Pistek Piatunio Quotes & Sayings

I'd never heard of a holy man named after a llama. I'd never heard of a great, gaping vagina. And I didn't know a thing about the black boomerang of karma. all I knew for sure was this: I had been plunked into a strange, perfumed world that, as far as I could tell, seemed to be run entirely by women. — Beth Hoffman

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth. — Andres Segovia

What black men, women, children did in Albany at that time was heroic. They overcame a century of passivity, and they did it without the help of the national government. They learned that despite the Constitution, despite the promises, despite the political rhetoric of the government, whatever they accomplished in the future would have to come from them. — Howard Zinn

I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea. — Ted Lindsay

Ox Cart Man

In October of the year,
he counts potatoes dug from the brown field,
counting the seed, counting
the cellar's portion out,
and bags the rest on the cart's floor.

He packs wool sheared in April, honey
in combs, linen, leather
tanned from deerhide,
and vinegar in a barrel
hoped by hand at the forge's fire.

He walks by his ox's head, ten days
to Portsmouth Market, and sells potatoes,
and the bag that carried potatoes,
flaxseed, birch brooms, maple sugar, goose
feathers, yarn.

When the cart is empty he sells the cart.
When the cart is sold he sells the ox,
harness and yoke, and walks
home, his pockets heavy
with the year's coin for salt and taxes,

and at home by fire's light in November cold
stitches new harness
for next year's ox in the barn,
and carves the yoke, and saws planks
building the cart again. — Donald Hall

THE WORLD IS A STAGE AND EVERYONE IS AN ACTOR. — William Shakespeare

When men set out to kill and bully, they dress up. Suit of armor. Combat boots. Uniform. — Timothy Leary

The past is a jealous warrior. It pokes and prods for undivided attention when it is the present which needs the most nourishment. — Alexia Purdy

Sometimes you're up against everybody in the whole world - even your friends and family are saying, "You need a single." You feel sometimes incredibly alone. — Neil Peart

I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world. — Anna Meredith

They may not become extinct immediately, but being pushed out of decaying or destroyed habitats eventually takes its toll. The concept is known as extinction debt, the delay between the stress on species and the final dwindling of the last survivors until the organisms disappear and are never seen again. — Craig Childs

Measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. Warren Buffet — Ralph Waldo Emerson