Best 1783 quotes in «pieces quotes» category

You need to break a problem into pieces and do what is scheduled for each time slot

You need to think about the month, you need to plan the day, you need to take your elephant and divide into pieces and eat a slice a day

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

Your glass seems like it will always be half full even it falls down and shatters to pieces

79 senators, including that great conservative Elizabeth Warren, said they didn't like the medical device tax, so we will go at that law - which in my view is the single worst piece of legislation passed in the last half century - in every way that we can.

360 deals are the new things of the industry. It's not about selling records; it's about selling T-shirts, getting a piece of your publishing, getting a piece of your touring, and all these other kind of properties.

A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood or fancy. This rare harmony between object and user arises from the minimal skills required to manipulate a bound sequence of pages. Each piece of paper embodies a corresponding instant of time which remains frozen until liberated by the act of turning a page.

About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me.

A cloak of invisibility? This is a highly sensitive piece of field equipment. What does he think? Some warlock pulled it out of his armpit?

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.

Accessories are crucial. A great bag and a piece of statement jewelry are the fastest way to elevate an otherwise understated look.

A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

A breath of steam trickles out, filled with the sobs of a grown woman breaking into girl-sized pieces.

A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

A fellow with the smallest mind is the one who is usually most willing to give someone a piece of it.

A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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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 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 piece of art raises questions.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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 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.