Soini Ploki Quotes & Sayings

You told me trees could speak
and the only reason one heard
silence in the forest
was that they had all been born knowing different languages.

That night I went into the forest
to bury dictionaries under roots,
so many books in so many tongues
as to insure speech.

and now this very moment,
the forest seems alive
with whispers and murmurs and rumblings of sound
wind-rushed into my ears.

I do not speak any language
that crosses the silence around me
but how soothing to know
that the yearning and grasping embodied
in trees' convoluted and startling shapes
is finally being fulfilled
in their wind shouts to each other.

Yet we who both speak English
and have since we were born
are moving ever farther apart
even as branch tips touch. — Carol Goodman

Man, who did you piss off today? Laundry and kitchen? Just take the damn drugs next time, Blanky, you might live longer. — Ashley Newell

the fact that the church draws so few of those that are despised, of those whom Jesus drew and to whom most expressly he came, gives ground for question as to how far the church is like her Lord. — George MacDonald

Empathizing with someone's 'no' protects us from taking it personally. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Computer assisted proofs are getting better and better and computers will play a bigger and bigger role in the future. — Enrico Bombieri

Joe," I whispered. "What's on your mind?"
Did booty call partners care what was on their booty call's mind? — Kristen Ashley

Knowledge work is not defined by quantity. Neither is knowledge work defined by its costs. Knowledge work is defined by its results. — Peter F. Drucker

It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess. — Max Weber

Carlos had gotten up and gone to play with the cat. I asked its name and Florence said Salmon, and Carlos thought it was funny for a cat to have a fish name. — Adriana Lisboa