I got Joan Baez to talk and Alan Ginsberg and some of the guys in the band. And by the end of… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I find it difficult to breathe when l'm in the space. There seems to be no oxygen. I want to put people… — Steve McQueen Copy Share Image
'Dune' was like a giant machine, and it was hard to keep track of all the pieces, but 'Blue Velvet' was a… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king,… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
[The Women's Room] is very much a white woman's piece of fiction, for sure. But for me, as a white woman, I… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge,… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Sometimes we forget to be grateful until we survive a trauma. For example, after having the flu when you ache all over,… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
If the movie is terrible you can have fun. You can joke about it and have a ball. The movie is already… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
My favorite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
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Being in love means you are completely broken, then put back together. The one piece that was yours is beating in your… — Jason Molina Copy Share Image
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
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I have always been drawn to the beauty of things designed to function. Mixing technical pieces with more traditional prints and patterns… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
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For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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I keep only a small edit in my wardrobe because I think it is important to keep things moving through, and I… — Alice Temperley Copy Share Image
I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I have a collection of vintage sundresses, and I've never worn them because for some reason I always opt for shorts and… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share Image
We want to stay with the animatronics because it gives you such a wonderful feel of Chucky's movement. It feels like something… — David Kirschner Copy Share Image
People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
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Time and movement became really crucial to how I deal with what I deal with, not only sight and boundary but how… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
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A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image