Pericanalicular Quotes & Sayings

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s. — Lionel Hampton

I have never been proud of America my entire adult life. — Michelle Obama

She's familiar. My only familiar thing in a world of inconsistency and confusion. — Colleen Hoover

Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those of foragers. Hunter-gatherers spent their time in more stimulating and varied ways, and were less in danger of starvation and disease. The Agricultural Revolution certainly enlarged the sum total of food at the disposal of humankind, but the extra food did not translate into a better diet or more leisure. Rather, it translated into population explosions and pampered elites. The average farmer worked harder than the average forager, and got a worse diet in return. The Agricultural Revolution was history's biggest fraud. — Yuval Noah Harari

My cane is now of me. I want it by my side. And I always will, even if one strange day I no longer need its support. — Joshua Prager

We broke up in eighth grade when Tara-Mae Forrester offered to let me touch her boobs. And I did. — Emma Chase

Essentially Rumsfeld wins, Cheney wins, and the CIA and State Department lose. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have more centralized control over intelligence, analysis, and operations than ever before. And the way they interpret the law, if the President authorizes an intelligence mission to be run covertly by the Pentagon, they don't have to tell anybody, including Congress, about it because the President is the commander in chief. — Seymour Hersh

I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it ... I [want] to have those new conversations, musically and otherwise. — James Mercer