Quotes with pie-in-the-sky

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  • Herman Melville Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Arna Bontemps Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
    Arna Bontemps
    American poet, novelist and librarian
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  • Boris Yeltsin Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Abdul Kalam Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason Mama was a natural cook. At harvest time, she would whip up a noontime dinner for the men in the field: fried chicken with milk gravy, ham, mashed potatoes, lima beans, field peas, corn, slaw, sliced tomatoes, fried apples, biscuits, and peach pie.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about ''character issues.'' Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Bill Gurley Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. The problem is those slices are negotiated every time a firm raises a new fund, so in between funds, which is most of the time, the partners are trying to outgun one another to make a stronger case for themselves.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Boyle Roche Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Al Jarreau My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
    Al Jarreau
    American singer and musician (1940 - 2017)
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  • Bobby Moynihan My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.
    Bobby Moynihan
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1977 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Dylan No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • C. Day Lewis Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Audre Lorde Oppression is as American as apple pie.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 114
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Eric Hoffer Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • George F. Will Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Jonathan Swift Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • John Updike Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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