Piwouli Quotes & Sayings

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. — Henry Rollins

My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work. — Bill Russell

It's easy to be quick on the draw when no one has got real bullets. — Timothy Olyphant

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community. — Sandra Day O'Connor

The lesbian is a threatening reality for reality. — Nicole Brossard

No matter what I study, I can see patterns. I see the gestalt, the melody within the notes, in everything: mathematics and science, art and music, psychology and sociology. As I read the texts, I can think only that the authors are plodding along from one point to the next, groping for connections that they can't see. They're like a crowd of people unable to read music, peering at the score for a Bach sonata, trying to explain how one note leads to another. As glorious as these patterns are, they also whet my appetite for more. There are other patterns waiting to be discovered, gestalts of another scale entirely. With respect to those, I'm blind myself; all my sonatas are just isolated data points by comparison. I have no idea what form such gestalts might assume, but that'll come in time. I want to find them, and comprehend them. I want this more than anything I've ever wanted before. The — Ted Chiang

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being. — Jhumpa Lahiri

...Thought lengths it, pulls
an invisible world through
a needle's eye
one detail at a time,

... — Jennifer Grotz

...she basked gratefully in the warmth of her husband's love — Jun'ichiro Tanizaki