Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Pearcey

The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

Kim Harrison

she had given me a piece of what made her life sane.

Ned Rorem

The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

Neil Armstrong

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

Paloma Picasso

A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.

Paul Celan

They've healed me to pieces.

Kelly Corrigan

I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.

Armistead Maupin

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life

Quentin Tarantino

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

Minoru Yamasaki

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

Terry Pratchett

She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.

Leonard Maltin

Hitchcock's murder set-pieces are so potent, they can galvanize (and frighten) even a viewer who's seen them before!

Leonard Nimoy

Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.

Shel Silverstein

Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece I'm lookin' for my missin' piece Hi-dee-ho, here I go, Lookin' for my missin' piece

Natalie Goldberg

After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.

Josh McDermitt

I like to be surprised by life; it's a good thing to search for the puzzle pieces.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

John Keegan

Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob and left him drained of ... energy.

Kobe Bryant

I'm more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It's just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

Kevin Hart

I'm not Russell Crowe. I'm not going to do a period piece.

Radha Mitchell

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

Lennox Lewis

The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh.

Lara St. John

The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.

Lara Spencer

I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.

Larenz Tate

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

Theresa Grentz

When you have Jessica Davenport in the middle, with some very, very good shooters around her and a good point guard, they have the pieces

Lauren Conrad

I love wearing designer pieces with something I found at Target.

Lauren Conrad

I wouldn't include a piece in my collection that I wouldn't wear personally.

Juliette Lewis

With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.

Karl Lagerfeld

The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.

Kate Mara

I've always wanted to do a period piece.

Emily Procter

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

Elliott Carter

Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.