Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Jones

We saw them getting little pieces of mussels that got broken.

Alejandro Amenabar

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.

Douglas Rushkoff

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

Dodie Smith

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

David Christian

I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me".

Ambrose Bierce

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Alfred Brendel

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 de Vigny

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Anatoly Karpov

It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.

Dan Hawkins

I should make a donation to their favorite charity, because I didn't give 'em their money's worth, that's for sure,

Jane Addams

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

Eduardo Galeano

Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps.

Tim Hides

Everyone's having a good time ? it's for charity. But the firemen are probably a little upset right now.

Tim Chiodo

We all liked working for this charity and we liked basketball. So we put the two together and started a tournament.

Dorothy Day

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.

Michael Bloomberg

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

Mark Twain

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

Paris Hilton

No one writes about my charity work, they'd rather write about me dancing on a table, which I've never done.

Nelson Mandela

No stone will be left unturned to establish fully what the causes were and where responsibility lies,

Steve Simmons

Any kind of glitch causes problems that send tremors through the whole industry.

Allen Wallace

A player makes a name for himself and then causes younger players to look and see what can be accomplished. The younger players start focusing on being like one of the older guys.

Brigham Young

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Lleyton Hewitt

There's no doubt in my mind that it's not the greatest surface for injuries either. I think it causes a lot of friction on your body.

Elizabeth Ward

The death rate overall has fallen considerably. Even though we've made progress in reducing the death rate overall, we actually have two causes of death that are continuing to rise.

Chuck Klosterman

But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.

Anselm of Canterbury

But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.

Simon Sinek

All these companies that grew to any sizable proportions were all founded with a belief or a cause bigger than their products or services. It was their products or services that helped them bring that cause to life.