Best 1783 quotes in «pieces quotes» category

The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

The most amazing moments are when something horrible is about to happen or has just happened. The iceberg falling into the ocean. That aching moment. You can see the pieces, you can see how they fit together, but you can't put them back together.

The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

The most efficient way to memorise a piece is to use the one which proceeds in an error free manner

The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on.

Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.

The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

Then his heart, now broken into a thousand pieces, slowly began to turn to ice.

Then on the other piece of paper, list all the people you know who are taking more than they're adding. Include people from the past.

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

The number one worst piece of horsemanship on earth is violence.

The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked.

The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it'll be paraded round Sotheby's by people wearing white gloves.

The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.

The only thing that can break a piece of Valentine candy is another piece of Valentine candy.

The other day someone left a piece of plasticine in my dressing room. I didn't know what to make of it.

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

The pay window will be: you can choose how and when you see, whether you see it on Comcast or Warner's Cable delivery system or Sky in the UK or you can buy it through Apple, or you might even buy it directly from the studio's site. Who knows? But that will be it. You'll go to the cinema and you'll find a way of digitally interacting with the piece; you'll either buy it or rent it or whatever.

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

The Patriot Act is the most egregious piece of legislation to ever leave Congress since the Alien and Sedition Acts, John Ashcroft and every member of Congress who voted for it should be indicted.

The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

The plain, unvarnished truth is that public education is a shoddy, fraudulent piece of goods sold t to the public at an astronomical price. It's time the American consumer knew the extent of the fraud which is victimizing millions of children each year.

The plane as an object has been a huge effort to make. It is a sculpture, a technological invention, a piece of aviation culture. But really, it only exists to be inserted into a variety of landscapes, to be a catalyst, to offset them.

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music.

The poster child of Web 2.0 is Flickr.com. Personalization is a key piece of Web 2.0.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.

The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.

The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after them Gordon was a piece of cake.

The problem was that I'd never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn't allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests that Jane and I wear wet suits.

The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?

There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice.

There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.

There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.

There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread

There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you might think of as leaning in a tonal direction but it's very hard to register a pitch as, say, the sixth degree of a scale, whereas in much of my music I think that's often relatively easy to do.

There are only two pieces of pussy you're gonna get in your entire life, that's your first and your last.

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?

There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry.

There are several key pieces to keeping audiences engaged, and the evolution of that. One of them, mostly importantly really, is to have a brand that has purpose and value.

There are several key pieces to keeping audiences engaged, and the evolution of that. One is a content-first strategy because you need to provide the best possible product, no matter what your brand is, it's got to be a great, incredible product first.