#piece

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ↗

— Jim Bouton

#around #baseball #end #good #gripping

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#director #gut #heart #lost #makes

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#additional #basic #basis #benefit #broker

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#big #every #everyone #extra #fill

I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#aura #buying #colors #did #done

Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#anywhere #badly #beat #been #carry

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#compose #easier #form #just #manual

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system. ↗

— Kalpana Chawla

#feel #galaxy #just #land #look

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#entire #fabric #her #longest #nature

I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can't hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese. ↗

— Phil Collins

#because #bother #bread #cheese #cutting