Pocketing/contemporary Piercing Practices

Famous quotes containing the words contemporary, piercing and/or practices:

“Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

“O falling fire and piercing cry
and panic, and a weak mailed fist
clenched ignorant against the sky!”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

“Money made through dishonest practices will not last long.”
—Chinese proverb.