Pieces Quotes

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!

But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.

Life is a puzzle. Every piece fits together to create who we are, what we do, how we feel. Every experience shapes us into who we will eventually become.

Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.

It's best to make your peace with change, before it makes pieces of you.

I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.'

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

I love sandwiches. Let's face it, life is better between two pieces of bread.

If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.

All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

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

The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind.

It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time.

The greatest determinant of greatness is going to be our ability to collaborate with others who have pieces of the puzzle we don't.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.

I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.

People who have ordered my pieces to be removed should have asked themselves before if they were artworks or vandalism.

In fact, all of us have a piece of Chernobyl in our bodies going back to 1986.

There is no such thing as a Difficult Piece. A piece is either impossible - or it is easy. The process whereby it migrates from one category to the other is known as practicing.

I don't see boundaries between styles, such as modern or contemporary. I've collected each piece from a different experience or period of my life.

I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.

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.

I have a three-piece suit. I’m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I’m probably the killer.

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

Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.

Lingerie is one of the most important pieces of your wardrobe. You can have a wardrobe malfunction if you dont choose the right thing to wear underneath!

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job

There is no demand for women engineers, as such, as there are for women doctors; but there's always a demand for anyone who can do a good piece of work.

You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.

China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all ... but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it.

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.

I wanted to make pictures that felt natural, that felt like seeing, that didn’t feel like taking something in the world and making a piece of art out of it.

We're not choosing the art, the art is choosing us. The pieces are choosing the walls where they hang.

Everyone carries with them at least one piece to someone else's puzzle.

You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.

The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

His best-known piece is probably his "Canon in D." He also has 'Hexachordium Apollonis', which is also quite famous.