Piers Quotes - Page 2

• I do believe that his given name is something odd. Peregrine, Penrose- Piers, that's it." "He sounds like a dock." Lord Sundron put in. "Mrs. Hutchins called me a light frigate this morning," Linnet said "a dock might be just the thing for me.

  Eloisa James

  Morning, Believe, Light

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• Where did you go to school?” Piers inquired. “Your all together too literate for a butler. Most bulters I know say things like as you wish, my lord, and leave it at that. Our conversations should be along these lines: Prufrock, bring me a wench and then you would say, as you wish.

  Eloisa James

  School, Wish, Together

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• If you get made fun of working at Pier One Imports, you can't pelt them with poop.

  Doug Stanhope

  Fun, Poop, Made

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• I am just not a great fan of the Piers Morgan format. I would rather do something a bit more substantial.

  David Cameron

  Fans, Format, Bits

  "Cameron to Appear on 'Alan Titchmarsh'". Radio 4 Interview, www.digitalspy.com. February 21, 2010.

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• Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.

  Norman Mailer

  Girl, Running, Fishing

  Norman Mailer (1992). “Advertisements for Myself”, p.519, Harvard University Press

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• When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a composer is working with are about discreet, notated music that someone else will play.

  DJ Spooky

  Thinking, Play, Issues

  Source: bigthink.com

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• ...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms.

  Walt Whitman

  Simple, Men, Two

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.293

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• WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken, cracked from the wind. This great estuary is wide, endless. The river is brackish, blue with the cold. It passes beneath us blurring. The sea birds hang above it, they wheel, disappear. We flash the wide river, a dream of the past. The deeps fall behind, the bottom is paling the surface, we rush by the shallows, boats beached for winter, desolate piers. And on wings like the gulls, soar up, turn, look back.

  James Salter

  Dream, Lying, Fall

  James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.3, Vintage

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• The Spirit of Justice is the single most important seed Piers planted; if you don't live by its teaching, your chance of salvation is nil. Unless Conscience and the Cardinal Virtues form the food that people live on, just take my word for it, they're utterly lost - every single living soul among them!

  William Langland

  Wisdom, Teaching, Justice

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• You don't want to make an enemy of Piers Morgan.

  Lynne Truss

  Enemy, Want

  "Queen of pedants". Interview with John Mullan, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2003.

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• When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

  Andy Andrews

  Mom, Dad, Cancer

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• Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage sandwich, and parked their cars under this bridge. And fortunately they wanted that sausage sandwich because they saw one of these piers with an eight foot gash in it about five inches wide. And oh, they knew automatically that this bridge was in deep trouble.

  Steve Kroft

  Eight, Bridges, Two

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I’m not being weird, you’re being a little rude. Don’t you think as a host, when I say ‘this is what I want to talk about’ that’s what we should address?

  Christine O'Donnell

  Thinking, Addresses, Want

  "Christine O'Donnell Storms Out of Piers Morgan Interview Over ‘Rude’ Treatment" by Steven Nelson, dailycaller.com. August 18, 2011.

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• The long nights that Pier Giorgio Frassati spent on his knees in front of the Blessed Sacrament had something to do with the long days spent in service of the poor.

  Robert Barron

  Blessed, Night, Long

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• It took forever for me to get work because I was a political comic, and now it's become good business, and God knows how long that'll last. You have to do it night after night after night to kind of make it. I still find myself on 'Piers Morgan' or on some show and I think, 'I hope this is funny.'

  Lewis Black

  Thinking, Night, Long

  "Cashing in on political comedy" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. September 22, 2012.

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• I'm not saying don't do the work you got, but instead of this two hours of watching TV at the hotel lobby or this three hours of sitting under the pier and reading comic books or worrying about what you're doing ... what value do you have? Can you read? There are people out there who can't read - go read to them.

  Andy Andrews

  Book, Reading, Two

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Modern Day Will Rogers Details His Latest Novel, 'The Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. June 11, 2009.

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• I'm sure the next time Piers Morgan asks me to host his show again I will ask President Obama to be my guest.

  Harvey Weinstein

  President, Guests, Next

  "Harvey Weinstein:‘Obama Will Win’". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

  John Fowles

  Hate, Mean, Solve

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• I grew up poor in crappy situations various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.

  Corey Taylor

  Kings, Growing Up, Reading

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Pier Angeli was in the movie called Sea of Sand that Guy Green directed where this idea came up.

  Richard Attenborough

  Sea, Ideas, Guy

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• Al the povere peple tho pescoddes fetten; Benes and baken apples thei broghte in hir lappe, Chibolles and chervelles and ripe chiries manye, And profrede Piers this present to plese with Hunger.

  William Langland

  Apples, Als, Hunger

  c.1378 A description of the sin of Envy. Piers Plowman (B text), 'Passus 6,' l.291-4. (pescoddes = pea-pod, fetten = fetched, chibolles = springonions, chervelles = chervil, plese withHunger = please hunger with)

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• ESPN Zone was probably the coolest thing I could do [making "Hardball"]. But Navy Pier was the other thing. I'd take my bicycle and ride down to Navy Pier and just hang out. Try to get a phone number or something. That was my thing.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Numbers, Phones, Navy

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Piers looked up at him. 'You're new. What's your name?' 'Neythen, my lord.' 'Sounds like a terrible illness. No, more like a bowel problem. I'm sorry, Lord Sandys, your son has contracted neythen and won't live a month. No, no, there's nothing I can do. Sandys would have preferred hearing that to syphilis.

  Eloisa James

  Sorry, Son, Names

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