Piciuki Quotes & Sayings

I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. — Terry Teachout

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball. — Larry Bird

A number of governments, such as India and the Philippines, routinely opposed certain initiatives, preferring to elevate either solidarity among developing countries (and their collective desire to fend off criticism as unacceptable intervention) or the principle of state sovereignty over the protection of human beings. — Thomas G. Weiss

In my country, families are raised as though they are one. Although I am from the Dinka tribe, my parents didn't raise us as the Dinka tribe. They raised us as the Wek family, in the way they believed their children should grow up. So when you leave, the first thing you think is the ones you left behind. It's natural to help them in any way you can. I found a way to support myself rather than asking my Mum to give me money. I would work before school and send money back to pay for their rent and food. — Alek Wek

Slow is not the same as deficient. It's just slow. A glacier is slow too, but it gets there, and nothing stops it. — Kim Stanley Robinson

I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work. — Donald McKay

Mind emerges from matter and life at an empirical level, but at a transcendental level every form or structure is necessarily also a form or structure disclosed by consciousness. With this reversal one passes from the natural attitude of the scientist to the transcendental phenomenological attitude (which, according to phenomenology, is the properly philosophical attitude). — Evan Thompson