Best 1783 quotes in «pieces quotes» category

A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.

After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

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

Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!

A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

A good piece of art raises questions.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

A good piece of art should make a revolution inside you.

A hexagonal piece of cheese is a lot better than a square piece of cheese.

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it.

A hockey team is like a puzzle. Every piece is vital.

A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset - its flexibility.

Air you breathe is bad for your lungs so you've got to careful and don't overdue any bad air. Too much pot, too much anything is not good. Your lung is a piece of flesh, a piece of bone. You can injure it.

A kind word is no substitute for a piece of herring or a bag of oats.

A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.

Alec looked down at the shattered pieces in disbelief. “You BROKE my PHONE.” Jace shrugged. “Guys don’t let other guys keep calling other guys. Okay, that came out wrong. Friends don’t let friends keep calling their exes and hanging up. Seriously. You have to stop.” Alec looked furious. “So you broke my brand new phone? Thanks a lot.” Jace smiled serenely and lay back on the grass. “You’re welcome.

Alex took a piece of my heart with him when he left.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.

All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because our basis is spoken word.

All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents the album.

Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.

All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.

Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills

Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember. Everyone, sooner or later, gets a thorough schooling in brokenness. The question becomes what to do with the pieces?

A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma—that push and pull—is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make.

A lot of times, you're circling around a lot of things, and then you find that one person, or that little piece of dialogue, and it doesn't always have to be in person.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to it.

Always remember, the person we’re really working for is the person who’s restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He’s the one we want to impress.

A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea malefactordiesweetly was only belonging toher husband.

A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility.

A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.

And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.

And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.

...and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.

And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later.

And I try to piece the puzzle of the universe, Split an eight of shrooms just so I could see the universe !