Best 1783 quotes in «pieces quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.

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 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 !

And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.

And my piece of advice is...don't flirt with any of the female instructors. They all have access to weapons bigger than yours.

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

Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.

And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.

And to us, we're more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.

And that's what got me to the piano, that's what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and a hope to have something by the end of the day.

And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it.

And we debate whether it's a - some woman's right to tear you out of there a piece at a time! C'mon! You have a God-given right to live. And of all places, inside your mother - what in the world happened to us?

And when you're actually finally done, and you still got 5 pieces left over, all they wanna do is play with the box!

An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.

An object imbued with intent — it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent — it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.

Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.

Another piece of clarification around playing games at a friend's house - should you choose to play your game at your friend's house, there is no fee to play that game while you are signed in to your profile.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn't define a person. It won't tell you who I am.

Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece of crude, contemptible, adolescent, anti-American wickedness, when, in fact, he would have succeeded, as prophetic sentry, where Orwell failed.

Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.

Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

Any type of commercialization or, like I said, watering that idea down would be so damaging and frankly, be pretty uninspiring to me, because the fact that every piece is like my dream thing that I just can't get enough of and am just so excited to wear, is just the whole point of it.

A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.

Anyway, I'm digressing, but this is just kind of this 10-and-a-half-minute, ambient - you hear cicadas and birds and the wind outside and crickets as I'm swelling the piece. I could never do that on a pop record. I could, but why would I want to be agitating?

A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.

A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.

A piece of the miracle process has been reserved for each of us

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.

A piece of cloth that is called "linen" has more validity than calling you and me "black" or "negro." "Cotton" has more validity as cotton than yours and my being "black.