Carrier Pigeons Quotes

#1. in 2001, one Norwegian enthusiast even implemented Internet Protocol with a set of carrier pigeons. (Observers reported a disappointing 56 percent packet loss rate: rephrased in English, five out of the nine pigeons appeared to have wandered off, or have been eaten.)

Tung-Hui Hu

#2. It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

George Eliot

#3. One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.

Herbie Hancock

#4. For many of us, especially women, the gap between what we want or need and what our society expects of us is wide indeed, and we spend out lives trying to negotiate it. Trying to balance work and family, responsibilities and desires, all that stuff. It is not easy.

Lee Smith

#5. Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.

L.M. Montgomery

#6. [Jesus] was born and baptized that by his suffering he might purify the water.

Ignatius Of Antioch

#7. Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Dick Gregory

#8. It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

Moliere

#9. I think I will be the most dressed [contestant and have] the most modest outfits for sure because that's who I am,

Bristol Palin

#10. Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

Nicole Scherzinger

#11. Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

Olivier Martinez

#12. Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

Isaac Watts

#13. And he, he himself ... the Grinch ... carved the roast-beast!

Dr. Seuss

#14. What is the top requirement for a second baseman? A fine shortstop. I am fortunate in having the greatest shortstop in baseball, Luis Aparicio.

Nellie Fox

#15. Jesus. Do you still dream? Like, at night?

Leslie Stein

#16. The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

Don DeLillo