“I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.” YearsArtMadeArtistBlackWhiteDecisionCareersCreativePiecesYears AgoMagazinesArtisticApologyBlack And WhitePublicationPrestigious Author:Andrea Thompson
“Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I wrote down, but I'll just have this physical memory of having written it, and in my mind I can see the piece of paper, and the words I wrote down, and then by muscle memory, I'll remember the chords that go along with it.” YearsMindI CanIdeasSometimesRememberMemoriesPiecesWrittenHavensPaperSixYears AgoDown AndBlueMusclesChordsMuscle Memory Author:Ryan Adams
“My work life makes much less sense now than 20 years ago. It's Humpty-Dumpty-like in a way; I can't put the pieces back together.” WayYearsI CanTogetherPiecesYears AgoBack TogetherHumpty Dumpty Author:Kiki Smith
“There's only one honest way to measure affluence; that's by comparing the capability of producing goods and services with the desire of people to enjoy them. It's a lousy, crooked trick to compare this society with China or some such place and then say we're affluent. It's a piece of intellectual crookery even to compare this economy with itself ten or twenty years ago. We should compare what we have with what we could have.” PeopleWayShouldYearsWisdomDesirePoliticsEnjoyEconomyPiecesHonestTenIntellectualYears AgoTwentiesChinaTricksCompareLiberalismGoodsCapabilityCrookedAffluenceThis SocietyAffluentGoods And Services Author:Louis O. Kelso
“I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.” YearsHardOpinionNovelPiecesPaperNewsYears AgoSpendingBuyingSundayPapersBetter OffHandful Author:Gerry Adams
“Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," she told him. With that, the intern took his last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.” YearsSaidGodUseLastsFivePiecesOne DayPaperYears AgoMachinesStupidityCopiesBlankSecretaryTypingCopiers Author:Dave Barry
“I don't think too much about the past when I am actually playing, I prefer to concentrate on the present. The performance of a piece, no matter how long ago or where it was written, is always a new production, something that comes alive in the present. And it doesn't matter if the piece was written two or three hundred years ago if it is alive in us.” IfsThinkingYearsLongTwoMatterPastThreeToo MuchPiecesAliveWrittenHundredYears AgoPerformancesProductionsLong AgoLive In The Present Author:David Finckel
“A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on and satisfying a key decision-maker. Today, every piece of business entails multiple decisions, and those decisions are virtually never made by the same person. Not only do you have to contend with multiple decisions, but the people who make those decisions may not even work in the same place.” PeopleIfsYearsMayPersonsMadeTodayEasyDecisionPiecesKeysCallingMajorsHundredYears AgoMakersSatisfyingMultipleDecision Makers Author:Brian Tracy
“There is nothing so depressing as good advice, and I will be pleased if you do not inflict it upon me. Frankly, I am shocked at you. You must know this, surely? Some years ago I suffered such an offensively gratuitous piece of good advice that I was depressed for six months afterward. It was a very close call - I almost never recovered.” IfsKnowsYearsPiecesAdviceMonthsSixYears AgoDepressingShockedSix MonthsGood AdviceClose Calls Book:Shantaram: A Novel Source: Shantaram: A Novel
“I don't know if there is an existing model that anyone can hold on to right now. Every [piece of] advice about how to go about in the record business you would get 5 years ago is no longer valid. Everything is changing very rapidly and there is an increased sense of anger and despair among artists that are not major-selling megastars.” IfsKnowsYearsArtistRecordsPiecesAdviceRight NowDespairMajorsModelsYears AgoSelling Author:Olof Arnalds
“Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by the media.” YearsSaidRealityWhitePiecesMediaYears AgoMalesAcademy Author:Julie Delpy
“I feel like you have to go looking for spoilers. I'm not on social media, so I will watch a show that was on ten years ago, and clearly I could find out every single piece of information about that show, but I'm not trying to spoil myself. You definitely participate in your own spoiling.” FeelsTryingYearsShowsSocialWatchesPiecesMediaInformationLike YouTenYears AgoSocial MediaSpoilSpoilers Author:Deborah Ann Woll
“I never thought Greek philosophy could make a damn bit of sense to me. And most of it didn't, but those words just seemed right. 'Love is composed of a single soul, inhabiting two bodies.'" He took her by the shoulders drawing her close. "It rang true for me, in a way nothing else did. Whatever soul I had, Katie, I think I placed it in your keeping twenty years ago. And now, it's as if...every time we kiss, you give a little piece of it back.” IfsThinkingWayGivingYearsLittlesTwoSoulPhilosophyBodyBitsLove IsPiecesLove YouKissingYears AgoTwentiesDrawingShouldersGreekDamnI Love YouKatieGreek Philosophy Author:Tessa Dare
“Prints can absolutely be investment pieces. I've seen prints from my collections from five years ago on the street now. It's totally possible. If the colors don't age and if the fabric is beautiful, then of course people should wear it year after year.” PeopleIfsShouldYearsAgeBeautifulCoursesFivePiecesStreetsColorYears AgoInvestmentFive YearsCollectionsPrintFabric Author:Thakoon Panichgul
“Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire, read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.” WayYearsKindBookShowsAnswersClassPiecesCollegeParticularFindingsLateYears AgoEastAdmireCoastTherapeuticEast Coast Author:Al Pacino
“Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.” YearsCountryPiecesHappenedHundredYears AgoWilson Author:Ron Paul
“When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.” PeopleTryingYearsLittlesWholeGuyCareersPiecesHugeYears AgoDiedBillsBrilliantThievesDisgustingPalmsRobinsHicks Author:Joe Rogan
“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.” YearsLooksLongFeelingsWisdomDreamSeemsPastRememberFacesLyingSongLostFeltSidesWaterMillionsPiecesChildhoodDyingYears AgoEternityForgottenCloudsWoodsFamiliarGoldenRelativeManhoodTrailsFamiliarityDriftingOverheadNature BeautyLonesomeNature And BeautyLying DownDharma Bums Book:Road Novels 1957-1960 Source: Road Novels 1957-1960
“Whatever soul I had, Katie, I think I placed it in your keeping twenty years ago. And now, it's as if...every time we kiss, you give a little piece of it back.” IfsThinkingGivingYearsLittlesSoulPiecesKissingYears AgoTwentiesKatie Author:Tessa Dare