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"I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble."
"Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position."
"Sometimes a piece of sun burned like a coin in my hand."
"We treat the Bible, not as if it's a magic book that has to be handled like a piece of abracadabra, make sure it's dusted, never put it on the floor, and things like that."
"We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment."
"The problem is that, over time, big pieces of business that have to get done without leadership from Washington, don't get done."
"I'm an advocate for buying few, but very good quality pieces of clothing, and if you do that you need to take care of them."
"After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind."
"Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others."
"I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood."
"Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself."
"I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book."
"[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus."
"When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature."
"Most of the places I've been, I've been a main piece of the puzzle."
"I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis."
"Every piece of music is not for everybody."
"The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence."
"Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about."
"In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side."
