#pie

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#chess #clever #course #eyes #felt

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone. ↗

— Adrienne Clarkson

#artful #builder #cathedrals #conception #creation

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings. ↗

— Chuck Close

#bigger #color #colors #could #did

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object. ↗

— Chuck Close

#another #around #like #object #occupies

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#any #delicious #disagreeable #element #manifests

I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that! ↗

— Shannon Hoon

#hippies #hippy #i #lot #people

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth. ↗

— Juan Cole

#change #character #forth #laws #make

I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music. ↗

— John Coltrane

#aspects #awakened #began #bird #dizzy

The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#natural #natural resource #only #own #piece

The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity. ↗

— Lou Henry Hoover

#humanity #independent #little #little piece #modern