Pieces Quotes

I'm inspired by good work. Whether it is a great performance by another actor, a piece of art, or someone doing something altruistic.

I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.

I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously.

The reason that the Croats want a state of their own is that they fear being cut into little pieces by the Serbs.

He wasn't sure exactly which day, but what's noteworthy about that is that is also before Valerie Plame is first identified in the Robert Novak piece that ran on Monday, July 14.

Women are much more comfortable making their own style rules now. They want pieces that will make their busy lives easier.

Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.

At the front of my home, in the garden, is a huge piece of clear quartz.

But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.

Because we are a conglomerate of our experiences - you take away any experience and you take away a piece of identity. You take away a piece of identity and we don't really know who we are.

The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

I don't do drugs, and so music very much gets me going. When I do something, I think, "If it was a piece of music, what would it be?"

Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could think was how I was going to reinvent the experience into a piece of art.

I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively

I am always looking for some clue, some easily missed sign that might just be the missing piece in the puzzle.

There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.

Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought "What a piece of crap?"

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piece of himself that's being turned down.

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.

See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone’s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest.

Santiago Martinez Delgado made a Master piece in the Colombian Congress building worthy of admiration.

Within each piece, I create an intriguing balance between jewelry and the body, and an intensity which draws others to it.

Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece I'm lookin' for my missin' piece Hi-dee-ho, here I go, Lookin' for my missin' piece

I can't remember a single year of my life when I haven't made a piece of theatre.

Less is more. I truly believe in buying a few pieces with better construction.

I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture.

I see a city in the desert lies The vanity of an ancient king But the city lies in broken pieces While the wind howls and the vultures sing

Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.

I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed.

Practical storage pieces are great if you have a basement or a garage. But when you actually live with them day in and day out, they should be beautiful to look at.

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.

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.

The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it's asset allocation.

This early piece of the morning is mine.

Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a prospective owner.

Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece.

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

Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.

Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.

A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy.

I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.

Two broken pieces making a whole.

When I feel myself getting overwhelmed, I take a deep breath and eat a piece of chocolate.