Building Quote by Jim Sullivan

“I wondered how much time they'd spent practicing entrances like this one, smoothing away their rough edges and rendering them brief but potent expressions…

— Seanan McGuire

Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians are proven…

— Michael Showalter

You spend most of your life working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and you don't…

— Geddy Lee

I love simple food. I like to serve the entire animal, not only because it somehow provokes a customer to think about it, but…

— Mario Batali

“...; the chipped plates might have been disinterred from some kitchen midden near an inhabited lake; and the chops recalled times more ancient still.…

— Joseph Conrad

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like…

— Roger Bart

First the pork chops, then morality

— Bertolt Brecht

When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You…

— Ira Glass

I knew Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were really talented. As actors, they were both studly young men, and they had great writers' chops.

— Robin Williams

Classical music is always a really great way for me to get my chops to where I want them to be.

— Lucia Micarelli

You can really get your chops in shape in the resident theatres, and I urge anyone to investigate them and to be willing to…

— Jefferson Mays

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

— Cy Coleman