Pieces Quotes - Page 39

• Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

  Vernor Vinge

  Knowing, Heaven, Littles

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.93, Macmillan

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• Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information. (...) Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design’s most humane functions is, in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.

  Ellen Lupton

  Book, Reading, Offering

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.87, Chronicle Books

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• Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner - but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal.

  Robert Irvine

  Sweet, Chocolate, Brain

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• And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice.

  Kim Gordon

  Song, Art, Thinking

  Interview with Chris Rolls, www.tv.com. June 12, 2006.

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• As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical tract, it evinces a fiercely nihilistic, anti-humanistic vision built upon gross generalizations and ridiculously phony logic. It is a deeply repugnant read.

  Michiko Kakutani

  Philosophical, Writing, Self

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• You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'

  Neal Boortz

  Government, Individualism, Property

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• A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.

  Laurie Anderson

  Technology, United States, Different

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• To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

  Cordell Hull

  Determination, Social, Machinery

  Cordell Hull's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1945.

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• I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!

  W. Eugene Smith

  Art, Wall, Museums

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• You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting to me.

  Don Felder

  Music, Memorable, Guitar

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• When I finally bought one, the Buchla was my only piece of furniture. I lived with that thing. It was my boyfriend! I thought there was something wrong with me, because I was in love with a machine

  Suzanne Ciani

  My Boyfriend, Machines, Furniture

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• To me a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We're all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our pieces around the board, but if there's a problem, the lawyer is the only person that has actually read the inside of the top of the box.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Country, Moving, Games

  "SeinLanguage" by Jerry Seinfeld, New York: Bantam, (p. 90), 1993.

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• I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America.

  Che Guevara

  Latin, America, Liberation

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• Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of almost anonymous American men who failed. With wit and sympathy, Sandage illuminates the grey world of credit evaluation, a little studied smothering arm of capitalism. This is history as it should be, a work of art exploring the social cost of our past.

  William S. McFeely

  Beautiful, Art, Writing

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• When you're living through it, though, especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn't the world, it's you, no piece seems little. It's all so big you think it can kill you. But it doesn't. Which is why the story goes on.

  James Howe

  Thinking, Twelve, Stories

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• Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace... One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being... The people owe all the political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Rights, Government, People

  "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolf Rocker, (Ch. 5), 1938.

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• I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.

  Jim Dine

  Heart, Dine In, Easy

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• I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

  Jilly Cooper

  Sunday, Wife, Young

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• I tried sticking a piece of candy up my nose...it ended up getting stuck and the nurse had to get it out.

  Ray Toro

  Nurse, Noses, Stuck

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• In a lifetime among cops since, I've noted that investigators who piece together the aftermaths of home invasion murders tend to keep their guns on all the time after that, even when off duty in their own house, and keep them by the bed when they go to sleep.They have learned from the helplessly-murdered dead

  Massad Ayoob

  Sleep, Home, Gun

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• Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Men, Cake, Should Have

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• I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But the one Im most proud of is the one no one will ever see - the very first manuscript I ever wrote, back in 1990. It took me a year to do it.

  Steve Berry

  Children, Book, Years

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• A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.

  Fred Hoyle

  Blow, Yards, Boeing

  Fred Hoyle (1983). “The Intelligent Universe”

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• About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those I had seen in the houses of Russian peasants. When it was finished, the arrangement of the pieces of material seemed to me to evoke cubist conceptions and we then tried to apply the same process to other objects and paintings.

  Sonia Delaunay

  Son, Ideas, House

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• But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Missing, Important, Would Be

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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