Top 100 Quotes About Piece
#2. 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
#3. There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.
Bat For Lashes
#4. Let me guess ... " said Mal. She popped a piece of candy into her mouth. "New class?" Doug nodded sheepishly.
Walt Disney Company
#5. 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
#6. Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.
Stephen Graham Jones
#7. 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
#8. I love you, James Bell. I love you with all of my heart. You are the missing piece from my life.
Renae Kaye
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Just movies in general. It's such a wonderful business as much as you feel, you are fine tuning your craft, every movie is a completely different challenge. Every fight sequence is different. Every action set piece. I enjoy that.
Len Wiseman
#12. I love 'The Omen,' just as a piece of plotting.
Greg Rucka
#13. Success to me was getting out of that contract in one piece.
Brenda Holloway
#14. 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
#15. 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.
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
Alan Rickman
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. I wouldn't want to do an average fashion line. I'd want it to be an amazing piece of art.
Rita Ora
#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. 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
#25. I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage.
David Cross
#26. Sooner or later, clockwork requires each piece to accept its nature or break. Hearts are no different.
Robert Appleton
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Thomas Browne
#31. 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
#32. The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.
Lou Henry Hoover
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#39. He stepped around Tamlin as if he were a piece of furniture and took my hand.
Sarah J. Maas
#40. 11. I am inclined to say: I 'point' in different senses to this body, to its shape, to its colour, etc.
What does that mean?
What does it mean to say I 'hear' in a different sense the piano, its sound, the piece, the player, his fluency? I 'marry', in one sense a woman, in another her money.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#41. In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.
Herman Melville
#42. So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue.
Mitchell Reiss
#43. Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
Walker Percy
#44. If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#45. I used to go through the dictionary looking for unusual but nontechnical words. At one time, I thought the greatest word was 'jejune' and I would throw it into every piece because something about it appealed to me.
Tom Wolfe
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. They say, they own a piece of land. I say, you don't even own your own body.
Vinita Kinra
#49. A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
Jose Bergamin
#50. 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
#51. If we let all the negative roadblocks influence us then it's only a matter of time before we end up detoured, lost, or possibly stranded on the side of the highway. Our positive attitude keeps our battery powered and our gas tank full, so that we can make it in one piece to our destination.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#52. A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.
Richie Benaud
#53. Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we hold ourselves and others.
Krista Tippett
#54. I looked at her. She wore a very tight and tiny two-piece orange bathing swimsuit that inadequately covered the overplump body I'd been using as a forget-yourself machine.
Gil Brewer
#55. The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.
Sanford Meisner
#56. I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience.
Diane Paulus
#57. Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle
Jodi Picoult
#58. It's hard to fuck your girlfriend when she's fucked up and you're not. It's harder than the skee-ball they used to have at the Plaza arcade, all that agony over a fuzzy piece.
Sam Lipsyte
#59. A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.
Aleksandar Hemon
#60. My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid.
David Levithan
#61. Besides" - Jasper smiled, teeth pearly white and predatory - "it'll be a cold day in hell when I complain about having a hot piece like you in my bed.
Melissa Grey
#62. I don't think there's anything to be desired in a bunch of people chasing you around, trying to get a piece of your clothing.
Sam Waterston
#63. I love all the shoe shops in Covent Garden. Laura Lee Jewellery on Monmouth Street for delicate gold jewellery. Every time I get a part in an English movie, I buy myself a piece of jewellery from there.
Caterina Murino
#64. What is the point of labeling each individual piece of fruit? Buy the fruit, EAT the ad! We've carved a chunk out of the ozone, burned up all the rainforests, soon we won't be able to BREATHE, and all because we had to label each individual piece of fruit.
Lucy Ellmann
#65. Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.
Andrea Gibson
#66. A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath.
Terry Pratchett
#67. I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.
Rob Corddry
#68. Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece.
Gillian Anderson
#69. The number one worst piece of horsemanship on earth is violence.
Monty Roberts
#70. The hands of the artificer," Paul said, "had wu, and allowed that wu to flow into this piece. Possibly he himself knows only that this piece satisfies. It is complete, Robert. By contemplating it, we gain more wu ourselves.
Philip K. Dick
#71. The day after I became king, S'yan offered a single piece of wisdom. 'Power lies not in what a king does, but in what his subjects believe he might do.' This was profound. For it meant that the majesty of kings lay in their mystique... not in their might.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#72. In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#73. When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very intimate and extended conversation with the work materials themselves.
David Wroblewski
#74. To me, a film is like a piece of architecture. There are so many details that all, in the end, end up being one thing.
Andre Ovredal
#75. Oskar pushes away the blanket. Lies looking down at his naked body. His naked body that will give the lie to any false identity papers he manages to procure. Has anyone, he wonders, ever explained to me the significance of circumcision? Why I have had to sacrifice to God a piece of my sexual organ.
Glenn Haybittle
#76. My interpreter Sayuri is folding a piece of notebook paper. She is at step 21, where the crane's body is inflated. The directions show a tiny puff besides an arrow pointing at the bird. It makes sense if you already know what to do. Otherwise, it's wonderfully surreal: Put a cloud inside a bird.
Mary Roach
#77. It helps to remember that people who possess the qualities we lack aren't any better than us. They weren't given a bigger piece of the awesome pie. They are just as flawed, but in different ways.
Michaela Chung
#78. In positions of strategic manoeuvring (where time is not of decisive importance) seek the worst-placed piece. Activating that piece is often the most reliable way of improving your position as a whole.
Mark Dvoretsky
#79. It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two.
Mercedes McCambridge
#80. I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
Harold Ross
#81. My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'
Demetri Martin
#82. 'Dark Circles' is a great relationship/character piece and also a horror film. It tinkered with the genre, which I loved. I was sick of seeing the same thing, sick of people just trying to get a movie made.
Johnathon Schaech
#83. Every single floorboard quivers and shudders under my feet, and I start mentally bargaining with the house: If I make it to the front door without waking up Aunt Carol, I swear to God I'll never slam another door. I'll never call you "an old piece of turd" again.
Lauren Oliver
#84. I wanted to do a period piece. I wanted to be on a show that people would actually watch, that was of quality.
Timothy Omundson
#85. What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I see is a flat piece of canvas covered with colored patterns.
Terry Teachout
#86. How can you tell when a piece is finished?'I asked.
'You can't,' he said flatly. 'All you can tell is when you can't do any more to it. And then you need to stop because if you don't, you will spoil it.
Mary Hoffman
#87. And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.
Ernest Gaines
#88. GAMZEE: honk.
KARKAT: WHAT.
GAMZEE: HONK.
KARKAT: WHAT DOES HONK MEAN THIS TIME YOU WHIMSICAL PIECE OF SHIT?????
Andrew Hussie
#89. We been through a lot and you earned a piece of my heart, babe. It's all yours and always will be.
- Knight.
Kristen Ashley
#90. Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I'm going to live forever.
Linus Torvalds
#91. My anger with him had grown as the hours had passed. I'd convinced myself when he came to get me i would really give him a piece of my mind. Of course - it's easy to be brave when the object of your fear isn't holding your sore nipples hostage. ~ Livvie
C.J. Roberts
#92. But a piece of paper can be a powerful presence. I have always had enormous respect for the written word and invariably find a letter more revealing than a face-to-face conversation. In a strange way I suspect I will get to know you better at a distance than I would if you had stayed at home ...
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
#93. The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me ... If you really want to know what makes someone a killer, ask yourself what would make you do it.
Jodi Picoult
#94. Besides, I can't, I no longer have the strength to destroy this painful piece of myself, which might turn out to be the piece I value most.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#95. An Ebola particle is only around eighty nanometres wide and a thousand nanometres long. If it were the size of a piece of spaghetti, then a human hair would be about twelve feet in diameter and would resemble the trunk of a giant redwood tree.
Richard Preston
#96. There was not one witness to accuse me, there was no one to identify me, there was not a single piece of evidence against me. I was found guilty, simply out of the mistaken "conviction" held by the Political Police. And sadly, my case was no exception.
Armando Valladares
#97. You don't always need the absolute latest gear. Find your piece(s) of equipment and let time evolve your ideas with that setup.
Richie Hawtin
#98. I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art, even though people who collect clothes get a bad rap because they're told it's all vanity.
Daphne Guinness
#99. And this is why I have concluded that although every racial, ethnic, and religious group in the United States claims to want a piece of the American dream, there is no group that apologizes more for its success than black people.
Lawrence Otis Graham
#100. Now I must listen again to Claude's set piece on menu terms, as if he's the first ever to spot these unimportant absurdities. He lingers on "pan-fried." What is pan but a deceitful benediction on the vulgar and unhealthy fried?
Ian McEwan
