Pig Pens Quotes & Sayings

I wait, washed, brushed, fed, like a prize pig. Sometime in the eighties they invented pig balls, for pigs who were being fattened in pens. Pig balls were large colored balls; the pigs rolled them around with their snouts. The pig marketers said this improved their muscle tone; the pigs were curious, they liked having something to think about. I read about that in Introduction to Psychology; that, and the chapter on caged rats who'd give themselves electric shocks for something to do. And the one on the pigeons trained to peck a button that made a grain of corn appear. Three groups of them: the first one got one grain per peck, the second one grain every other peck, the third was random. When the man in charge cut off the grain, the first group gave up quite soon, the second group a little later. The third group never gave up. They'd peck themselves to death, rather than quit. Who knew what worked?
I wish I had a pig ball. — Margaret Atwood

Goals are dreams that come true. — Laura E. Sinclair

Being human makes us one. Being uniquely ourselves makes us individual. - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins — Nancy S. Mure

Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled after two or three types, and those the least like types of good acting. The fault generally lies less in the bad imitation of a good model, than in the successful imitation of a bad model. — George Henry Lewes

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do
or don't do. — Simone De Beauvoir

Yet how often is it that we are rescued by a stranger, if ever at all? And how is it that our lives can become drained of the possibility of forgiveness and kindness - so drained that even one small act of mercy becomes a potent lifelong memory? How do our lives reach these points? — Douglas Coupland

I have seen people wanting to devote their time & energy to nation building. All they need is an opportunity. 'MyGov' is that opportunity! — Narendra Modi

Women are the volatile vote at the end-particularly independent, non-college-educated married women. — Celinda Lake

She lived because she had been willing to die, and her conviction in herself never wavered. — V. Lakshman

She thought she mattered little to him, but in this she was mistaken, as the musician was quite smitten, and not nearly so unattached to her as she supposed, but pride, and also fear, and also style, kept him from asking more of her than she offered up. — Mohsin Hamid

Listen before you draw your battle lines, lest you alienate your allies. — Kim Harrison