“My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as I suspected, they were awful. "How do you Latinas do this all the time in touch with your emotions?" I asked her. "That's why we take siestas," she replied.” MadeEmotionCuttingMy FriendsAwfulBreastsLatina Author:Molly Ivins
“In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." With that, the conversation was over.” SaidI CanMomentsUseRememberUsedNumbersFiveFourCuttingFitConversationMy FriendsAgreementImpressedElephantsDesperationArbitraryProceduresCalculationsTrunksParametersNot ImpressedVon Neumann Author:Freeman Dyson
“Three days after my boyfriend left me, I discovered a closetful of his clothes. I thought of what I'd done in the past (bundling them up and sending them, COD: distributing them to my friends) even as I already had the scissors in hand and was cutting his shirts and a pair of pants into teeny pieces. When there was nothing left of his ghost except a large pile of cloth, I decided to learn how to quilt.” DoneHandsPastThreeLeftPiecesCuttingClothesMy FriendsDecidedGhostShirtsPairsPantsMy BoyfriendScissorsQuilts Author:Anne Elizabeth Moore
“I'm sorry, those pictures from the Abu Ghraib. At first, they, like infuriated me, I was sad. Then like, a couple days later, after they cut the guy's head off, they didn't seem like much. And now, I like to trade them with my friends.” FirstsSeemsGuyCuttingCoupleMy FriendsTradeSorryI'm SorryAbu Ghraib Author:Dennis Miller
“My dad gave me a haircut... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.” SaidHouseCasesCuttingDadMy FriendsMy DadVery GoodBowlsHaircutsChili Author:Chili Davis
“When I was a child, I had a ViewMaster, those red box glasses with little discs, so that you can see 3D images. They were my first steps in cinema. I was eight years old, I would cut and change the order of the images and that's how I created films that subsequently I recorded and projected and showed my friends. So I already took my first steps in 3D when I was eight years old.” YearsFirstsChildrenLittlesFilmOrderStepsCuttingMy FriendsRedGlassesBoxesEightCinemaFirst StepsDiscs Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo.” FightingPartyCuttingMy FriendsEdgesStatus QuoCutting EdgeTurf Author:Elizabeth May
“People never understand what a friendship is. I'll tell you what a friendship is to me. Friendship to me is, if my friends need my little finger to live, I'm going to have it cut off. I'm going to the hospital, they cut off my finger, and maybe I have a gold finger instead, and I become famous. But I still give it to my friend.” PeopleIfsNeedsGivingLittlesStillsCuttingMy FriendsGoldFingersHospitals Author:Udo Kier
“I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.” ThinkingSongCuttingRocksJokesMy FriendsTeethTeenagerAmusingGenesisAccordionsPolkaRock SongMedley Author:Al Yankovic
“The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine, a zine, when I was 14 or 15 years old. I was shooting my friends skateboarding and it was the beginning of the Macintosh. We wouldn't do layouts on the computer; we would pick the font and then type up a paragraph and then print it out and cut it up and put it in a little mock-up and Xerox it.” YearsLittlesMotherCuttingTypeComputerStandardsPicksMy FriendsCamerasMagazinesShootingPrintPunkLensesMockParagraphManualsCanonSkateboardingMacintoshLayoutFontsXeroxZines Author:Jeff Vespa
“All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.” PeopleWayRunningCertainHousePerfectCreativeCuttingWonderfulMy FriendsCookingMeant To BeAmbitiousMarvelousBe CreativeHousewife Author:Diana Vreeland
“I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.” PeopleKidsBitsLaughingCuttingMy FriendsFamily And FriendsMaking People LaughBeing Funny Author:Busy Philipps
“I like LA. LA is cool, but it ain't like home. Atlanta is home. All my friends are here, I grew up here. But LA is cool. Its more like a big office. Its work and you work, and you're meetin' people all the time, but its more like acquaintances than friends and stuff.I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.” PeopleThinkingHomeBigsWantedStuffCuttingGrewOfficeGrew UpMy FriendsAcquaintanceAtlantaProfanityCuss Words Author:Chris Tucker
“I don't play anymore because I can't play anymore and I retired when I was playing for Chelsea because the doctor had to cut my leg in two parts so this is why I retired. I started going to the gym recently and my knee started to hurt again, so you can imagine what it would be like if I tried to play! I play football on the beach with my daughters and my friends but that's it.” IfsI CanTwoPlayWould BeHurtCuttingImagineFootballDaughterMy FriendsDoctorsLegsBeachKneesMy DaughterGymRetiredBecause I CanChelsea Author:Emmanuel Petit
“The first one that I went to with my friends was with my buddy Michael - and we actually cut class to get tickets - was INXS at the Garden.” FirstsClassCuttingMy FriendsGardenTicketsBuddy Author:Adam Richman
“I must say what I admire most is the person who masters an area of practical experience, and can teach me something. I mean, my local midwife has taught me how to keep bees. Well, she can't understand anything I write. And I find myself liking her, may I say, more than most poets. And among my friends I find people who know all about boats or know all about certain sports, or how to cut somebody open and remove an organ. I'm fascinated by this mastery of the practical.” PeopleKnowsWritingWellsMayMeanPersonsCertainSportsTeachCuttingTaughtPoetMastersMy FriendsAreasPracticalsLocalsAdmireBoatRemoveFascinatedMasteryOrgansBeesMidwifePractical Experience Author:Sylvia Plath
“I am one of those sort of "lesser" types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn't have made it on their own if other people hadn't helped them. A straightforward capitalist society would've cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women.” PeopleIfsMadeDiesCuttingModernTypeMy FriendsMy FamilySavedMade ItSensitiveCapitalistStraightforwardPsychotherapy Author:Dar Williams
“I make a lot of money. I can take a pay cut. All my friends are taking pay cuts that are in the unions, that are - that are farming in Alabama or whatever it is. I can surely take a pay cut, too, not cutting down my show or - or the people that work for me, I can take a pay cut.” PeopleI CanShowsPayCuttingMy FriendsUnionsLots Of MoneyFarmingAlabamaCutting Down Author:Kid Rock
“I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.” SchoolUsedLove IsWatchesCuttingJourneyHugeGrewGrew UpMy FriendsVideoBattlefieldsMtv Author:Mary J. Blige
“When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned to love with my whole body. I would let death enter me as you had entered me. You had crept along my blood vessels through the wound, and the blood that circulates returns to the heart. You circulated me, you made me blush like a girl in the hoop of your hands. You were in my arteries and my lymph, you were the colour just under my skin, and if I cut myself, it was you I bled. Red Isolde, alive on my fingers, and always the force of blood pushing you back to my heart.” IfsThinkingHeartMadeWholeBodyHandsFacesGirlForceCuttingAliveBloodReturnMy HeartMy FriendsRedSkinsFingersWoundsColourPushingTrapsVesselArteriesBlood Vessels Author:Jeanette Winterson
“Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.” Has BeensRealEndsWholeCuttingEvidenceMy FriendsDefeatedVague Book:The Mysterious Affair at Styles Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“My life is not packaged, Not tidy. There are leftover strands and jagged Edges that cut even my friends.” Life IsCuttingMy FriendsEdgesStrandsTidyJagged Edge Author:Walter Dean Myers