The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I always tell people that if you gave me a pen and a piece of paper when I was a teenager and… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions--tell me, what trespass is it that man should… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise! — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
Liesel's blood had dried inside of her. It crumbled. She almost broke into pieces on the steps. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I usually need a lot of time to be completely alone with the particular piece, the composer, and the instrument. I also… — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
I am a fan of movies and there is something about watching film that is burned into celluloid for all time that… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door. It made… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size,… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Well my own impression of my musical pieces is that no matter how long I've been at it, there's not much improvement.… — Nobuo Uematsu Copy Share Image
The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
I am the MacGyver of cooking. If you bring me a piece of bread, cabbage, coconut, mustard greens, pigs feet, pine cones...and… — Si Robertson Copy Share Image
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It's one of the things that looks good written down, but the reality is that you think about the pieces you're doing… — Matthew Bourne Copy Share Image
There aren't a lot of alternative roles for Indian actors. I think we've fallen short of portraying Indians in the media. We… — Chris Eyre Copy Share Image
Finding your look isn't complicated if you go in without being frightened. Notice what people are complimenting you on. Experiment with new… — Lauren Hutton Copy Share Image
We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. Romantics, idealists, eccentrics, we inhabit single-dom as our natural resting… — Sasha Cagen Copy Share Image
Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Question the Chestnuts. Chestnuts: the new name for boobs? No. NO. Why would you even say that? Get your mind out of… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
It's so important for jewelry has to be versatile. The statement piece is no longer just that. One day it's a statement… — Ivanka Trump Copy Share Image
The act of creation, making anything, is an alteration. We cannot eliminate the medium or ourselves from the process, and both are… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm… — Frida Giannini Copy Share Image
People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly.'… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this… — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
Literally, the piece at the end is where the universe is cracked apart, it's a big moment. Basically, they, the filmmakers, have… — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
It's changed throughout the years, but at one time I was a really big bubble gum ice cream fan. I'd spit the… — Timothy Olyphant Copy Share Image
I don't like champagne, I don't smoke cigars, I haven't any real jewellery at all, apart from the 8 pieces of gold… — John Toshack Copy Share Image
