Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lukas Foss

As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?

Mahatma Gandhi

If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity

Gail Carriger

Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information it contained, ate it.

Jo Brand

I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.

John Cage

My favorite piece of music is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

James McAvoy

I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920.

Rudy Gay

All the pieces of the puzzle are together now.

Michael Gregory

all the pieces of evidence, all the statements that have been reviewed, all the witnesses that have been spoken to.

Gustav Mahler

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

Jim Rohn

Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day.

It's just a well-written play. There's not a lot we can do other than to just do it. It's a piece of music.

Sebastian Thrun

This car, to me, is really a piece of history.

It's not humanly possible to have every piece of plastic and scrap of treated wood out of the waste.

It's a piece of legislation that comes out of the blue.

It's a really important piece of the puzzle for us.

We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,

Jim Morris

When we got out of college, we wanted to save the world. And now, we are able to save a little piece of it.

The second piece is the volume, (which tells you) how many shares were actually part of this trade. The third part is the price at which the trade was transacted.

Now, everyone wants a piece of the pie,

Summer Phoenix

I've never had a diamond before, and now I've got a diamond surrounded by other diamonds and diamonds in places where, frankly, you don't need diamonds at all, and I would have been happy with a piece of twine.

That's going to be a big piece of (the lawsuit).

Breakups, sales within pieces of the business, are off the table.

Turlock was a very seasoned team. We've only been going for about a week. I'm very proud of my guys. We're still putting the pieces of the puzzle together.

You can tear up a small piece of ground, but it can be a big headache.

W. S. Gilbert

We feel we have all the pieces of the puzzle here.

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

There's no silver bullet, there's no silver lining. But it's another piece of the puzzle we're trying to put together.

We've questioned everyone we could, ran down every lead, and we still have no answers. What can we do? There are pieces of these puzzles missing, and we just don't have them yet.

We've been steady, just like we have been. It's about putting the pieces together.

We just want a piece of the pie. That's all.

Anna Sui

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.

Richard King

I have done some short pieces that are not horror.

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.