#piece

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#man #paid #per #perhaps #piece

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#belongs #carousel #did #ever #first

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#because #better #cut #eat #enough

I've always developed all my own pieces, and they're time-consumers. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#developed #i #my own #own #pieces

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#piece-of-work #quintessence-of-dust #shakespeare #soliloquy #william-shakespeare

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece. ↗

— David Bowie

#amazes #analyze #even #intelligent #intelligent people

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing. ↗

— David Bowie

#away #does #i #longer #me

There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before. ↗

— Nobuo Uematsu

#celtic #celtic music #even #familiarity #heard

It's very important to understand that the 'Talk' piece was not an excerpt, it was an adaptation, which means I compressed different parts of the book and made a new piece. ↗

— David Brock

#book #compressed #different #different parts #i

Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#capitalize #fit #how #important #into