Percipient Vegetable Quotes & Sayings

When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them. — Pat Metheny

With ancient history writers most immediately in view, the author indicates tendency to look to the virtues and vices of individuals when seeking causes. — Peter Heather

Trouble fell like rain from the heavens, and we just couldn't get enough of it. We went around picking up the stuff and cramming our pockets full of it. Even now I can't figure out why we persisted in doing that. Maybe we mistook it for something else. — Haruki Murakami

There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way. — Cate Blanchett

A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in mind what it is they are buying and if it is really worth it to them. — Laura Vandervoort

Well, you know, I don't really want to trade next year. I certainly enjoyed having the jacket put on me rather than putting it on. — Phil Mickelson

Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change. — Paul Watson

I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more ... though I know that IS the noblest ambition ... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me ... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born. — L.M. Montgomery

We are sent into the world to live to the full everything that awakens within us and everything that comes toward us. — John O'Donohue

The Executive is charged officially in the Departments under it with the disbursement of the public money, and is responsible for the faithful application of it to the purposes for which it is raised. The Legislature is the watchful guardian over the public purse. It is its duty to see that the disbursement has been honestly made. — James Monroe

We need a new cosmology. New gods. New sacraments. Another drink. — Patti Smith

Let the people decide through the marketplace mechanism what they wish to see and hear. Why is there this national obsession to tamper with this box of transistors and tubes when we don't do the same for Time magazine? — Mark S. Fowler

If the other side is better, no matter how the bridge is dangerous, cross to the other side! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life outside is changing our world. We are losing our culture, loosing our roots. How can a living thing grow if its roots are cut? — Sherry Shahan

In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life ... Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people. — Leo Tolstoy