"I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed."

-- Matthew Shipp

#People Quotes #Pigeons Quotes #Able Quotes

“We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.”
“I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.”

Source : "House Panel Says DeLay Gripe Was Exaggerated", www.foxnews.com. November 19, 2004.
“If you make one mistake, it can result in vasectomy.”
“It is urgent to prevent new U.S. aggression. The time is now for the world to say 'no' to U.S. threats of air attack against Iran, and to the very notion of a nuclear first-use 'option' by America or any other nation.”
“...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world.”
“The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.”
“The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe.”
“Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.”

Source : Karl Shapiro (1964). “the Bourgeois Poet”

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