Pitchforks Quotes

• I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday. Instead of the smooth, beautiful, sweet, still, silk-velvet-lipped preaching, you should have sermons like peals of thunder, and perhaps we then can get the scales from our eyes.

  Brigham Young

  Beautiful, Sweet, Rain

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.222

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• If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.

  Horace

  Nature, Way, Ifs

  Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

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• You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

  Horace

  Running, Nature, Romance

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 10, l. 24

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• She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.

  Jonathan Swift

  Sarcastic, Clothes, Apparel

  'Polite Conversation' (1738) dialogue 1

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• You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.

  Al Yankovic

  Bagels, Faces, Staples

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• I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness." Tessa looked at will. "What about you? What do you believe? "Pulvis et umbra sumus," said Will, not looking at her as he spoke. "I believe we are dust and shadows. What else is there?

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Dust, People

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• If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Mother, Doors, Balance

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• A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

  Haniel Long

  Men, Listening, Important

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

  Horace

  Nature, Science, Foolish

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• Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?" "Yep." "Is he carrying the moon on his pitchfork?" "Nope it's a pie.

  Ilona Andrews

  Moon, Pie, Lions

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• Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Taken, Champion, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.

  Jakob Dylan

  Names, Evil, Doe

  Song: Evil Is Alive And Well, Album: Seeing Things

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• Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

  Horace

  Nature, Nevertheless

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• One can't save and then pitchfork souls into heaven... Souls are more or less securely fastened to bodies... And as you can't get the souls out and deal with them separately, you have to take them both together.

  Amy Carmichael

  Heaven, Soul, Together

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• Hell came right along with God, hand in hand. The stink of sulfur swirled in the air of the church, fire burned in the aisles, and brimstone rained out of the rafters. From the evangelist's oven mouth spewed images of a place with pitchforks, and devils, and lakes of fire that burned forever. God had fixed a place like that because he loved us so much.

  Harry Crews

  Fire, Lakes, Air

  Harry Crews (1993). “Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• [on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dog, Rain, School

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• Streets teemed with hell's wretched souls. New dead with their gadgets and old dead from antiquity. Demons roamed the avenues and alleyways, tormenting hapless damned at random with branding irons, flaming pitchforks, and razor-wire whips. -From the story Remember, Remember, Hell in November, in the anthology, Lawyers in Hell.

  Larry Atchley Jr.

  Iron, Soul, Wire

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• Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a few hints, but we might as well abandon our spades and pitchforks as pretend that nature is everything and art nothing.

  Shirley Hibberd

  Art, Nature, Garden

  James Shirley Hibberd (1871). “The amateur's flower garden”, p.223

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• I think when I dropped The Eulogy is when it became more [about] feedback because that's when Pitchfork wanted to review it and things like that.

  Cakes da killa

  Thinking, Eulogy, Feedback

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Some devil with a pitchfork keep talkin' like he know me. I stood before an angel as he told me bout the glory.

  Mac Miller

  Angel, Devil, Glory

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• Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
  [Fr., Coups de fourches ni d'etriveres,
  Ne lui font changer de manieres.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Change, Blow, Fonts

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• Donald Trump is using an age-old trick of right wing populism, much like George Wallace, much like Joe McCarthy, Pitchfork Ben Tillman who in the 1880s and `90s was a rabid hateful racists who whipped up hate and hysteria for his own political benefit.

  Keith Ellison

  Hate, Wings, Hysteria

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• What if you went to Hell, and it was exactly what you thought it would be: just a cave with fire? And the devil really was this idiot in a red leotard with a pitchfork?

  Dana Gould

  Fire, What If, Devil

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• When I was developing St. Lucia - around 2008, 2009, at the peak of Pitchfork culture - what was considered cool was being as alienating to your audience as possible.

  St. Lucia

  Culture, Audience, Developing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Because you're a woman, the music industry puts you in another corner. I want to be fighting with the men. I want to be amongst the men, topless, throwing things onstage.
  Pitchfork: Whe

  Lykke Li

  Fighting, Men, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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