Best 1783 quotes in «pieces quotes» category

When I heard We Are the World do a techno version of one of my songs, I didn't know the word techno, but I said, "That percussion is astounding, will you help me do a piece?" Nobody said, "Techno isn't allowed for you.

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.

When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.

When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it.

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.

When I wrote that [Donald] Trump piece, I had this uncomfortable experience of sensing a lot of things that were nascent, that I couldn't quite articulate. And one of them was this move toward anti-intellectualism. An anti-love move, even.

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a stone, and I thought, 'Oh my God, if he doesn't like it I'm dead.' ... And then finally, after 25 minutes he started to talk back to the screen. I heard him say 'That's right. That's the truth.' .

When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.

When someone you love dies, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming.

when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.

When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often true of snapshots in which no pattern of salient shapes organizes the mass of vague and complex nuances.

When those people get up at the Grammys and say, "I thank God", I always imagine God going, "Oh, don't, please don't thank me for that one. Please, oh, that's an awful one! Don't thank me for that - that's a piece of crap !

When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.

When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction. The process of calling it into conscious awareness can change it, and now you're storing something that's different. We all do this, for example, by inadvertently adopting a story we've heard.

When the world around you is falling to pieces. Invite yourself into a new world that you have invented and can't be touched.

When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.

When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows.

When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.

When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.

When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.

When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction.

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?

When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past

When you finally find the courage to admit you have a problem, that's when you have some power over it. That's the first step. Otherwise you're just withering away, you're like a burning piece of paper getting smaller and smaller.

When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

When you hear a good traditional gospel song it makes you wanna go buy a three piece suit

When you finish a thing you ought to be able to say to yourself: 'There, I am willing to stand for that piece of work. It is not pretty well done; it is done as well as I can do it; done to a complete finish. I will stand for that. I am willing to be judged by it.'

When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

When you have Jessica Davenport in the middle, with some very, very good shooters around her and a good point guard, they have the pieces

When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

When you lose someone, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time.

When you reach a place where you feel blocked, lower your standards and keep on going. There is no possible way to do permanent damage to a piece of writing. You cannot ruin it. You can only make it a little better a little at a time.

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

When youre a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.

When you're doing an action set piece, it's very similar to choreography in a way because it's shot that way. It's meticulous how it's rehearsed. I mean, you have no idea.

When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are.

When you're living through it, though, especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn't the world, it's you, no piece seems little. It's all so big you think it can kill you. But it doesn't. Which is why the story goes on.

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

When you're writing for theater or TV, it's open-ended in scope. You can write 10 separate pieces that are really effective but have no place on a rock record or whatever.

When you trade, the key concern is not always the value of the pieces being exchanged, but what's left on the board.