Piece In Quotes

#1. I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Soren Kierkegaard

#2. To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.

Audre Lorde

#3. To show them that I'm more than just a piece in their Games?" I say.

Suzanne Collins

#4. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way ... to show the Capitol they don't own me. That I'm more than just a piece in their Games.

Suzanne Collins

#5. The art of chess is in knowing which is the most valuable piece in play, then having the courage to sacrifice it for the win.

Thomm Quackenbush

#6. A man who eats his words is a man who lacks what it takes to speak his piece in this day and age, and in time to come.

Anyaele Sam Chiyson

#7. When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece.

Howard Staunton

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

Oliver Harris

#9. I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.

William H Gass

#10. That the work of a drinker who had no intention of stopping drinking should become a major propaganda piece in the campaign for Prohibition is surely one of the ironies in the history of alcohol.

Jack London

#11. I don't like streaming. I hate all that crap. I'd rather be a fan and have the piece in front of you where you could read the liner notes and everything about it instead of just consume. Enjoy it that way. It's just a digital file.

Charlie Benante

#12. To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach.

Bill Sienkiewicz

#13. The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.

John Green

#14. Every decorative piece in this house is my feeling, my choice.

Connie Stevens

#15. And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#16. Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.

Terry Brooks

#17. It was the fact that she was in every piece, in every corner, on every shelf. She was everywhere, reminding me how much in love with her I was.

Fisher Amelie

#18. People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

Anna Friel

#19. I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can't own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I.

Suzanne Collins

#20. It was a puzzle, a dark and lonely one, and if I were a piece in this puzzle, I did not know where it belonged. I needed to put myself aside, just for a little while, until I saw where I might fit in.

Lemony Snicket

#21. The acting thing is so beyond my control. Acting isn't mine. You're like a tiny piece in this big, corporate mechanism that needs chemistry and divine intervention.

Sandra Bullock

#22. We come from a sensory-overload culture, and so we wonder if one guy on drums and one guy dancing around is enough. Adding guys was something we always were curious about. We decided for this run specifically to stay a two-piece. In the future, we definitely could add members.

Tyler Joseph

#23. When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece ... in order to win.

Lionel Suggs

#24. I've never written a hard journalism piece in my life. I've never wanted to do that.

Laurence Shames

#25. There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

Dan Jenkins

#26. Life is something like a remarkable, exciting puzzle. It comes piece by piece in packages marked days.

John Powell

#27. I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

Brian Ferneyhough

#28. Another trick - calculated to lure a different, more sophisticated customer - was to bury a piece in the back of the store, reverse the vacuum cleaner over it (instant antiquity!) and allow the nosy customer to ferret it out on his or her own - look,

Donna Tartt

#29. Never despise a pawn. If it succeeds in crossing the board safely, it becomes a queen - the most powerful piece in the game.

Ellen Renner

#30. Tis useful nonetheless, now and then, to regard Politics here, as the greater American Question in Miniature, - in the way that Chess represents war, - with Governor Penn a game-piece in the form of the King.

Thomas Pynchon

#31. At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!

Abraham Lincoln

#32. My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.

Philip Morrison

#33. This was the missing piece in the puzzle. The secret of wood that bound matter together was the Yang-Mills filed, not the geometry of Einstein. It appeared as though this, and not geometry, was the central lesson of physics.

Michio Kaku

#34. You must not have played chess in a while. The king is the weakest piece in the game." He gave Justin a level look. "The queen's the strongest.

Richelle Mead

#35. Another force to contend with. Another power player who has decided to use me as a piece in her games,

Suzanne Collins

#36. Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.

Margaret Atwood

#37. It was more like the final piece in a puzzle: Even if it's missing, one can know its shape from the blank space it's meant to fill.

Steve Hockensmith

#38. The lessons learned in journalism also apply. Writing for NPR has taught me to cut a piece in half and then in half again - without losing the essence. Apply that to the swollen prose of a bulky novel and you might reveal a beautiful work.

Julianna Baggott

#39. I recall a most ingenious piece in a Wisconsin quarterly some years ago in which 'The Recognitions' ' debt to 'Ulysses' was established in such minute detail I was doubtful of my own firm recollection of never having read 'Ulysses.

William Gaddis

#40. Even if I win, what will my future hold? Can I put "saved world" on a college application? If I fulfil my destiny next week, where do I go from there? A Where Are They Now pity piece in some Greek god trash rag?

Tellulah Darling

#41. Determining who the members of your audience are is the most important piece in the business puzzle.

Cendrine Marrouat

#42. Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Paul Chambers, Bill Evans, and Jimmy Cobb playing "All Blues," a moody, blues form piece in 6/8, off the 1959 album Kind of Blue.

Blake Crouch

#43. Sarah Palin had a big op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, and she said she's against death panels. And I thought, 'Really? She's the one who pulled the plug on the McCain campaign.'

David Letterman

#44. We just have to sort through the junk. You know, like organising a jumbled box of beads. All we have to do is put each piece in its proper place, and we'll be able to see what we have.

Janice Peacock

#45. If I really like the smell of something - a piece of tar or my goddaughter's plastic doll - I put a tiny piece in a bottle with a label. I keep them in a fridge in my bathroom.

Mika.

#46. I wouldn't include a piece in my collection that I wouldn't wear personally.

Lauren Conrad

#47. The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.

Karl Lagerfeld

#48. If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.

Dave Van Ronk

#49. He was a tiny piece in a gigantic puzzle. But instead of having one fixed shape, his shape kept changing. And so - of course - he couldn't fit anywhere. As he tried to sort out where he belonged, he was also given a set amount of time to gather the scattered pages of the timpani section of a score.

Haruki Murakami

#50. He tottered in. In a few moments he came out, hair piece in place. But the haggardness of his face made it look more spurious than before.

John D. MacDonald

#51. With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.

Aaron Ruell

#52. Tonight, everyone's focus is on my art, but my focus is on her. She's the most interesting piece in this entire room.

Colleen Hoover

#53. It's an awful lot to take in, this elaborate plan in which I was a piece, just as I was meant to be a piece in the Hunger Games. Used without consent, without knowledge. At least in the Hunger Games, I knew I was being played with.

Suzanne Collins

#54. I wrote an editorial piece in 'Science' about the nightly data release and how I thought it was bad for science as a field, I think a few years before Celera was formed.

Craig Venter

#55. She didn't really enjoy reading but she liked how the books were clues. Each one a piece in a puzzle. Even when they didn't fit together, they revealed a little more about what kind of picture she was making.

Max Barry

#56. It was only a little piece of knowledge but it felt as shiny and solid as a new twenty-cent piece in my hand to know i could find the thing that was wrong.

Karen Foxlee

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

Santiago Martinez Delgado

#58. It's like reading a bad newspaper or a bad piece in a magazine.
(on Tom Wolfe)

John Irving

#59. Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time to go and give back to people who don't have the opportunities I have. It's a very important thing to me.

Ashley Greene

#60. With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#61. Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.

William Ernest Henley

#62. 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.

Dagmara Dominczyk

#63. Because those four days in the mountains, they changed us. I gave you a piece of me. And you must have given me a piece of yourself, too, because you wouldn't have come here otherwise. You would have let go. I can't let go of you, Britt. And I don't want you to let go of me.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#64. Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.

Richard Schiff

#65. Not that pain is the worst thing in the universe. Interesting things happen when you adapt pain for your own. This thing you were prepared to spend your life flinching from is suddenly just another piece of information.

Shelley Jackson

#66. It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.

Neil Patrick Harris

#67. The principal function of form is to advance our understanding. It is the organization of a piece which helps the listener to keep the idea in mind, to follow its development, its growth, its elaboration, its fate.

Arnold Schoenberg

#68. Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?

Mary E. Pearson

#69. When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.

Al Goldstein

#70. There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#71. constitute a horror story wherein the villains of the piece stole power from a stable governance system in order to cast the population of the world into an ongoing lab experiment with no plan or boundary. A dismal science.

Warren Ellis

#72. Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

Wendell Berry

#73. Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

Fernando Pessoa

#74. There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

Peter Capaldi

#75. I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot.

Laurie Graham

#76. I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

Yo-Yo Ma

#77. There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.

Wesley W. Bates

#78. I surround myself with inspirational quotations. This easy-to-follow piece of advice has played a huge role in my being able to get past my own fears and insecurities throughout my entrepreneurial career.

Blake Mycoskie

#79. Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family.

Stephen King

#80. My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.

Vanessa Carlton

#81. The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.

Ben Folds

#82. Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.

Charles Bukowski

#83. When Wellington Mara died in 2005, he took a piece of the organization's soul with him - one that fans, players, and staff still miss.

Dave Buscema

#84. I stomp through the water in a tight circle, kicking against the salt spray, wanting to pull the world apart piece by piece.

Carrie Ryan

#85. You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

Henry Miller

#86. There was a piece of paper crumpled in the tight fist of the man. Porter opened the
fingers carefully and extracted the paper. On it, in a shaky script, were the words: Tell
them I killed the kid.

Sarah Margolis Pearce

#87. 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.

Rod Serling

#88. I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.

Dagmara Dominczyk

#89. I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit torn in bits so that the body follows.

Jeanette Winterson

#90. I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn. I don't think that there is anything bad in such a feeling; no artist or musician is indifferent to the reactions of the public.

Mikhail Tal

#91. You don't want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#92. The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.

Mahatma Gandhi

#93. But even this piece of flattery couldn't distract me from the fact that I was in the center of the Fae realm, blind, stark naked, and without the slightest idea of what was going on.

Patrick Rothfuss

#94. It was the most convulted, ridiculous piece of logic I'd heard in awhile ... It was something I would have come up with.

Richelle Mead

#95. Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'

Edward Abbey

#96. No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

Gail Sheehy

#97. When you introduce things that most readers have never seen before into a piece of fiction, you have to describe them with as much precision and in as much detail as possible. What you can eliminate from fiction is the description of things that most readers have seen.

Haruki Murakami

#98. Luke picked up a piece of paper lying on the seat. "Camden Hills Avenue in the Badlands Golf Club." Luke chuckled. "Going to find a criminal in the Badlands. It kind of has an ironic ring to it.

Amanda Carlson

#99. To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

Victor Hugo

#100. It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a 'hidden premium.' It simply adds to the health care cost burden.

Dave Obey