Quotes & Sayings About Pustak

When [Allen] Ginsberg and I founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics - that was 1974 - we referred to it by a term used by Sufi thinker Hakim Bey, as "temporary autonomous zones." That for me sums up some of Whitman's sense of a community of likeminded people with a certain kind of adhesiveness and connection and sharing of this ethos. — Anne Waldman

52,000 here tonight, but it sounds like 50,000. — Bryon Butler

Why me?"
"Because you draw me. Because you are kind but not soft. Because when you touch me, the pain is bittersweet. Because you cradle a desperate secret to your bosom, like a viper in your arms, and don't let go of it even as it gnaws upon your very flesh. I want to pry that viper from your arms. To suckle upon your torn and bloody flesh. To take your pain within myself and make it mine. — Elizabeth Hoyt

He could see the flames in my hair, he knew my lips would scorch him. — Janet Fitch

Alas, my "fiddle playing" will not get me to Carnegie Hall - or even to a high school recital. Berkshire, on your behalf and mine, will send the Treasury $3.3 billion for tax on its 2003 income, a sum equaling 2½% of the total income tax paid by all U.S. corporations in fiscal 2003. — Warren Buffett

[French] Parents see it as their job to bring the child around to appreciating this [food]. They believe that just as they must teach a child how to sleep, how to wait, and how to say bonjour, they must teach her how to eat. — Pamela Druckerman

When you overcome a profound loss, or there's some catalyst in your life that shifts everything, if you're able to take it in stride and heal, it can make for much more three-dimensional and empathetic people. — Rose McIver

If you want the people to understand you, invite them to your life and let them see the world from your window! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Pure love, can be observed similar to white light flowing through a prism bringing forth its seven primary colours, like a rainbow. To deeply know and be love, like the rainbow colours, you have to experience all of its parts to become all of it.
- Denis J — Denis John George

At Harvard I learned most uncomfortably that facts are facts. In Italy I learned that facts are the way you look at them. — Sean O'Faolain

Graduate school introduces student to extensive knowledge search. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests. — Colin Quinn

He'd have done better if he had a hat, but then I suppose drifters can't be choosers. — Dan Wells