Top 48 Pier One Quotes
#1. If you get made fun of working at Pier One Imports, you can't pelt them with poop.
Doug Stanhope
#2. She wasn't the sort of catch one could take home and show off to people; she was the sort of catch that drags the angler off the end of the pier and pulls him out to sea before tearing him to pieces as he's drowning. He shouldn't have been fishing at all, not when he was so ill-equipped.
Nick Hornby
#3. Every day my anxiety is higher,
every day the grief more mortal.
Today more than yesterday terror exalts me ...
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#4. It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year;
The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier.
The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro,
A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane.
Autumn leaves and rain,
The passion of the gale.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#5. [Michael Bitbol] asked us to ponder whether the purpose of science is to provide answers about what things are in themselves, or if science is only our most advanced way of developing a pragmatic, conventional knowledge of phenomena sufficient to guide us in our actions.
Pier Luigi Luisi
#6. The wind was picking up off the ocean now and the whole coastal scene had a bleak, abandoned look, as though Maine in November really belonged to the ragged gulls who wheeled over the sun-worn pier, and the humans had just gotten the news and taken a powder.
Jonathan Lethem
#7. What was that?" I ask as I blow through.
"You were behind schedules," she says, panting but keeping pace next to me as we sprint down the pier. "Figured you could use some help, so I blew the transformer.
Tera Lynn Childs
#8. What would you think if I told you that, yes, your bad choices and decisions have had a part in your ending up under this pier, but beyond that, under this pier is exactly where you should be in order for a future to occur that you can't even imagine at this point?
Andy Andrews
#10. Arithmetic arithmetock
Turn the hands back on the clock
How does the ocean rock the boat?
How did the razor find my throat?
The only strings that hold me here
Are tangled up around the pier.
Tom Waits
#12. I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#13. When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil ...
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#16. You need to decide if you want to be on the ferry when it sets off or if you are happier back on the sturdy pier.
Jessica Brockmole
#17. A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
#18. A life spent at the edge of the pier is a life full of regret, a life full of fear.
Ryan Lilly
#19. Looking at oneself in a mirror is a self-canceling phenomenon. Eyes looking into eyes make a hole which spreads out and renders one invisible. I had seen more of myself in that single glimpse of a ghostly image in the pier mirror, not knowing it was I.
Walker Percy
#20. Ohls showed the motor-cycle officer his badge and we went out on the pier, into a loud fish smell which one night's hard rain hadn't even dented.
Raymond Chandler
#21. In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm.
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
#22. I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#23. We walked where the ancient pier juts into the sea.
Stood on the rim of the pool, by the circle
of black boulders. No one saw we were there
and everyone who had ever been there
stood silently in air.
Where else do we ever have to go, and why?
Naomi Shihab Nye
#24. A strategist is one who helps people relax into their creative skills. People won't rally unless an idea is beautiful ... Everyone is hanging on every word ... Amazing.
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
#25. And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#26. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#27. A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
#28. Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.
Richard Attenborough
#29. If I then discovered a cancer in myself and died, I'd consider it a victory of that reality of things.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#31. The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#32. I reiterate that the rigor and credibility brought to the world by Monti's government are for us a point of no return.
Pier Luigi Bersani
#33. True creative cities produce the legacy of an idea that does what funding cannot do: to foster..
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
#34. Behold those times re-created by
the brutal power of sunlit images,
the light of life's tragedy.
The walls of the trial, the field
of the firing squad; and the distant
ghost of Rome's suburbs in a ring,
gleaming white in naked light.
Gunshots: our death, our survival.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#37. But whatever happened, I knew I'd always have this summer, and that first night on the pier under the stars, with the waves surging around us, when we both glowed. And armed with that, I was not afraid. This summer, and this life, had been a privilege. I was sure of that.
Seth King
#38. As each person's sandal hits the pier, a sociolinguistic transformation from cruiser to tourist is effected.
David Foster Wallace
#40. Of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms.
Walt Whitman
#42. A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.
Julian Barnes
#43. When civic leaders are in love with their cities they are listened to; they are credible.
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
#44. Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses.
John Goddard
#45. [Rylie:] I was thinking about that short you directed
The Pier. I wondered if you had a video or a reel of it somewhere.
[Finn:] You want to see my short. Why?
[Rylie:] Color me curious.
Jessica Lave
#46. The true measure of a city is its soul. This is the restless energy that doesn't wait for political leadership.
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
#47. People tend to read books about a guy who goes back in time or a guy who is living under a pier.
Andy Andrews
#48. To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living but existing
Pier Giorgio Frassati
