Pie Quotes - Page 12

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.

Modern research divides nature into tiny pieces and conducts tests that conform neither with natural law nor with practical experience. The results are arranged for the convenience of research, not according to the needs of the farmer.

Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years.

You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly.

A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

When you trade, the key concern is not always the value of the pieces being exchanged, but what's left on the board.

Always was Morocco. And recently the country's leadership seems to have embraced it in all its ill-reputed glory. The days of predatory poets in search of literary inspiration and young flesh are probably over for good. Hippies can just as easily get their bong riffs in Portland or Peoria. But the good stuff, the real good stuff, the sounds and smells and the look of Tangier -- what you see and hear when you lean out the window and take it all in -- that's here to stay.

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

Treat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, “Thank you.

We are rather like children, who must take a watch to pieces to see how it works.

I'd like a nice piece of salmon that's not too pink inside and yet isn't too dry or crisp either.

Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to be . . . . I would really think of the bakery counters, of the way the counter was lit, where the pies were placed, but I wanted just a piece of the experience. From when I worked in restaurants . . . [it was] always poetic to me.

I've worked really hard. I've made three pieces of seminal art in my life. If I died tomorrow, I'd be remembered for making them. There are a lot of artists who, no matter how hard they work in their lives, will never make anything seminal.

My work is so strongly fashion, and it meant I had to downplay my exuberance and sculptural dimension to something that would fit into jewelry cases and sit next to Rolex watches and David Yurman [pieces].

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

People sometimes say that we will know feminism has done its job when half the CEOs are women. That’s not feminism; to quote Catharine MacKinnon, it’s liberalism applied to women. Feminism will have won not when a few women get an equal piece of the oppression pie, served up in our sisters’ sweat, but when all dominating hierarchies - including economic ones - are dismantled.