Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Corigliano

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

Madeleine Stowe

In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.

Jim Morrison

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

Eric Davis

Most of the places I've been, I've been a main piece of the puzzle.

John Hockenberry

An object imbued with intent — it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent — it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.

Johann Georg Hamann

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.

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.

Maggie Stiefvater

Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted.

Joanne Froggatt

A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.

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.

All the pieces of the puzzle are right there for them.

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.

The more pieces you have to a process, the more expensive.

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

Charles Mackay

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Calista Flockhart

I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.

We're starting to get some of the puzzle pieces together.

Elizabeth Olsen

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

Benjamin Franklin

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

Bill Gates

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

These big pieces and headdresses, I see them more as abstractions than as subjects.

Barbara Kruger

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

Arthur Koestler

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.

Carson McCullers

Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.