Pieczynski Iowa Quotes & Sayings

Nada Surf and Harvey Danger are good bands. I think they've just stayed true to why they play music in the first place, it's just because they love doing it and they love each other and that's the impetus for doing it, not trying to keep singles on the radio and on MTV. — Ben Gibbard

We have seen that there are two forms of stimulus which are particularly prone to evoke migrainous reactions in predisposed individuals: inordinate excitations or arousals, and inordinate inhibitions or slumps. Within certain "allowable" limits (which vary greatly from person to person), the nervous system maintains itself in a region of equilibrium, homeostatically, by means of continuous, minor, insensible adjustments; beyond these limits, it may be forced to react by sudden, major, symptomatic adjustments. — Oliver Sacks

If you want to walk fast, walk alone. But if you want to walk far, walk together — Ratan Tata

In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union was strategically more threatening. — Henry A. Kissinger

In Plato's Republic, Socrates expresses great fear about democracy because it is, in his mind, synonymous with freedom. The result is tyranny. But modern times have brought us a different understanding of democracy as an ideal. It is how to give the appearance of democracy yet deny it in practice, ensuring that democracy in its false form gives consent by the people to a small group, the oligarchs. This is accomplished through a combination of the people's silence and a rigged system that changes a working democracy of public participation and deliberation to a charade. — Noam Chomsky

Telling a story that is consistent with everything that happened before, — Michael Lewis

I lift up my heart in gratitude for these beautiful yearly bridges that bind us together in love. — Edward M Hays

I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable. — Michael Schenker

But the only game she wanted to play was Kidnapper, where she tied me up and left me in my own tree house for about twelve hours, until Dad climbed up and got me down. Why hadn't I at least called for help? I had. But no one had heard me. Probably because of the gag in my mouth. — Douglas Rees

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom. — Nancy Pearcey

'Good wine needs no bush', and if there were need to urge the reading of history it would be proof that history is too dull and unattractive to be read. — Albert Bushnell Hart