I have a passion for luggage - trunks and so on. I have a collection of them, but I can never resist buying another piece.
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.
A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off.
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside?
There are a countless variety of hardships in any life," Kedean answered,"...only the most basic of which can be solved with mansions, gold pieces, and titles of nobility.
People despite their struggles, flaws and faults are honestly the most beautiful creatures. We are wonderfully-broken pieces of art.
There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.
With cheese being the only piece to look for our mind's peace, how can the lease of our homemade,self-created problems' cease ?
Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.
I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.
The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.
He cleared his throat and reminded himself that if you pissed Her Holiness off, they'd need barbecue tongs to pick up your steaming pieces.
But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.
I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don't see them as chess pieces.
And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done.
I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.
When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very intimate and extended conversation with the work materials themselves.
To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
