- Nov 07, 2020
Chipping Quotes
Quotes on wearing something down bit by bit.
These chipping quotes move between a home recording studio built from grief and the unglamorous chores of farm life. Compare persistence in Experience quotes.
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- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what the sound is or the song is until I've spent a lot of time on it. I'm always chipping away at it, rethinking it.
- Mama
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're chipping away at our capacity for wonder. When hologram TVs eventually go on sale, they'll cost £20,000 and be bought only by those strange, heroic, friendless men who live in flats piled high with giant 80s mobiles and DVD players weighing eight stone.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the concessions that leading Democrats seem willing to make - from cutting diversity visas to chipping away at family visas - would be made on the backs of black immigrants, people from Africa and the Caribbean who deserve these policies to remain intact as some of the few legal tools they have to immigrate to this country.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.
- College Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a three year promotion and touring cycle.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020