, Isabelle. He's the Count. He likes counting. You know. 'What did the Count eat today, children? One chocolate chip cookie, two chocolate chip cookies, three chocolate chip cookies . . .'"

There was a rush of cold air as the door of the restaurant opened, letting in another customer. Isabelle shivered and reached for her black silk scarf. "It's not realistic."

"What would you prefer? 'What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers . . . ~ Cassandra Clare

Looking at that pain in her eyes, he felt a closeness with her that he had never experienced before. Like they shared something powerful and unspoken, something so deep and devastating, it bonded them together. He knew then, that if she didn't forgive him, he would never survive.

He was nothing without her. ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Everything looks worse in black and white. ~ Paul Simon

"Chloe isn't flirting with that guy," Simon said.
"Course not."
"I mean it. She's - "
I glanced back at him. "I'm not blind. She's only paying enough attention to him to be polite. He's the one flirting, which is bugging her and that's why I'm pissed off. She's trying to eat her fries and he's interrupting."
Simon chuckled. ~ Kelley Armstrong