Top 100 Quotes About Parts
#1. The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person.
Sergei Bubka
#2. Kids are really good at ignoring the heavy-handed message and getting with the fun parts. It's good they are, because adults have devoted a lot of effort writing them message thinly disguised as stories and clubbing children over the head with them.
Jo Walton
#3. 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
#4. Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there's no denying that individuation and separation are inevitable parts of loving relationships that become the site of tension.
Sharon Salzberg
#5. I love math because there's always a right answer. It's not interpretive; it's not subjective. There is a correct destination, even if you have to hack through confusing parts to get there. That's not always true in life.
Emery Lord
#6. I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
Louisa May Alcott
#7. Analysis is simplifying, breaking down things into parts, picking out strands and elements. Analysis is comparing unknown things with things that are known. Analysis also involves picking out relationships and putting them back together as a whole.
Edward De Bono
#8. Infielder Craig Counsell played parts of sixteen years in the major leagues despite looking like a librarian,
Tim Kurkjian
#9. One could always imagine that one's life, though smoldering in parts, might be undamaged in the west.
Chris Cleave
#10. Confronted with the truly microscopic, all loftiness is hopeless, completely meaningless. The diminutive of the parts is more impressive than the monumentality of the whole. I no longer have any use for the sweeping gestures of heroes on the global stage. I'm going for a walk.
Joseph Roth
#11. I assure you, all my parts are my own." "That's a relief; otherwise you would've had the biggest vagina in the world as a woman.
Helena Hunting
#12. You can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even to try anymore. I want to use everything, including hate and envy and lust and fear.
Alison Lurie
#13. It is important to understand that all of us are all either consciously or unconsciously co-creating the illusions of the physical reality. We often are unaware of our co-creating ability and frequently create parts of the physical reality by default unconsciously.
Russell Anthony Gibbs
#14. So,would you say I'm closer to a zombie or a vampire? I gotta know - are my parts going to rot and fall off, or am I forever frozen in youthful perfection?
Rachel Vincent
#15. IF YOU ABOLISH THE DRAFT," said Owen Meany, "MOST AMERICANS WILL SIMPLY STOP CARING WHAT WE'RE DOING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD
John Irving
#17. April. Henry passed the word into sounds so small their sense disappeared, as if he'd wandered into the wide spaces that separate the solid parts of the molecule.
Chad Harbach
#18. I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!
Jay Ryan
#19. I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.
Jonathan Lethem
#20. I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.
Zach Braff
#21. I loved everyone who said yes to the world and tried to make it better instead of worse, because so much in the world was ugly- and just about all the ugly parts were due to humans.
Lauren Myracle
#22. There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow it.
Noam Chomsky
#23. Life after love was possible. I was proof. Loss taught you about yourself, burrowed in the dark parts of your soul and ate you from the inside out.
Hailey Edwards
#24. The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.
Frans De Waal
#25. The tragedy of life is not death, but fearing to live, allowing parts of us to wilt and die instead of flower and rejoice.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#26. In Two Parts You come and go so easily, your life is as you knew - while mine is split in two. How I envy so the half of me, who lived before love's due, who was yet to know of you.
Lang Leav
#27. He could never imagine himself with anyone other than Maureen; they had shared so much. To live without her would be like scooping out the vital parts of himself, and he would be no more than a fragile envelope of skin.
Anonymous
#28. I take all the best parts of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and combine them into a whole new service called ... YouTwit-face.
Mark Frost
#29. One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one's being to take over the work from time to time.
John Gardner
#30. I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up.
Jim Rash
#31. Being will not have magnitude, if it is substance. For each of the two parts must be in a different sense.
Aristotle.
#32. Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts.
Sean Bean
#33. I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.
Olivia Colman
#34. Faced with parts of ourselves that we do not recognize, would like perhaps not to recognize, we deny the kinship, and often lean away from the new and into the old, accentuating the familiar qualities that complement the strange new ones.
Thomas Van Nortwick
#35. Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.
Lewis Thomas
#36. The different human peoples did not evolve out of a common ancestor; they were each born out of the womb of their own homeland. We appeared in different parts of the world at the same time. Each group was as much a part of their environment as the other animals and plants of the region.
Eliot Cowan
#37. To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
Bill Crawford
#38. Anna Campbell and I have already done a history tour of parts of the U.K., and it would be fun to invite my fellow Word Wench Cara Elliott along, too!
Nicola Cornick
#39. It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage"There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility.
Hannah Arendt
#40. 'Appetite for Destruction' was the only thing written with lyrics and melody fitting the guitar parts at the same time. After that, I got a barrage of guitar songs that I was supposed to put words to, and I don't know if that was the best thing for Guns.
Axl Rose
#41. One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.
Liz Smith
#43. Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#44. The first step is to admit you're powerless. You have an addiction, and you can't stop. The first step is to tell your story, all the worst parts. Your lowest lows.
Chuck Palahniuk
#45. A Gypsy never parts with her gold, unless she intends to spend it.
Debra Holland
#46. It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts, you are traveling the world, you are hassling your agent. You are trying to find that script.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#47. Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.
Jodi Picoult
#48. Moving around a lot allows you to experience many different cultures and learn about the ways that different people in different parts of the country live, and it probably made me somewhat more adventuresome and allowed me to meet my future wife in Pensacola.
Alan G. Poindexter
#49. People in this room must have back problems, I'm sure some of us do, and it is really, really one of the worst pains and debilitating parts of your body that you can actually have because you really can't do anything in your life when you have it.
Greg Norman
#50. I started manufacturing bicycle parts. I come from a city called Ludhiana where almost everybody is self-employed, and either you make bicycle parts or bicycles, or hosiery parts or hosiery goods.
Sunil Mittal
#51. There were certain young actors I had trained with at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who had always got the big parts and I was always the spear-carrier. Suddenly the roles were reversed and I couldn't understand why, and nor could they.
David Warner
#52. I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
Carla Bley
#53. I had no desire to be a star. I wanted to be a character actress and be able to do all kinds of parts and work on a lot of things. That was my unconscious choice. I wanted to be an undercover actress.
Elizabeth Wilson
#54. It wasn't until after the body was scarred by a brush with danger that it learned fear. Conner thought of all the untouched places on his soul yet to teach him something. All the unblemished parts of him waiting for that razor of truth.
Hugh Howey
#55. First learn to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#56. A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore.
Edwin Meese
#57. I feel uneasy. It's not often that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someone. It's not comfortable when you do.
Veronica Roth
#58. Two parts of me have been at war. Your... odd family, your financial troubles- your in a different world from me. people expect me to travel in certain circles. And I do respect the wishes of my family, but not today. I've tried to fight it for months now, but Lizzie Bennet... I'm in love with you.
Bernie Su
#59. [W]e ignore the Whole, we're taken in by the parts. We're seduced by objects of our consciousness
Steve Hagen
#60. As it happens, I think that in really good stories, the whole is always greater than the sum of the parts.
Stephen King
#61. I love her and hate her at the same time. I even love the parts of her that I hate, her vitality and her colour, her disruption and disorder, her humour and her despair, her conceit and her narcissism, her everything that isn't me.
Poppy Adams
#62. To one who loves his country in all its parts, it is natural to rejoice in whatever contributes to the prosperity and honor and marks the stability and progress of any portion of its people.
Jefferson Davis
#63. They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.
E.L. Konigsburg
#64. When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#65. The elementary parts of all tissues are formed of cells in an analogous, though very diversified manner, so that it may be asserted, that there is one universal principle of development for the elementary parts of organisms, however different, and that this principle is the formation of cells.
Theodor Schwann
#66. The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.
Jeffrey Kluger
#67. While I may be pessimistic about parts of the business that support journalism, I'm optimistic about the robust survival of journalism in the long run.
George Brock
#68. Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!
Nevil Shute
#69. Shinya Yamanaka's work has involved mice and human cells, and advances the prospect of providing new cells or body parts for patients.
John Gurdon
#70. The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#71. Alexander of Whitby taught that the universe is like a tapestry only parts of which are visible to us at a time. After we are dead, we will see the whole and then it will be clear to us how the different parts relate to each other.
Susanna Clarke
#72. All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece.
Eddie Murphy
#73. But that doesn't mean that the good parts get any less good.
Jessica Sorensen
#74. I woke up one day and I was like, "I don't have anything to save for myself for the future." That's when I started archiving things. I take four or five things that are really key to each collection, and I restore them or, in some cases, remake parts of them, and archive them.
Jason Wu
#75. Do you watch Cops on TV?"
"I love Cops," he said. "It's like my life, but with the boring parts taken out.
Jennifer Echols
#76. All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.
Will Rogers
#77. So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.
Charlize Theron
#78. To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave, and salable as such.
Mark Twain
#79. If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.
Ambrose
#80. My wife sent me a Valentine card that said, "Take my heart, take my lips, take my soul." That's just like her. She kept the good parts for herself.
Milton Berle
#81. We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.
Samuel Johnson
#82. I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.
Stephen Mangan
#83. A new collection of matter and information to present to the universe and to which it in turn will be presented; different, arguably equal parts of that great ever-repetitive, ever-changing jurisdiction of being.
Iain M. Banks
#84. Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.
Vladimir Nabokov
#85. I had better cellular coverage on a ship in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea than I have in many parts of Silicon Valley.
Roger McNamee
#86. I put myself back together as best as I could, but I was sure that parts of me were broken permanently. Dark parts of me. Parts that I'd held onto for far too long.
Laurelin Paige
#87. Now we must remark, that there are two parts in the Commandment-the first forbids the erection of a graven image, or any likeness; the second prohibits the transferring of the worship which God claims for Himself alone, to any of these phantoms or delusive shows.
John Calvin
#88. There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of the poor, but they are usually in conflict with organised religion themselves.
Tariq Ali
#89. Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.
Adam Nevill
#90. trying to convert an existing class from concrete to abstract by pushing just the concrete parts down into a new subclass, you might accidentally leave remnants of concrete behavior behind.
Anonymous
#91. Eventually, they can't speak, chew and swallow, or use the bathroom - not because those parts of their bodies no longer work but because they can't remember how.
Jane Gross
#92. Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.
Angela Carter
#93. She probably enjoys cutting up everyone's happiness. Not to mention cutting up other parts of people; given her penchant for poisoning people and turning them into beech trees, I fail to see how she has reached thirty without leaving a trail of bodies behind her.
Patricia C. Wrede
#94. People don't live on the Disc any more than, in less hand-crafted parts of the multiverse, they live on balls. Oh, planets may be the place where their body eats its tea, but they live elsewhere, in worlds of their own which orbit very handily around the centre of their heads
Terry Pratchett
#96. With composition, parts can't be shared with other objects. The life of the part is completely within the life span of the whole.
Michael Jesse Chonoles
#97. The worst deformities, the foulest stains, disfiguring and blackening all the rest, are the very parts of Fijian nature which, while the most strongly characteristic, are such that may only be hurriedly mentioned, dimly hinted at, or passed by altogether in silence.
James Calvert
#98. There are no interesting stories in these parts, just weary, never-ending tales of tragedy and woe. And toothlessness.
Mia Sheridan
#99. It is taken care of. Nothing will not break into my Pit or the Far Reaches! I cannot speak for the other parts of the House, but we have Nothing well in hand here. I understand Nothing as no one else does!
- Grim Tuesday
Garth Nix
#100. Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. A man of parts and fashion is therefore often seen to smile, but never heard to laugh.
Lord Chesterfield
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