Panpipes Bamboo Quotes & Sayings

We are human beings, not Asiatics and Americans, Russians and Germans, communists and capitalists. We all have the same human problems. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Poets light but Lamps-
Themselves-go out- — Emily Dickinson

I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it. — Ken Follett

Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems. — Benjamin Franklin

Down in the city are the nice houses and the so-so houses and the lovers making out in dark yards and the babies crying for their moms, and I wonder if, other than Jesus, has this ever happened before. Maybe it happens all the time. Maybe there's angry dead all over, hiding in rooms, covered with blankets, bossing around their scared, embarrassed relatives. Because how would we know? — George Saunders

When he opens the door, I step in and an army of memories comes at me from all sides. — Lisa Schroeder

What drives me is what I'm putting out into the world, and I like to make films that people can connect to, or they can escape in. — Cameron Diaz

When women with class power opportunistically use a feminist platform while undermining feminist politics that helps keep in place a patriarchal system that will ultimately re-subordinate them, they do not just betray feminism; they betray themselves. — Bell Hooks

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there. — Oscar Wilde

I want to study the secrets tucked between his elbows and the whispers caught behind his knees. I want to follow the lines of his silhouette with my eyes and the tips of my fingers. I want to trace rivers and valleys along the curved muscles of his body. — Tahereh Mafi

What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education. — Marshall McLuhan

As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas. — Harvey Pekar

occasionally or alternately I should not complain, — Frederick Lewis Maitland

We are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong. — George Eliot

The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd. — Mason Cooley