Pieces famous quotes
04-23-2025
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Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
-- A. A. Milne -
The melody is generally what the piece is all about.
-- Aaron Copland -
I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
-- Abbie Cornish -
When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
-- Abdallah II -
A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.
-- Abel Ferrara -
I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
-- Abel Korzeniowski -
No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
-- Adam Hochschild -
The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.
-- Adrian Cronauer -
That's what we do on 'Entourage.' We embed ourselves in legitimate authentic moments so wherever the action is happening, we're taking pieces from that red carpet.
-- Adrian Grenier -
Lingerie is one of the most important pieces of your wardrobe. You can have a wardrobe malfunction if you dont choose the right thing to wear underneath!
-- Adriana Lima -
Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
-- Adrienne Clarkson -
Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.
-- Adrienne Clarkson -
Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.
-- Aileen Fisher -
Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces
-- Akiba Rubinstein -
The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.
-- Akshay Kumar -
I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else
-- Alan Ladd -
I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.
-- Alan Shepard -
There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.
-- Alanis Morissette -
How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
-- Albert Einstein -
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.
-- Alejandro Amenabar -
I dont make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: everything. Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.
-- Alex Ferguson -
When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!
-- Alexander Calder -
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
-- Alexander Herzen -
Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.
-- Alexander McQueen -
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.
-- Alexander Wang -
I've seen so many period pieces in my life, I really enjoy them so much, a lot of my favorite movies are period pieces.
-- Alexis Bledel -
If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.
-- Alfred Brendel -
To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history....
-- Alfred Kazin -
We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by demand or supply.
-- Alfred Marshall -
I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.
-- Ali MacGraw -
[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels illuminating a history we think we know and understand so that after we've read it we'll never forget its truths.
-- Ali Smith -
My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.
-- Alice Temperley -
I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day!
-- Alicia Sacramone -
That's cool." Hale nodded, unfazed. "But just so you know, that"---he pointed to the piece of metal peeking out from behind the stage---"is a Hurst 5,000 PSI hydraulic spreader-cutter, more commonly know as the Jaws of Life." "So?" "So I'm not a normal boy.
-- Ally Carter -
It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.
-- Ally Condie -
I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.
-- Amanda Burton -
I don't know if I've owned a piece of technology that I hated - I don't think I would have owned it then.
-- Amber Heard -
When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.
-- Amber Heard -
Only love can break a heart into so many pieces. -Risika(In The Forest Of The Night)
-- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes -
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.
-- Amos Oz -
It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.
-- Anatoly Karpov -
One must cook a piece of meat a thousand times before one begins to truly understand it.
-- Andre Soltner -
Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.
-- Andrea Gibson -
I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.
-- Andrew Bird -
In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver. . . . Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corruption in any country before?
-- Andrew Jackson -
Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one.
-- Andrew Tobias -
It depends. When it's the right scenario, it's just as stimulating and just as exciting for me. It's just a question of finding a piece of material that lights a fire under you.
-- Andy Garcia -
Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.
-- Andy Grove -
The most beautiful pieces of art come from the ugliest situations.
-- Andy Mineo -
A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.
-- Andy Samberg -
Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.
-- Angela Cartwright -
Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'
-- Angus Young -
She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.
-- Ann Brashares -
Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.
-- Ann-Marie MacDonald -
Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement.
-- Anna Quindlen -
There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.
-- Anna Sui -
I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.
-- Anne Dudley -
A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.
-- Anthony Shadid -
Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconnected or chaotic.
-- Anthony Storr -
In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish that is their strength.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.
-- Anton Webern -
I have one piece of advice for you: sleep your way to the top.
-- Arianna Huffington -
The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.
-- Aristotle -
I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life
-- Armistead Maupin -
Strategically important points should be overprotected. If the pieces are so engaged, they get their regard in the fact that they will then find themselves well posted in every respect.
-- Aron Nimzowitsch -
The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary
-- Aron Nimzowitsch -
To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture in completion.
-- Arthur Fry -
To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.
-- Arthur Koestler -
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.
-- Arthur Quiller-Couch -
I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much.
-- Artur Schnabel -
I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich' or 'North Country.' They were both so amazing and so inspiring. I would love to touch someone in the way their performances touched me.
-- Ashley Greene -
I like to play around with mixing high-end with more affordable pieces.
-- Ashley Madekwe -
I like pieces that have everyday appeal and can be worn anywhere!
-- Ashley Madekwe -
Chess is not Mathematics, where ten is always more than one; in chess the King with a pawn can beat opponent's King with all pieces if they are placed badly.
-- Ashot Nadanian -
Katalyst is a merger of three industries. A piece of us is connected to ad agencies. Because we get the complex overlay of the social Web, we know how to engage an audience and how to make entertainment for the social Web. And we know how to gain and activate and retain an audience. So we create social networks for brands.
-- Ashton Kutcher -
Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.
-- Audre Lorde -
The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
-- Audre Lorde -
The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.
-- August Strindberg -
I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
I've always worn a lot of Ralph Lauren, and plaid shirts in general have been a signature piece for me. With plaid, you can look super-relaxed or you can look a bit dressed up.
-- Avicii -
A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
-- B. F. Skinner -
We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
-- Barack Obama -
I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.
-- Barbara Boxer -
you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
-- Barbara Kingsolver
