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"One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces."
"The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience."
"The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand."
"I had an iPhone and a Droid and both of them were miserable pieces of equipment."
"It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing, watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces."
"The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature."
"Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise."
"Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse."
"And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?"
"she had given me a piece of what made her life sane."
"Turn the paper. A piece looks better if every mark is not made while the surface is in the same orientation."
"If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway."
"Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world."
"Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]"
"The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later."
"It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it - a four-by-four-foot stop sign."
"We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history--even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it?"
"With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control."
"No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it."
"There is always a point in the writing of a piece when I sit in a room literally papered with false starts and cannot put one word after another and imagine that I have suffered a small stroke, leaving me apparently undamaged but actually aphasic."
