My mother gave me a piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. The correction was the meat, the substance. And then she would sandwich that with another piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. That was very important in shaping and molding our morality, our understanding of ourselves, making sure that we didn't think we were better than or less than anyone, feeling no more worthy or no less worthy than anyone else.
In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
You don't want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.
It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development.
I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.
The plane as an object has been a huge effort to make. It is a sculpture, a technological invention, a piece of aviation culture. But really, it only exists to be inserted into a variety of landscapes, to be a catalyst, to offset them.
I like music that is really pure and honest. For me, acoustic music, like a piece played on the piano, is very personal.
I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.
I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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.
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware. . . that is failure.
Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.
The university has become so stultified since the sixties. There is so much you can't do at the university. You can't say this, you can't do that, you can't think this, and so forth. In many ways, I'm free to range as widely as I do intellectually precisely because I'm not at a university. The tiresome Chicanos would be after me all the time. You know: "We saw your piece yesterday, and we didn't like what you said," or, "You didn't sound happy enough," or, "You didn't sound proud enough. "
When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.
I have one piece of advice for you: sleep your way to the top.
What a piece of work is a man
Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.
If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.