Piece Of Quotes

#1. Life is a journey, but it's not about the places along the way, it's about the people that give you a piece of themselves.

Stavro Nashi

#2. Imagine you can tell YouTube you have an hour to watch TV, and it would give you programming based around what you have watched in the past, what your friends watched and recommended, what your favourite celebrities tweeted about, and on one piece of input from you about what mood you are in.

Salar Kamangar

#3. A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.

Jose Bergamin

#4. They say, they own a piece of land. I say, you don't even own your own body.

Vinita Kinra

#5. I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.

Tom Waits

#6. Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do.

Wallace D. Wattles

#7. Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

Walker Percy

#8. He stepped around Tamlin as if he were a piece of furniture and took my hand.

Sarah J. Maas

#9. He wanted an heir, a tiny piece of immortality.

James Patterson

#10. Each person seemed to have a destination, but Val was a piece of driftwood, spinning down a river, not even sure in what direction she was moving. But she knew how to make herself spin faster.

Holly Black

#11. The process of editing a piece of writing seems sometimes a lot like natural selection. Your efforts never really eliminate the mistakes. You just cause them to evolve into a sneakier, more robust breed.

John A. Ashley

#12. There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the length of time it takes to get a complicated piece of legislation through ... and the other was the irresponsibility of the press.

Jimmy Carter

#13. I was happy about different things. I was happy because someday I'd be walking across this bridge looking at this city, owning some piece of it, being valuable here.

Ned Vizzini

#14. Someone gave me a piece of advice once, my first manager Lucien Hold. He said, 'If you do stand-up about your own life, no one can steal it.' I always thought that was the best piece of advice.

Mike Birbiglia

#15. The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.

Lou Henry Hoover

#16. Creativity. Inspiration. We worship them here, Donald. They are our guidance, and we revere them. Do you understand? Revere them. So many people think that writers merely sit down and string together words and poof! a piece of writing. Not so!

David Bischoff

#17. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Thomas Browne

#18. GUIs tend to impose a large overhead on every single piece of software, even the smallest, and this overhead completely changes the programming environment. Small utility programs are no longer worth writing. Their functions, instead, tend to get swallowed up into omnibus software packages.

Neal Stephenson

#19. There is a piece of you that is still fighting this and I want to add a spark to that little ember and help you create a roaring fire of depression slaying badassery. You may feel numb and zombie-like, but you have not given up. We are still in this, friend. Let's get you back on track. In

Robert Duff

#20. Be happy, honey. No
one deserves it more. But don't forget ... I'm
keeping one little piece of your heart for myself.
And if you ever want it back..you know
where to find it.

Lisa Kleypas

#21. I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage.

David Cross

#22. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again.

Sarah Dessen

#23. When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic.
[As quoted on WritersServices, 6 March 2012]

Susanna Clarke

#24. I wouldn't want to do an average fashion line. I'd want it to be an amazing piece of art.

Rita Ora

#25. They gave him a little piece of raw meat. Rikki-tikki liked it immensely, and when it was finished he went out into the veranda and sat in the sunshine and fluffed up his fur to make it dry to the roots. Then he felt better.

Rudyard Kipling

#26. Now if you are told that some piece of information will come as a shock to you, the chances are that you will really feel shocked, even if the information itself isn't of the slightest importance.

Walter R. Brooks

#27. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

Alan Rickman

#28. The sculptor Frosty Myers and I met when we were bidding against each other at an auction. He's an eccentric, a liberal with a collection of rifles, and his stuff is big art. We share a love of tractors. I'm trading him one for a piece of art.

Mark Ruffalo

#29. Each piece of glass is another piece of myself I gave to him.
It's too bad I didn't keep any pieces for myself.

Amanda Grace

#30. And one day, if I see your smile on her face, maybe that'll keep me from feeling I've left a piece of my heart behind.

Rysa Walker

#31. Every piece of the globe has been conquered at least a handful of times." "And the conquerors promptly forgot that they stole it from someone else so that they could claim some sort of moral right to the land when someone else tried to take it away from them," I suggested.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#32. In this age people have become more loyal and attached to personal brands,individuals than companies, brands. [You get the emotional highs and lows, but real issues overlooked]. In a social media driven world, every piece of content we put out there can make or mar us

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#33. I love 'The Omen,' just as a piece of plotting.

Greg Rucka

#34. I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

Robert Wyatt

#35. Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconnected or chaotic.

Anthony Storr

#36. You don't give out trophies for losing. Trophies for sucking. That's a communist idea. You don't get a trophy for losing. You get a piece of pizza and you shut up. Trophies for losing? What the hell happened to us?

Christopher Titus

#37. The theater business is very much about "Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in April."

Harry Shearer

#38. Let me guess ... " said Mal. She popped a piece of candy into her mouth. "New class?" Doug nodded sheepishly.

Walt Disney Company

#39. I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we don't always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel.

Amy Bloom

#40. Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.

Twyla Tharp

#41. If we're sweeping up the station with a dustpan and brush, just when we've finished, someone will flick a cigarette butt or a piece of litter right on the spot where we've cleaned. There are too many self-assertive people out there.

No One

#42. Your life is a piece of clay; don't let anyone else mold it for you.

Lao-Tzu

#43. Every piece of that marvelous world was a silent tear.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#44. You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

Terry Pratchett

#45. You know the opinion of Cervantes? He said that reading a translation is like examining the back of a piece of tapestry.

Carl Sagan

#46. I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex.

Walter Bender

#47. If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.

Sam Neill

#48. In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.

Dorothy H Cohen

#49. A charming eccentric, a piece of blank paper on which the electorate could write its message: You other guys are so wasted that we decided to elect this fool for two years instead.

Stephen King

#50. I bought a piece of God, ground to dust and mixed with alcohol in a glass bottle the colour of molasses.

Craig Clevenger

#51. The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.

Abraham Kuyper

#52. You're a bastard," I said.
"Uhtred," he began, but could find nothing more to say.
"You're a piece of weasel-shit," I said, "you're an earsling."
"I'm a king," he said, trying to regain his dignity.
"So you're a royal piece of weasel-shit. An earsling on a throne.

Bernard Cornwell

#53. Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.

Astro Teller

#54. There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?

Ethan Coen

#55. It was like bouncing tennis balls off a mystery piece of furniture and deducing, from the direction in which the balls ricocheted, whether it was a chair or a table or a Welsh dresser.

Marcus Chown

#56. Suddenly, I feel like a piece of china, ill-placed at the edge of a table, vulnerable to shattering with the slightest bump or misstep.

Jenna Nelson

#57. Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

A.A. Milne

#58. Piece of Heaven?"
"No, that other place I'm going to go to for thinking what I'm thinking.

Richelle Mead

#59. Of course, they haven't seen your reports yet. (Joe)
'They would have if Carlos could have held a gun on the computer to make that piece of shit send an e-mail.' (Carlos)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#60. Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle, and appropriated to the use and pleasure or man: it is, or ought to be, cultivated and enriched by art'.

Tom Turner

#61. It's fun for me to go on other folks' talk shows. When you've endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.

Dick Cavett

#62. You're nothing but an intruder. A germ. A piece of sand agitating my oyster. But you're not a pearl; you're a tumor or a wart or a cyst.

Ainslie Hogarth

#63. So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.

Eduard Hanslick

#64. The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

Martin Filler

#65. Don't let go now, Jay. One-by-one, place each piece of your soul back together, but this time, make it stronger. Close your eyes and do it.

Nicole Reed

#66. Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#67. My participation in the Art of the Olympians is a natural extension of my athletic career. I find creating a piece of art in many respects mirrors my long jumping efforts illustrating that hard work and inspiration will always be the foundation for success.

Bob Beamon

#68. My best piece of advice is to do something you're passionate about. If you do - you'll do it well - and the money follows.

Ralph Strangis

#69. A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Ambrose Bierce

#70. Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life ... you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

Neil Gaiman

#71. Each time we hurt someone; we lose a piece of ourselves.

Joan Ambu

#72. It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy.

P.G. Wodehouse

#73. I approach an action sequence almost like a mathematical problem. Sometimes you get these action sequences that you read and go, 'Oh my God, this is huge, how do I do it?' and I go, 'Just a step at a time. Sit down and plot each piece of it out.'

Michelle MacLaren

#74. Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.

Norman Lock

#75. The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.

Wietse Venema

#76. For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.

Jose Parla

#77. 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.

Zhou Enlai

#78. If I see a spider in the flat, I try to get a cup and a piece of paper and throw it out of the window. I can't kill them because they're good for catching flies.

Matt Smith

#79. Every time I get an autograph, I feel like I'm taking home a little piece of that star. What drives me is the intrinsic value.

Joshua Morrow

#80. Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#81. Unkind acts are like giving a piece of one's self away for cheap.

Ron Baratono

#82. Their friendship sometimes struck Frances as being like a piece of soap-like a piece of ancient kitchen soap that had got worn to the shape of her hand, but which had been dropped to the floor so many times it was never quite free of its bits of cinder.

Sarah Waters

#83. That was all part of giving someone a piece of your heart; they ended up taking a whole chunk of your mind and reserving it all for themselves.

Cecelia Ahern

#84. It is remarkable that a gigantic, city-size computer is required to simulate a piece of human tissue that weighs three pounds, fits inside your skull, raises your body temperature by only a few degrees, uses twenty watts of power, and needs only a few hamburgers to keep it going.

Michio Kaku

#85. A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

Sholom Aleichem

#86. If you run out of gas, get a man to pee in your tank. Thanks mom, for that timeless piece of wisdom. My car exploded, ok?

Grace Feldman

#87. No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.

Matthew Desmond

#88. There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

Jet Li

#89. I have never been given these words
in this way before. This small piece of
gospel, three parts hosanna, two parts
testimony, one part lamentation.

David Levithan

#90. Michael Cole, The Rock knows that you have never, EVER, had a piece of poontang pie!

Dwayne Johnson

#91. It's my real name. My mother's name is Rose Rock. It was the worst name as a kid to have. They called me Piece of the Rock, Plymouth Rock, Joe Rockid, and Flintstones. Now they call me Mister Rock.

Chris Rock

#92. I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I'm a musician.

Norah Jones

#93. Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they don't help people become fluent with the machine.

Seymour Papert

#94. I decided to become a policeman to speak for the dead. They have no one else, you see. Somewhere there's always proof of what happened, some piece of evidence that will obtain a conviction. It's important for the guilty to be brought to justice, I think. Without justice, there's chaos.

Charles Todd

#95. A piece of work that will make sick men whole.

William Shakespeare

#96. So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with instruments and talks to the strange creatures in the audience. What a wonderful world!

Richard P. Feynman

#97. I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

Lillian Hellman

#98. Giving a piece of your life daily through employment makes you empty

Sunday Adelaja

#99. Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.

Leonard Nimoy

#100. Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

Gary L. Francione