Pie Quotes - Page 9

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.

Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack.

You can't kill the past by denying the past. You can kill it only by making it obsolete. And even in that, you have to find honor in the past. You can't hack off pieces of yourself, and expect them to grow again.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.

I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure

I've never really tried to copy anyone, I like to have my own style.

Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.

Sooner or later, all games become serious.

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.

Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level. Many of my male colleagues, when they go to the House floor, you know, they've got some pie chart or graph behind them and they're talking about trillions of dollars and how, you know, the debt is awful and, you know, we all agree with that we need our male colleagues to understand that if you can bring it down to a woman's level and what everything that she is balancing in her life - that's the way to go.

I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.

In fact, all of us have a piece of Chernobyl in our bodies going back to 1986.

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

The greatest determinant of greatness is going to be our ability to collaborate with others who have pieces of the puzzle we don't.

People who have ordered my pieces to be removed should have asked themselves before if they were artworks or vandalism.

It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time.

A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.

There is no such thing as a Difficult Piece. A piece is either impossible - or it is easy. The process whereby it migrates from one category to the other is known as practicing.

I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.

I'm a former hippie; I did drugs back when they were healthy. The only time I ever did LSD was at Disney World. I didn't go there - it came to me. I was Snow White.