The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus,… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just… — Glenn Danzig Copy Share Image
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Sometimes people won't even finish a piece that you wrote, because they've already decided what it is that you want to say,… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
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A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get -… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it… — Josh Smith Copy Share Image
Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord. — Sallust Copy Share Image
this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
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Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Taking a sip of the hot chocolate he'd made her, she met his gaze, those eerie eyes of endless black impenetrable, unreadable.… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you. — Oscar De La Hoya Copy Share Image
Too many students who are technically quite far advanced do not properly interpret the technically less difficult pieces they play, because they… — Leopold Auer Copy Share Image
I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces. — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
That's just something instinctual within men. We always feel like we've got to protect our stuff. Even if it's not worth protecting,… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
Somebody somewhere on this planet, back about 600 B.C. found some pieces of R6, and I don't know how they found it,… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
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I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. We can never… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Lust is weak desire. A woman without a good head on her shoulders is nothing but a piece of meat. — Kool Moe Dee Copy Share Image
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Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach. — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
I think the way design was practiced for most of the 20th century was very declarative. A designer came up with a… — Khoi Vinh Copy Share Image
I remember in the Carpenter version, you got acquainted with the characters and really knew them. It was a real character piece.… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
It's important for us not to lose sight of the fact that this is a family that's grieving and there's been a… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of… — Ron Jaworski Copy Share Image
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