Piconio Quotes & Sayings

I'm not questioning *my* sexuality as much as I'm questioning the strict definitions and boxes of all *sexualities* and why we care so much about other people's intimate business. — A.S. King

It's amazing, the look in your eyes, like you could save me, but you won't even try — Matt Nathanson

Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain! — Anthony Marais

We shall not always plant while others reap — Countee Cullen

A seed does not contribute much materially to the plant it grows into; the material comes from the soil, sunlight, water, and air. What the seed contributes is information. It has the same DNA as every other living entity, but when its genes begin to be expressed, it pulls from the environment what is needed to make a plant of just a particular kind. — Anonymous

I have the sort of temperament where I try not to over think things, I don't get flustered and I don't panic. I'm not overly neurotic. — Tom Bennett

Freedom, the first-born of science. — Thomas Jefferson

What person doesn't search online about their disease after they are diagnosed? — Howard Rheingold

Love is the light God place to be in my heart — Amadou Jarou Bah

had to stop myself from laughing. Who needs help taking a pill? "I — Kiera Cass

Congo, my country, has the largest forest in Africa, maybe the second-largest in the world. I was born in a forest area, and when I was growing up, I assisted my uncle, who was a poacher. That was good, because it grew my passion for protecting the forest and plants. — Corneille Ewango

If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is concerning missions. If there be anything about which we cannot tolerate lukewarmness,it is the matter of sending the gospel to a dying world. — Charles Spurgeon

Stephen Gray to devise an experiment that for sheer inventive panache outstripped anything that had come before. He clothed a boy in heavy garments until his body was thoroughly insulated but left the boy's hands, head, and feet naked. Using nonconducting silk strings, he hung the boy in the air, then touched an electrified glass tube to his naked foot, thus causing a spark to rocket from his nose. — Erik Larson

The pinpoint flame of anger and grief becomes a hot needle, then a hot knife.
It melts the frost that binds her lips.
It melts the sea in her eyesss.
(from uncorrected galley) — Katherine Catmull

But reductionism is not the right viewpoint for everything, and it certainly won't explain the relationship between the brain and the mind. This is because of a feature known as emergence. When you put together large numbers of pieces and parts, the whole can become something greater than the sum. None of the individual metal hunks of an airplane have the property of flight, but when they are attached together in the right way, the result takes to the air. A thin metal bar won't do you much good if you're trying to control a jaguar, but several of them in parallel have the property of containment. The concept of emergent properties means that something new can be introduced that is not inherent in any of the parts. — David Eagleman