Pitted Cherries Quotes & Sayings

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making. — G-Eazy

Universities face a constant struggle to maintain their integrity, and their fundamental social role in a healthy society, in the face of external pressures. The problems are heightened with the expansion of private power in every domain, in the course of the state-corporate social engineering projects of the past several decades. . . . To defend their integrity and proper commitments is an honorable and difficult task in itself, but our sights should be set higher than that. Particularly in the societies that are more privileged, many choices are available, including fundamental institutional change, if that is the right way to proceed, and surely including scholarship that contributes to, and draws from, the never-ending popular struggles for freedom and justice. 5 Higher education is under attack not because it is failing, but because it is a potentially democratic public sphere. — Noam Chomsky

I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon. — Jules Verne

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. — Anton Chekhov

Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert. — John F. Kerry

...when the pain subsides the grief remains. — Jonathan Brett Kennedy

My father was a journalist. — Daniel Snyder

Your Why Power will Ignite your Willpower to help you implement Habits that will enable you to Pursue Your Purpose with PASSION! — Tom Cunningham

Every time Jimmy Scott sings, it's the same but slightly different. I don't know how he does that or where he gets that from. I think it's instinct. Nothing he does is by chance; he's in complete control of what he's doing. He's just beautiful and unique. — Sufjan Stevens

Our hands, or minds, our feet hold more intelligence. With this I have no quarrel.
But, what about virtue? — Mary Oliver

The first thing I check once I'm inside a story is the emotional weather. Is there a storm coming? What's the temperature, and how powerful are the winds? The difference between walking on water and sliding one's ass across slick ice is only a matter of degree. — Bob Thurber

Rules for today: 1) Pray 2) Laugh 3) Repeat. The only reason to take this life too seriously is if it's your only one. — Mark Hart

My professor, he reminded us of Kant: to think by oneself, to think in accordance with oneself. Today they say that's logocentric, not politically correct. Streams must flow in the right direction so that they may converge. Why all this cultural bustling? Just to assure oneself that everyone is speaking of the same thing. Of what? Of Otherness. — Jean-Francois Lyotard