Pieces Quotes · Page 18

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

— Jan Garbarek

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

— Norton Juster

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

— Lou Henry Hoover

I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.

— Nolan Bushnell

Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape…

— Walt Disney

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

I would love to buy a piece of land in the Moon, just to feel very farsighted, extremely optimistic and absolutely crazy!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.

— Rumi

Every day seems to reveal a new piece of research about meditation, or new clinical applications of mindfulness or compassion practice, or…

— Sharon Salzberg

My mom ate every piece of butter in the Midwest, she lived till she was 90. And my dad, he smoked, he…

— Louie Anderson

I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in…

— Hilton Als

For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote…

— Brendan O'Carroll

The mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it,…

— D.T. Suzuki

I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?

— David Bowie

I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If…

— Cecil Purdy

I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard…

— Gerry Adams

I invite people to just stop and be still. And in that you discover who you are, because once you discover who…

— Gangaji

It's hard to say what makes the mind piece things together in a sudden lightning flash. I've come to hold the human…

— Karen Marie Moning

Helpless, tortured, shot, blown up, my best buddies all dead, and all because we were afraid of the liberals back home, afraid…

— Marcus Luttrell

I like alternating commercials with movies, because it keeps the pace up. You can't slack on a commercial. You need to go…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

When I was a kid, you went and saw movies. You knew very little about the actor's personal life except what would…

— Kristen Stewart

One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Much as I would have liked to respond factually and truthfully to each and every piece of misinformation spread by the Brexit…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence;…

— Vincent Bugliosi

Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement.

— Anna Quindlen

She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.

— Terry Pratchett

I love Tennessee Williams pieces; they are so poetic and I love period pieces.

— Richard Hatch

Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns

— Siegbert Tarrasch

Spirituality is ultimate greed. You don't just want a piece of creation - you want the source of creation.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast.

— Scott Joplin

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were…

— Norman Lock

Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.

— Rumi

Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

— Og Mandino

I like music that is really pure and honest. For me, acoustic music, like a piece played on the piano, is very…

— Shook

When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

— Nate Berkus

It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it…

— Joe Satriani

A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size,…

— Henry Moore

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

— Jessica Hagedorn

I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.

— Jo Brand

People may be said to resemble the pieces of a puzzle, each unique, yet each essential to bring out a complete picture.

— Felix Adler