Marge Piercy Quotes

On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.

Marge Piercy

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• Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Die
  • Famous
  • Before

• Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Long
  • Die
  • Listen

• It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Die
  • Chance
  • Finding

• Reminded of what a diet really is, I began eating more slowly, being more conscious of when I was full. I started to enjoy my buckwheat bread with goat cheese and pureed butternut-squash soup as a response to real hunger.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Real
  • Enjoy
  • Hunger

• I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Hope
  • Die
  • Young

• 'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Die
  • Would
  • Carousel

• The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Food
  • Best
  • Diet

• I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Faith
  • Die
  • Famous

• I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Funny
  • Die

• The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Die
  • Win
  • Hunger

• There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Die
  • Comedy
  • Fans

• To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Death
  • Know

• To retire is to begin to die.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Die
  • Begin
  • Retire

• To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Why
  • Man

• Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

  

  Basil Hume
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Die

• Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Work
  • Long
  • High

• I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Helping
  • Patient

• Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Up
  • Music
  • You

• He was proud, like all lonely men. Lonely men must be proud or die.

  

  Gene Wolfe
  • Men
  • Die
  • Proud

• The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Different
  • Working
  • Camera

• If you are afraid of changes Watch from a distance Whether or not I might do something If you're going to talk about me behind my back It is what it is.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Distance
  • Changes
  • Afraid

• I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Cold

• In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Matter
  • Organization
  • Easy

• On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Die
  • Diet
  • Slim