#piece

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States. ↗

— Terry Southern

#attention #believe #came #first #got

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#get #i #learned #machine #morning

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#closing #critical #doing #gap #how

I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#brain #comfortable #i #knew #make

A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#applicable #been #enormous #exemption #garner

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#enemy #may #pawn #piece #play

When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#attack #attacked #attacking #between #checked

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student. ↗

— James Galway

#i #i think #important #most #pieces

It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling. ↗

— David Strathairn

#builds #chord #compelling #each #hear

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#end #finish #long #many #music