Marge Piercy Quotes

If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.

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• I live in the moment, and I reflect later.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Live
  • Moment
  • Reflect

• In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.

  

  Imran Amed
  • School
  • Theatre
  • Studying

• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Nobody
  • Anymore
  • Crowded

• I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • Work
  • Great
  • Israel

• The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Morning
  • Coffee
  • Ice

• I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Work
  • Want
  • Change

• Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Yourself
  • Motivational

• I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Good
  • Think
  • Movies

• If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Good
  • Love
  • Feeling

• For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Small
  • Need
  • Unknown

• You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Faith
  • Know
  • Doubt

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Me
  • Place
  • Underdog

• Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Nobody
  • Detail

• For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Winning

• TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Different
  • Want
  • Look

• I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.

  

  Zach Braff
  • World
  • Job
  • Day

• I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.'

  

  Ben Nicholas
  • Music
  • Theatre

• I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Dumb
  • Oppose

• We are waging a nuclear war in Iraq right now. That country is contaminated. It will be contaminated for practically eternity now.

  

  Cindy Sheehan
  • Country
  • War

• I have been in Wall Street all of my life. I love it. It has been good to me. I know many wonderful, decent, honorable, ethical, hard-working people that were in Wall Street with me.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• ... there had been the two little boys. Now they were gone, too. They loved her and called her and sent her e-mails and would still snuggle up to her to be petted when they were in the mood, but they were men, and though they would always be at the center of her life, she was no longer at the center of theirs.

  

  Cathleen Schine
  • Men
  • Mood
  • Boys

• If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • War
  • Sex
  • Objector