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2908 Piece quotes by 2165 unique authors

Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no… — Edward Abbey
I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and say, 'Oh, we're… — Zadie Smith
I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a piece… — Stephen Shore
I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that. — Laura Marling
I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how the call every small house 'charming' and every run-down… — Stephan Pastis
The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and… — Carl Jung
A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work. — Harold Pinter
Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side of preserving the… — Mitt Romney
Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and… — Leonardo da Vinci
Being in love means you are completely broken, then put back together. The one piece that was yours is beating in your lover's breast. She… — Jason Molina
James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix, a Proust in… — Raymond Chandler
In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns. — Wilhelm Steinitz
If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it. — Mikhail Botvinnik
In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man. — Andrew Carnegie
Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned… — Studs Terkel
I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens, absorbed… — Shaun Tan
Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base,… — Jose Saramago
We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on… — Malala Yousafzai
If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity — Mahatma Gandhi
The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate… — Philip Larkin
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I… — Amos Oz
I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively — Paula Cole
One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables… — Peter Gabriel
When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in… — John Zorn
The very best [infographics] engender and facilitate an insight by visual means — allow us to grasp some relationship quickly and easily that otherwise would… — David Byrne

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