Best 1783 quotes in «pieces quotes» category

I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk all day, put all sorts of diagrams on the board, but a habit is not going to change. It's a conditional reflex, created by a repetitive act.

I bought a cheap piece of land... It was on someone else’s property.

I came up to New York at 20 with a suitcase and a ceramic tiger. That was my one piece of furniture and I wanted to save it.

I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!

I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in the '70s that pieces I wrote would sound great the first time I listened to them and then on repeated hearings they sounded older and older until what seemed exciting and vibrant on first listening became stale.

I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.

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

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.

I can't remember a single year of my life when I haven't made a piece of theatre.

I can't imagine myself doing something like 'Narnia' again. I would love to do something with Ridley Scott, you know, some action/adventure or something like that. But I'd also love to do a dramatic piece. It's really just whatever you read and take to.

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it`s a conversation piece.

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

I congratulate you both on a fine piece of work which I am sure will ultimately prove of importance. I am personally very much interested in your results... In the past I have tried a number of experiments... but without any success.

I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who plays a Schubert sonata through his whole lifetime - if you listen to Rubenstein or Horowitz playing their repertoire later in their life, you understand the richness with which they play that music, and how differently they must have played it when they were younger.

I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.

I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

I definitely have a piece of tape over my computer at home.

I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.

I designed every piece {of furniture} for a different reason and purpose, so I love each one.

I did a lot of thrift and vintage. I would mix those pieces into some of the more inexpensive items from Express, Gap, Old Navy, and Clothestime.

I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece.

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

I did buy a new piece of furniture so it's like, "Oh, that's something new." But generally my goals are made in the fall.

I did want to feel like life's all of one piece.

I didn't give any instruction to the video, because it was a new medium. I didn't know what to tell him; it was so young. I did the piece and immediately after the piece, I wanted to see the material.

I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day.

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.

I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

I'd like a nice piece of salmon that's not too pink inside and yet isn't too dry or crisp either.

Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece.

I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

I do give them to you," he announced. "Of my free will. Because this is my sword." He laid a hand on Arisa's shoulder. "And Weasle is my shield. What you hold are only pieces of iron.

I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.

I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.

I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth.

I don't consider myself bossy, but I do know what I want. You know, I have a gut feeling about a piece of material, but I've never envisioned myself as the director on top of the hill with a megaphone in my hand, screaming at 1,000 extras.

I don't feel any pressure to lose weight - and in any case, if I didn't have my food I'd be a nasty piece of work and wouldn't be able to function.

I don't know about ground rules; but I create the world that arrives with the characters or situation or voice in my head that instigates the piece, whatever form it may take.

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

I don't have favourites, I think, when you play, you have to be like a prostitute, you have to love the piece you are playing. Even if you don't like it, you have to play it as if you would like it. Then you are a good interpreter.

I don't know if I've owned a piece of technology that I hated - I don't think I would have owned it then.

I don't know what happened. One minute, I was dreamin' about a fat piece of George Clooney and a hot date with some brown sugar pound cake, and the next thing I knew, the house was coming down on us.

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

I don't like the phrase having it all. It implies we're being greedy, like "have a second piece of pie.

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.