Prepared Piece

Famous quotes containing the words prepared and/or piece:

“All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

“You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)