Pieces Quotes · Page 35

I ask people what piece they are on the chessboard. And some people say 'I'm the king' or 'I'm the knight.' And…

— RZA

I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and…

— Aby Rosen

After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a…

— Mary Balogh

People can be chaos but it's hard to fit it into some creative piece that you made. It's hard.

— Elliott Smith

Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece.

— Steven Erikson

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is…

— Eric Hoffer

I can't really hear the audience applause when I'm on stage. I'm totally immersed in the piece. But sometimes I get a…

— Judith Jamison

Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece.

— Christopher Bollen

After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.

— Natalie Goldberg

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

— O. Henry

Majoring in religion, listening to TV evangelists interpret the scriptures and dictate my offerings-I found my God inside myself-in every moment and…

— Amy Ray

Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all…

— Sue Monk Kidd

The best piece of advice I received before I got married was, "Be careful what you say when you're in a fight,…

— Jerry Seinfeld

I want to shake people up so bad, that when they leave a nightclub where I've performed, I just want them to…

— Nina Simone

I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

— Evelyn Waugh

It is important to distinguish the difficulty of describing and learning a piece of notation from the difficulty of mastering its implications.…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

Once a piece of writing gets to a moment where it's not going to get much better than it already is, marinate…

— David Starkey

I am a dumb piece of meat and I rot everyday my flesh gives a rotting smell and people say it's the…

— Daul Kim

A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

— Man Ray

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There will be an enduring role for the 'soft' side of planning. The piece that deals with meaning, identity and ideas. This…

— John Woodward

Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of…

— P. J. O'Rourke

My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the…

— Andy Barrie