I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will… — Wilhelm Steinitz Copy Share Image
It was very important, and I felt like music ran through my blood lines, with my father being a deejay and teaching… — Pete Rock Copy Share Image
There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna.… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I still love taking pictures with Polaroid film. For me, it offers the most beautiful way of capturing reality and transferring it… — Helena Christensen Copy Share Image
To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I don't need to be everywhere because my art pieces can talk for themselves. — Jeppe Hein Copy Share Image
“The greatest legacy a father can leave for his children before he departs is PEACE, otherwise his properties will go in PIECES… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
One of the things that makes it so challenging is that we're constructing the Station hundreds of miles above the surface of… — Tamara E. Jernigan Copy Share Image
I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
When I was at Hartford in Connecticut, where I lived during the war, I published several pieces which were well received, not… — Jupiter Hammon Copy Share Image
For me, I believe comedy's about taking risks, taking chances, working in a safe environment where you're comfortable making a fool of… — Michael Spiller Copy Share Image
Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something… — Adrienne Clarkson Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce. — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
If you knew how important you are, you would fragment into a billion pieces and just be light. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
To create a usable piece of software, you have to fight for every fix, every feature, every little accommodation that will get… — Dave Winer Copy Share Image
To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own,… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to… — Sam Claflin Copy Share Image
In the middle of this it was good to have some moments in which whatever was left of you could sit in… — Philip O Ceallaigh Copy Share Image
The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Well, like I said, there's no reason everyone can't have a piece of the pie, even if there's a gordo there eating… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes… — Alejandro Amenabar Copy Share Image
...she could express her soul with that voice, whenver I listened to her I felt my life meant more than mere biology...she… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
I gotta go on doin' it the way I see it...I got no choice but to take it like I see it.… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
I love ensemble pieces, I love being a part of the entire tapestry of a piece, but I think character actors do… — Mark Hamill Copy Share Image
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages. — Matt Lucas Copy Share Image
If you own a simple Weber kettle grill, you own a smoker. You don't have to spend an enormous amount of money… — Steven Raichlen Copy Share Image
... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I might be a completely different kind of songwriter but I definitely think there are some things... I've taken pieces from different… — Mark Stoermer Copy Share Image
The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
If a piece ofknotted string can unleash the wind and if a drowned man can awaken... then I believe a broken man… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
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