Piercings Quotes

• Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

  Bill Moyers

  Creativity, Creative, Mundane

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• I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

  Kathy Acker

  Female, Half, Body

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• The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Lying, Slave, Poet

  Yehudi Menuhin (1986). “Life class: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist”, Vintage

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• We must buy jewelry; it identifies us with our tribe, just as body piercing identifies those of a different tribe.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Different

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• When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

  Augusten Burroughs

  New York, Cities, People

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• Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?

  Clint Eastwood

  Kids, Tongue, Kind

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• For the soul of a person to be inflamed with passion for the living God, that person's mind must first be informed about the character and will of God. There can be nothing in the heart that is not first in the mind. Though it is possible to have theology on the head without its piercing the soul, it cannot pierce the soul without first being grasped by the mind.

  R. C. Sproul

  Passion, Heart, Character

  R.C. Sproul (2017). “The R.C. Sproul Collection Volume 2: Essential Truths of the Christian Faith / Now, That's a Good Question!”, p.26, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

  Eleanor Clark

  Love Life, Oysters, Enjoy

  1964 The Oysters of Locmariaquer, ch.1.

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• Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!

  Iris Murdoch

  Sadness, Unhappiness, Midst

  Iris Murdoch (2008). “A Word Child”, p.3, Random House

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• Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at Princeton and a relationship with Blaine - "You are the absolute love of my life," he'd written in her last birthday card - and yet there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Morning, Unique, Love Of My Life

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.12, Anchor

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• If I was having a bad day, or if something was really getting me down -- boy troubles, whatever -- I wanted to go out and get a new piercing. It was definitely a release for me. Something that made me feel a little more strong or empowered. Because it was something that had to do with me and no one else.

  Christina Aguilera

  Strong, Bad Day, Boys

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• Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Home, Dark

  Charles Dickens “Oliver Twist”, Lulu.com

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• I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.

  Anais Nin

  Love You, Joy, Want

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• He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Years, Waiting

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.82, Cambridge University Press

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• Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all the time, but did anybody actually know? Sometimes I'd pictured it like a pilot light burning inside a person--a drop of fire from the invisible inferno people called God. Or a squashy substance, like a piece of clay or dental mold, which collected the sum of a person's experiences--a million indentations of happiness, desperation, fear, all the small piercings of beauty we've ever known.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Fire, Light, People

  Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.132, Penguin

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• I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.

  Noomi Rapace

  Teenager, Hair, Blonde

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• Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Night, Giving

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, chorus, l. 1

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• Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

  Bill Moyers

  Creativity, Scientist, Mundane

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• It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do not be deterred by headaches. First of all, this would be proof of your lack of stamina. And then, migraines, piercing pain and sudden stabs at the temples are more likely the effects of syphilis than of hard work.

  Louis Aragon

  Pain, Reading, Hard Work

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• If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.

  Eleanor Clark

  Weed, Food, Love Life

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• Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

  David Sheff

  Children, Joy, Sublime

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one without the attitude, without the facade[...]

  Simone Elkeles

  Attitude, Real, Eye

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.

  Edward Abbey

  Rain, Fire, Light

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.13, University of Arizona Press

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• A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.

  A. O. Scott

  Loyalty, Honesty, Drama

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• The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Fire, Errors, Laughing

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.215, Vintage

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