Pieces Quotes — Page 31

Film Critic

“The Vores Third Quartet is a terrific piece that brings disparate components into harmony. . . it's celebratory, imaginative, touching, and fun.”

Fun Pieces Touching

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Richard P. Feynman

Physicist

“So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with instruments and talks to the strange creatures in the audience. What a wonderful world!”

Years Waiting Pieces

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman

“Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.”

Fall Pieces

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Simone Elkeles

Author

“Alex took a piece of my heart with him when he left.”

Heart Pieces

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Ricky Jay

Magician

“I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.”

Ideas Pieces Radio

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Simone Elkeles

Author

“You own a piece of me," he murmurs as he holds me afterward. "Good," I tell him. "And just so you know… I'm never giving it back.”

Giving Pieces Hold Me

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Robert Charles Wilson

Author

“The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist.”

Doe Pieces Boards

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Stendhal

Novelist

“Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being put off by empty words, but he had neglected to tell him that this habit was a crime in the person of no importance, since every piece of logical reasoning is offensive.”

Pieces Offensive Logical Reasoning

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Stephen King

Author

“The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work.”

Thinking Pieces Ghost Stories

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Susan Sontag

Essayist, Critic, Activist

“Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.”

Photography Pieces Ongoing

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Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual Leader, Philosopher

“The Atman alone is eternal. Hospitals will tumble down. Railroad givers will all die. This earth will be blown to pieces, suns wiped out. The Atman endures for ever.”

Earth Pieces Railroads

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Russell Baker

Writer

“Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.”

Pieces Glorious Rhetoric

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