Pk Famous Quotes & Sayings

The poor teachers! Trained in the traditional sciences, they were totally lost when trying to teach us about pigs or paddy fields. — Ji-li Jiang

Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand. — Amy-Jill Levine

To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow. — Sappho

She added, perhaps to herself, "You have to become old and ugly before anyone listens to you, and then they don't, because you're ugly and old. — Gregory Maguire

When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee. — Dean Koontz

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies. — Tony Curtis

Between takeoff and landing, we are each in suspended animation, a pause between chapters of our lives. When we stare out the window into the sun's glare, the landscape is only a flat projection with mountain ranges reduced to wrinkles in the continental skin. Oblivious to our passage overhead, other stories are unfolding beneath us. Blackberries ripen in the August sun, a woman packs a suitcase and hesitates at her doorway, a letter is opened and the most surprising photograph slides from between the pages. But we are moving too fast and we are too far away; all the stories escape us, except our own. When I turn away from the window, the stories recede into the two-dimensional map of green and brown below. Like a trout disappearing into the shade of an overhanging bank, leaving you staring at the flat surface of the water and wondering if you saw it at all. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now. — Arthur Balfour

She was like the moon - part of her was always hidden away. — Dia Reeves

Mairidh mo ghaol gu siorraidh, Ivy Calhoun," he says, and I already know that means "I'll love you forever. — Cindy Miles

The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less the defense and the less the defense the less the gain. — Thomas Wyatt

Education is a slow moving but powerful force — J. William Fulbright

Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed. — Ron Paul