Best 1783 quotes in «pieces quotes» category

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

One colleague who's been in the industry longer than I had been gave me a valuable piece of advice. "Stay close to the facts and observe things fully and report. Then you can be a mediocre journalist." I held onto his words when I worked and I've been following that advice for 16 years.

One fan sent me one tooth, so I made a necklace out of it. But then I found a bunch of my baby teeth, and started realizing I would love to wear a piece of my fans' bodies on me.

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.

One must cook a piece of meat a thousand times before one begins to truly understand it.

One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.

One of my keys to success is a lot of pillows. I feel like a lot of pillows is important to relax each piece of your body.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

One of the more dispiriting things I think about endless touring is hearing the same piece of music over and over again and I end up feeling like a fraud.

One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

One of those things that I find hard to dispose of is my attitude to album sequencing, the layout of the pieces.

One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.

One piece of graffiti doesn't mean much. Forty pieces of graffiti might mean something... It's all about connecting the dots.

One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art.

Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

Only love can break a heart into so many pieces. -Risika(In The Forest Of The Night)

Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.

On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland called U2. They seemed like nice fellows and they sounded pretty good, but we didn’t keep in touch. They’re probably taxi drivers and accountants by now.

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

on that piece of white paper, sam wrote, "write about me sometime." and i typed something back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. i just typed. "i will.

On the Web you have to sum up what your piece of content is in one link or nobody is going to watch it. That's the same thing I've been hearing from TV executives - is we need a program that you can have on the side of a bus and someone can watch it go by and get what the show is and want to watch it.

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.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.

Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people.

Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.

Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconnected or chaotic.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

People are like, Hey, Jeff, lemme tell you... I'm like, Hold on, let me get a pen and a piece of paper.

People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works.

People can be chaos but it's hard to fit it into some creative piece that you made. It's hard.

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first room and it's dark, completely dark. You stumble around, bumping into the furniture. Gradually, you learn where each piece of furniture is. And finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch and turn it on. Suddenly, it's all illuminated and you can see exactly where you were. Then you enter the next dark room.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?

Pieces of intelligence, scraps of intelligence...you run down leads and you run down leads, and you hope that sometimes it works.

Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.

People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a painting but a piece of the artist.

People may say 'What can I do? I'm only one person.' But we've proven that when we come together demonstrate, and speak our piece, there is no way the power structure can avoid being attentive.

People who have ordered my pieces to be removed should have asked themselves before if they were artworks or vandalism.