Pil'd Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

H.R. Willaston

#5. 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

#6. Don't be mad cuz I'm doing me better than you doing you.

Donald Glover

#7. 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

#8. One of the most influential women of the 20th century? Well, that may be overdoing it. When one thinks of really influential women, my mind turns to Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, ... some of the true political leaders in their own right.

William A. Rusher

#9. Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.

Rumi

#10. To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

Robert A. Heinlein

#11. All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

Martha Graham

#12. Skilled verse is the work of a profound skeptic.

Paul Valery

#13. Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.

Peter Cosgrove

#14. Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door.
She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side.
Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair
My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.

Rumi

#15. The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires.

Rupert Murdoch

#16. He sucked the nectar from her heart like a famished butterfly.

Ellen Hopkins

#17. Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.

Siri Hustvedt