Pikantnych Quotes & Sayings

I love the sound of one hand clapping. — Sienna McQuillen

One of the findings that really interests me is that, although we think we ACT because of the way we FEEL, we often FEEL because of the way we ACT. So an almost uncanny way to change your feelings is to act the way you WISH you felt. — Gretchen Rubin

Souls do not have calendars or clocks, nor do they understand the notion of time or distance. They only know it feels right to be with one another. — Lang Leav

Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker. Today the CEO of Wal-Mart earns nine hundred times the wages of his average employee. Indeed, the wealth of the Wal-Mart founder's family in 2005 was estimated at about the same ($90 billion) as that of the bottom 40% of the US population: 120 million people. — Tony Judt

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills. — Jeremy Lin

The Greeks were so committed to ideas as supernatural forces that they created an entire group of goddesses (not one but nine) to represent creative power; the opening lines of both The Iliad and The Odyssey begin with calls to them. These nine goddesses, or muses, were the recipients of prayers from writers, engineers, and musicians. Even the great minds of the time, like Socrates and Plato, built shrines and visited temples dedicated to their particular muse (or muses, for those who hedged their bets). Right now, under our very secular noses, we honor these beliefs in our language, as the etymology of words like museum ("place of the muses") and music ("art of the muses") come from the Greek heritage of ideas as superhuman forces. — Scott Berkun

To miss you is the weight of apples, fallen
among the bent grasses at night, an organ
whose machinery is pulp. — Adam Dickinson

I was the weirdest kid: I wanted to see the police file - in grade school! I was convinced I could crack the case if I just had that file. — Alafair Burke

I was trying to disturb the war. — Joan Baez

My girlfriend is a great support, and I've got a big circle of mates who keep my feet on the ground. — Rob James-Collier