Povinelli Grinding Quotes

#1. I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.

James Thurber

#2. We sat in the car
& the night dropped
down until the
only sounds were
the crickets &
the dance of our voices

& for a moment
the world became
small enough to
roll back & forth
between us.

Brian Andreas

#3. Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.

William Petersen

#4. Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense.

Lewis Thomas

#5. Often we find it easier to think our way around things rather than to feel our way through them:

Mark Nepo

#6. I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.

Craig Fairbrass

#7. I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.

Stanislaw Lem

#8. I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

Annette Funicello

#9. Been to yesterdays,
lived through todays.
Looking on toward tomorrows -
new characters, new plays.
The whys of life change,
and so do ways,
new scenery is built,
to fill an empty stage.

Lee Bennett Hopkins

#10. She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.

William Wordsworth

#11. Let men say what'er they will
Woman, woman, rules them still.

Isaac Bickerstaff

#12. The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

Tommy Smothers

#13. The problem is that it is difficult to translate.

Elfriede Jelinek