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“I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like going back into childhood. And it's like an abstract piece.. it becomes the landscape of the brush marks rather than just sort of an intellectual landscape.”

People Knows Want Pieces Childhood Painting Intellectual Mark Landscape Abstract Brushes

Author:Jenny Saville

“Remember the importance of phrases... a piece of something, an entry, a moment, a mark. This adjusts the pressure of the giant task of creating the perfect masterwork.”

Moments Remember Perfect Pieces Creating Tasks Importance Mark Pressure Phrases Giants Entry

Author:Sara Genn

“Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas.”

Ifs Choices Pieces Paper Machines Mark Candidates Voting Gambling Pulling Old Fashioned Vegas Las Vegas Levers Slot Machines

Book:My Years as Prime Minister

Source: My Years as Prime Minister

“Turn the paper. A piece looks better if every mark is not made while the surface is in the same orientation.”

Ifs Looks Made Turns Pieces Paper Mark Surface Orientation

Author:Jean Wilson

“The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.”

Able Pieces Mark Bottom Ecstasy Pottery Ceramics

Book:A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

Source: A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections

“John Marks Templeton has achieved exemplary success in both business and philanthropy. For Looking Forward he has assembled a diverse and remarkable group of experts in their fields-including the environment, medicine, the physical sciences, religion, the family, and international relations-and contributed two stellar pieces as well. Together these essays dispel fashionable pessimism and show how the world can progress-and is progressing-toward a better future.”

“In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language, and I mean including America and England, at some time wrote for Punch. Jerome K. Jerome, who wrote Three Men In A Boat, I loved. I was very impressed when I read a piece by Mark Twain in Punch, and realized that despite the fact that they were on different continents, Jerome K. Jerome and Mark Twain had the same kind of laconic, laid-back, "The human race is damn stupid, but quite interesting" attitude. They were almost talking with the same voice.”

“When your world is in pieces, you can choose to see it as crumbling or building. Your attitude, resilience and determination mark the difference.”

World Inspirational Differences Attitude Pieces Building Determination Mark Resilience Crumbling

Author:Rita Zahara

“Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally, he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction.”

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated): All 4 Novels and 56 Stories with More Than 480 Illustrations

“There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it.”

Names Sound Pieces Mark Substance

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“You will not get to steal quietly into heaven, into Christ's company, without a conflict and a cross. I find crosses to be Christ's carved work that he marks out for us and that with crosses he portraits us to his own image, cutting away pieces of our ill and corruption. Lord cut - Lord carve - Lord wound - Lord do anything that may perfect thy Father's image in us and make us ready for glory.”

May Suffering Father Heaven Christ Perfect Company Lord Pieces Cutting Ready Conflict Glory Crosses Mark Ill Corruption Wounds Stealing Portraits Affliction

Author:Samuel Rutherford

“I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your mark and gotten your Rolling Stone piece and your Grammy nomination, that they're on to the next piece of meat, and they don't necessarily like to follow the twistsand turns of an artistic career. Throwing an opera at them is something they have to notice. There's nothing subtle about it.”

Made America Turns Next Careers Pieces Stones Mark Artistic Meat Subtle Throwing Opera Rolling Ups & Downs Rolling Stones Nominations One Piece Grammy

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the music to someone who can play it, releasing it into the air where it can once more be heard. And the black alphabet marks on the page represent words that were once spoken, if only in the writer's head. They lie there inert until a reader comes along and transforms the letters into living sounds. The reader is the musician of the book: each reader may read the same text, just as each violinist plays the same piece, but each interpretation is different.”

Ifs Way May Book Different Play Lying Sound Black Voice Pieces Heard Air Reader Musician Pages Letters Mark Musical Score Interpretation Frozen Alphabet Violinist

Author:Margaret Atwood