Pieces Quotes — Page 36

HJ

Author

“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.”

Reading Pieces Hated

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HJ

Henry James

Author

“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.”

Judging Pieces Unseen

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LB

Lewis Black

Comedian, Actor, Author

“I had an iPhone and a Droid and both of them were miserable pieces of equipment.”

Pieces Miserable

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KH

Kim Harrison

Author

“she had given me a piece of what made her life sane.”

Made Pieces

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FD

Freeman Dyson

Theoretical Physicist

“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.”

Language Pieces Luck

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Lewis Thomas

Physician, Author

“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.”

Pieces Health Flapping

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Lewis Thomas

Physician, Author

“The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.”

Knows Pieces Ignorant

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.”

Pieces God Love Barbarism

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“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.”

Pieces Inability Vulgarity Is

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“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?”

Pieces Has Beens Given

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JW

Jean Wilson

Poet

“Turn the paper. A piece looks better if every mark is not made while the surface is in the same orientation.”

Looks Pieces Paper

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Jimmy Buffett

Musician, Author

“If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.”

Giving Age Pieces

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