Quotes About Piers

Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.

Morgan would later slam down that copy of the Constitution and call it "your little book" – rejecting a universally-accepted framework for discussing gun control, and throwing it in the American people's faces. Just over a year later, Piers was off the air.

Here at the end of the line, here at the world's end, the world didn't end: iron piers stretched out over the ocean, iron towers pierced the sky, somewhere under the water a great telegraph cable longer than the longest train stretched past sunken ships and octopuses all the way to England—and Martin had the odd sensation, as he stood quietly in the lifting and falling waves, that the world, immense and extravagant, was rushing away in every direction:

When people think of New York, they don't automatically think of going to Chelsea Piers and Pier 40, where you're going to find a soccer field, a baseball field, the trapeze and bowling alleys.

there were no individual beds at all, but great square piers stacked three high, and wedged side by side, and end to end with only an occasional narrow aisle slicing through.

I have, as may be apparent, not much respect for editors as a class.

May those who feel Xanth is sexist have pleasure in this novel, where Mundania is shown to be worse.

Oh, yeah?" Grundy cut in. "I happen to know that someone leaked copies of several of those texts to Mundania, including that one, so a whole bunch of people must have seen it!

And as I said, him too! Now this one had possibilities," he said, bringing up the doll. "You ever been in someone else's body, bumpkin?" "No, not exactly that way—

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.

The reason for the greater number of crosstown streets than up- and downtown avenues was self-evident to planners of the early nineteenth century but might not be so obvious to us today—intra-Manhattan commerce flowed east and west. In the days before railroads, dirigibles, and airplanes, the preeminent form of long-distance transportation and hauling was by water, and the piers and wharves along the East River had to link up with those along the Hudson if commerce was to flourish.