Pil Quotes

#1. CAMILLO Swear his thought over By each particular star in heaven and By all their influences, you may as well Forbid the sea for to obey the moon As, or by oath remove, or counsel shake The fabric of his folly, whose foundation Is pil'd upon his faith, and will continue The standing of his body.

William Shakespeare

#2. Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.

Alexander Pope

#3. I've helped launch 49 careers - those that have been in PiL. To me, they are my babies; whatever they get up to, they know I love them. They've been living in my pockets, and they should show more gratitude.

John Lydon

#4. With their big hit, PiL had reached a whole new generation of fans, and the gig had sold out very fast. But right down at the front were a crowd of about three to four hundred hardcore, old-school punks who had come creeping out of the squats of Camden and Shepherd's Bush to greet their hero. To

Simon Parkes

#5. wup-wup-wup" - Pil and Popo

H.R. Willaston

#6. Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.

John Lydon

#7. Many people nowadays have surnames that reveal their ancestors' fairy origins. Otherlander and Fairchild are two.

Susanna Clarke

#8. You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

Paul Robeson

#9. I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.

Bindi Irwin

#10. He would, in essence, be the person that he was assigned to embody as his cover - and he'd enjoy it. That was the trick, finding the pleasure in it.

Melissa Marr

#11. God save the King!"
Old Sapt's mouth wrinkled into a smile.
"God save 'em both!" he whispered.

Anthony Hope

#12. Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#13. It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

Margaret Mead

#14. Saying of the Prophet
The Tongue
A man slips with his tongue more than with his feet.

Idries Shah

#15. If I can't be sure of the actual events any more, I can at least be true to the impressions those facts left.

Julian Barnes

#16. The place where what someone needs and what she desires cross each other to become one.

Alice Hoffman