Quotes about piece
pieces oneself
To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.... Alfred Kazin
pieces stubborn world
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
pieces networking hardware
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. Douglas Rushkoff
pieces made feels
The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon. Dodie Smith
pieces size overwhelmed
If you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces. Chuck Close
pieces kind life-is
Life is messy. Would that every puzzle piece fell into place, every word was kind, every accident happy, but such is not the case. Life is messy Christopher Moore
pieces may way
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". David Christian
pieces world entertainment
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer. David Antin
pieces goods humans
I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods. Curt Flood
pieces world littles
A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it. Corita Kent
pieces patient bones
A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants. Ambrose Bierce
pieces tradition should
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
pieces paper firsts
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 Alfred de Vigny
pieces chess cost
It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively. Anatoly Karpov
pieces paid
A freelance is one who gets paid by the word -- per piece or perhaps. Robert Benchley
pieces driven one-time
At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all. Richard MacDonald
pieces unexpected coincidence
Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others. Timothy Leary
pieces sound bigs
The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought. Robert Barry
pieces lasts influence
I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
pieces stones rays
When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a stone, and I thought, 'Oh my God, if he doesn't like it I'm dead.' ... And then finally, after 25 minutes he started to talk back to the screen. I heard him say 'That's right. That's the truth.' . Taylor Hackford
pieces artwork know-how
I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal. Swizz Beatz
pieces world mouths
From the moment you put a piece of bread in your mouth you are part of the world. Who grew the wheat? Who made the bread? Where did it come from? You are in relationship with all who brought it to the table. We are least separate and most in common when we eat and drink. Thomas Merton
pieces earth building
A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it. Richie Benaud
pieces want
Everyone wants to get a piece of me. Tiger Woods
pieces tess-of-the-d-urbervilles pity
O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again! Thomas Hardy
pieces popularity faded
Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date. Victor Hugo
pieces kissing-him wells
Well you are a piece of work aren't you? Suzanne Collins
pieces break millions
What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?
pieces riches silver
When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries? Sophie Swetchine
pieces week stage
I love jewellery, but it's something I go through stages with. I have my go-to pieces that I will bring out and wear for weeks at a time. Tamsin Egerton
pieces earth atman
The Atman alone is eternal. Hospitals will tumble down. Railroad givers will all die. This earth will be blown to pieces, suns wiped out. The Atman endures for ever. Swami Vivekananda
pieces alive kicking
All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it. Steve Reich
pieces paper liquid
The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like a liquid that you can manipulate at will. In the old days, when I typed, every piece of typing paper was like cast in concrete. Sue Grafton