"I think it's cooler when girls have favorite pieces of clothing rather than an entirely new wardrobe every few months."
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"Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces."
"I've always been something these labels can't buy, especially if they tryna take a piece of my soul."
"Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese."
"The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree."
"For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing."
"One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket."
"Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a prospective owner."
"It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was perhaps a perfectly definite necessity of that life and would have been absorbed by it without effort."
"The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass."
"In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because it’s architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams go. Can I do it in one piece like Halston? Can you formaldehyde DNA?"
"The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it's asset allocation."
"It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them."
"The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life."
"Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces."
"You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art."
"Less is more. I truly believe in buying a few pieces with better construction."
"Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through."
"See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone’s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest."
"Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece I'm lookin' for my missin' piece Hi-dee-ho, here I go, Lookin' for my missin' piece"