Top 90 Small Pieces Quotes
#1. I feel my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all these small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan.
John Green
#2. They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces.
Darrell Royal
#3. I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.
Patrick Rothfuss
#4. Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
Rachel Kushner
#5. Divide the big task into small pieces which can be done every day
Sunday Adelaja
#6. It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are.
Craig Venter
#7. The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
Carlos Ghosn
#8. We had, I felt, bared small pieces of our symmetrical souls to each other, fast, as if playing one of those breathless card games, and I had pretended to be as moved as I had been the first time I uncovered it all myself, back in East Hampton.
Olivia Sudjic
#9. A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.
Marguerite Young
#10. I folded Lizzie into small pieces. But the letters did not stop.
Sarah Schmidt
#11. I want a sword to slit her end to end and then, with one hundred more cuts, dice her body into small pieces and leave the bloodied,quivering remains of skin, muscle, and soulless guts on her front lawn, arranged in a gruesome scarlet letter.
Julie Metz
#12. I think tobacco and alcohol warnings are too general. They should be more to the point: 'People who smoke will eventually cough up small pieces of lung.' ... And 'Warning!! Alcohol will turn you into the same jerk your father was.'
George Carlin
#15. Research suggests that the earliest flying reptiles swallowed small pieces of volcanic rock and could breathe out flammable gases like hydrogen produced in their own bodies. It is hypothesized that their ingenious "fire breath" was used as a defense against predatory reptiles.
Karen Shanor
#17. If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface. And then you hope that one of us lot will walk around and find small pieces of you.
Louise Leakey
#18. Say what you want without saying it yourself: quote. Very useful, this, sometimes lovely, and versatile, too: big thoughts in small pieces, neatly wrapped and bundled in bulk, in different flavors for different tastes.
Willis Regier
#19. I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
Patricia MacLachlan
#20. No, she answered, one is of tin, and one of straw; one is a girl and another a Lion. None of them is fit to work, so you may tear them into small pieces.
Lynda Barry
#21. During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on one book at a time, though occasionally I will get an idea for a future book and scribble it down for future reference.
J.K. Rowling
#22. The desert is hot and boring, I'm sorry but that's pretty much all there is to it. It's also sandy, but rocks are essentially dull things and breaking them up into really small pieces doesn't improve matters.
Mark Lawrence
#23. Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function.
Craig Venter
#24. My painful memories sift through me like sand through stretched fingers. Only small pieces cling and stay around for me to keep, the rest just disappear. I know not where and I don't
Willow Madison
#25. Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?
Lorna Crozier
#26. He said at another time that she had no heart; and he added in a moment that she had given it all away - in small pieces, like a frosted wedding-cake.
Henry James
#27. In that moment her heart fell out of her chest. Like the glass filled vase he had brought to her, it dropped. It was shattered into a million small pieces.
J.B. McGee
#28. If you hang up on me again, I will slice your car into small pieces and hang them on your roof like Christmas wreaths.
Ilona Andrews
#29. She often thought about the power everybody had to ruin everybody else. You could do it by accident, just by showing up, or you could make the wrong decisions in such small pieces that by the time you realized what you were doing, it was too late.
Rosalie Knecht
#30. I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
Viggo Mortensen
#31. Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.
Laurie R. King
#32. You should look at stocks as small pieces of business.
Warren Buffett
#33. We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
Mahmoud Abbas
#34. My father owned a small piece of land. He carried it with him wherever he went.
Woody Allen
#35. We scatter small parts of ourselves as we journey through life, pieces that are stored by others and about which we may have no memory.
Olivia Lichtenstein
#36. You don't realize how small you really are until you're faced with something like that. We live our lives as if we're at the center of our own universe, but we're just tiny pieces of a shattered whole.
Cora Carmack
#37. Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Benjamin Franklin
#38. These are the pieces of my youth,
the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations
that defined my coming of age.
Tablo
#39. From shoes that are a size too small to a dress that doesn't fit quite right, there are incredible pieces in most wardrobes that have never been worn.
Brad Goreski
#40. She picked up a slice of Victoria Sponge, broke it into large pieces and tossed them in their direction. I hadn't had any yet, and could not suppress a small whimper. 'It's for science, Director,' she said. 'We must all make sacrifices.
Jodi Taylor
#41. I keep only a small edit in my wardrobe because I think it is important to keep things moving through, and I like to find out which pieces from my collections work and which could be reworked and improved.
Alice Temperley
#42. I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.
Muhammad Yunus
#43. The day you decide to let God into your life, that day God will start pulling you into pieces and destroy who you think you are to reassemble you bit by bit piece by piece, with small blocks of pure love.
Untill you become that and nothing else.
Faruk H.T.
#44. Raven has lost deeply, again and again, and she, too, has buried herself. There are pieces of her scattered all over. Her heart is nestled next to a small set of bones buried beside a frozen river, which will emerge with the spring thaw, a skeleton ship rising out of the water.
Lauren Oliver
#45. Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
Sallust
#46. This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.
Bob Ney
#48. As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.
Rumer Godden
#49. Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.
Sylvia Earle
#50. Benjamin Franklin said it best: "Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom." Now,
Meik Wiking
#51. I think people seem to want to read pieces that are shorter but not as short as the pieces they can read in small bites on the Internet. It may be that the sort of long essays are hitting a sweet spot between the tiny morsels online and the full-length book.
Meghan Daum
#52. They were roots, Michael realized. Every memory of Maria was a root she had put inside his body. Too many roots, he thought. If Michael left all that roots could come off, shattering him to pieces. There would be nothing, just small and useless parts.
Melinda Metz
#53. It is confirmation to me that beyond the material world of cause and effect, there is a dimension of spirit waiting for our recognition. We see such a small piece of all the wonder surrounding us.
Paula D'Arcy
#54. Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day.
Jim Rohn
#55. The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.
Chris Van Allsburg
#56. Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.
Benjamin Franklin
#57. It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
Robert Genn
#58. Break me into pieces,
Small enough to fit
In the palm of your hand, baby.
I never thought that you would save me,
break a piece
for your friends
break a piece
just for luck
break a piece
sell it sell it
break me break me.
Maggie Stiefvater
#59. Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe.
Austin Grossman
#60. Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [ ... ], some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?
Elizabeth Bishop
#61. Pawns are such fascinating pieces, too ... So small, almost insignificant, and yet
they can depose kings. Don't you find that interesting?
Lavie Tidhar
#62. I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America.
Che Guevara
#63. I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.
Kurt Cobain
#64. One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.
Richard Leakey
#65. An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.
Warren Buffett
#66. The pieces of my broken heart are so small that
they could be passed through the eye of a needle.
Brian Helgeland
#67. I find others, those who prey on the innocent and do not play by the rules, and I make them go away in small, carefully wrapped pieces.
Jeff Lindsay
#68. There is always a point in the writing of a piece when I sit in a room literally papered with false starts and cannot put one word after another and imagine that I have suffered a small stroke, leaving me apparently undamaged but actually aphasic.
Joan Didion
#69. I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions.
John Williams
#70. If he says something that isn't true, he is bringing uncertainty into the world. He is blinding the people around him to a small part of the truth - and every part of the truth is important. You can't complete a jigsaw if one of its pieces has been swapped out for a piece of a different jigsaw.
M.R. Carey
#71. Would like to chop you up into small, manageable pieces and grill you on a hibachi, then feed you to my shar-pei. But all that comes out is Welcome to moviefone!
Augusten Burroughs
#72. Oh, you couldn't do anything; you're just a small, annoying fly that I would gladly smash to pieces."
~Thomas, The Wander
Laura Allen
#73. Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends.
Ashly Lorenzana
#74. Small spaces allow me the intimacy, but make it more of a challenge for the more theatrical pieces.
Karen Mason
#75. I believe that what a woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. What we fear is not so much that our energy may be leaking away through small outlets as that it may be going down the drain.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#76. The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#77. Just because the girl doesn't end up with the boy in the end - doesn't mean she ends up with nothing. Life's a gift. I just want to share yours, no matter how small the pieces that are shared may be.
Rachel Van Dyken
#78. Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.
Denis Waitley
#79. A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy.
Zicheng Hong
#80. The only access now to the world, the universe, is made through bits and pieces, clung to as small heroes battling against withdrawal.
Christine Brooke-Rose
#81. I started directing chamber orchestras, then adding bigger pieces, adding winds, adding small symphonies. I've always loved chamber music, and I've done a lot.
Joshua Bell
#82. A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.
Annie Leibovitz
#83. Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happens but seldom.
Meik Wiking
#84. Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.
Samuel Johnson
#85. Everything in existence matters - all the pieces of the puzzle are important whether great or small, the flap of a butterfly wing affects all."
-Shireen Violett
Shireen Violett
#86. I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#87. Cesium, iodine from the Chernobyl reactor accident went around the world many times and everyone on the Earth has a piece of Chernobyl in their bodies, but it's very tiny - too small to cause much damage.
Michio Kaku
#88. If Amber kept up her act forever, it would only be a matter of time before the broken pieces of her real self were too small to ever be put back together. I didn't know what happened to people once they were unfixable. I only hoped I never had to find out.
Cole Gibsen
#89. I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.
Angela Cartwright
#90. If you wish to live exactly as you please, the Angkar will put aside a small piece of land for you.
Pol Pot
