Prune Quotations

Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.

Jerry is a very credible guy. He lives what he talks. I completely respect that. Sometimes, he may say something to you that you don't want to hear. But it's the truth. Sometimes that will prune you back a little bit. But when you get pruned, you always grow more fruit.

Our biggest hazard out here is packrats. We don't want brush piles to build, so we prune our trees every year near the house.

Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.

We prune and remove about 8,000 trees a year. And every year we plant around 2,500.

These are the favored ones-year after year-read under dim spot lamps in taxis or air shuttles, balanced on subways, carried on boardwalks and into bathtubs. They develop broken spines, pages like prune skin or go to their reward in the land of lost umbrellas.

In the short run, say a few weeks or months, there is likely to be only a finite number of people who know how to prune grape vines, for example. So even if the wage went up a bit, not many more people would be available and qualified. Given more time or some advanced information that substantially higher wages would be available, many more people would be available and the shortage would disappear at the higher wage. But, currently, there has not been time for the wage to rise sufficiently and no one knows if the market will remain tight long enough for the wages to adjust.