Purkiss Quotes & Sayings

While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences of the resulting increased pollution. The poor continue to live in greatest proximity to the sources of pollution, the infrastructure and machinery of industry. They work in the most polluted and physically dangerous workplaces. And these same individuals, living and working closest to the sources of environmental catastrophe, are also the ones most lacking decent health care. — James H. Cone

Christmas is a bold act of emboldening sacrifice and the most selfless gift ever granted the rebellious lot that we are. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The ride through the ancient walled town of Maienfeld, past vineyards and gently rolling fields and then up, up to where the snow still lay deep in the purple shadows underneath the fir trees, was an experience which called for silence. Glancing back, Heidi saw that Marta was no longer paying any attention to the chickens. She had lifted her face to the glorious mountains with their glistening peaks and awe-inspiring glaciers. Of what was she thinking? Did they thrill this little stranger as they had always thrilled her? Would she, too, learn to love them? — Charles Tritten

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes. — Freeman Dyson

I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well. — Tim Cook

You don't become a poet if you want to make any money. — Claudia Rankine

Listening to Beethoven also is sensuality, but when you have said 'sex' you have said all. A man who can give up sex can give up Beethoven. — Nanavira Thera

Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business plan — Steve Blank

Magic and its remedies deal with borders, markers, distinctions, insides and outsides, the limits of bodies, and also that which breaches these boundaries; bodily fluids, exchanges of objects through bodies and across thresholds, words that pass through the guard of the ear and enter the mind of the hearer. Women's bodies by virtue of their reproductive capacities, are seen as more open, more grotesque, less autonomous — Diane Purkiss

Pain engraves a deeper memory. — Anne Sexton

Fuck quotes, live your life. — Anonymous

Multiplying my age by 2 in my head/I'm a grandfather. Or Dead. — Fred Chappell

I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult. — Nanci Griffith

Pain marks you, but too deep to see. — Margaret Atwood

Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s', I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead — Henry Jenkins