Potshots Quotes

#1. I look to the skies
and expect artificial passenger pigeons,
blackening the light,
people taking potshots for kicks
imagining one day they will be extinct.

Carl-John X. Veraja

#2. I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship ...

John Geddes

#3. These groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after

Alexandre Dumas

#4. Love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!
and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?

Allen Ginsberg

#6. History has long had a wall up between the kitchen and the dining room. Front of house, back of house - one group always wielded more power and influence.

Daniel Humm

#7. Now filet mignon come with every meal. I swear to God that I'm so high, Feel like i am going up a hill.

Wiz Khalifa

#8. I guess it's also not a good thing when you start relating yourself to a late nineteenth century nut bag who shot himself, but hey, you've got to relate to something if you ever want to feel relevant.

Molli Fields

#9. An odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream.

A.S. Byatt

#10. Clearly his inner teenage girl was trying to claw her way to the surface.

Piper Vaughn

#11. A nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures.

Orhan Pamuk

#12. But they know. They all know. And what am I against so many ... ?

Sylvia Plath

#13. For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

Ashley Montagu