Pieces Quotes · Page 47

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

— Steve Lacy

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

— Garry Trudeau

Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.

— Susan Sontag

Writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.

— Heather Sellers

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

— Philip Guston

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's…

— Leo Tolstoy

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

The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

— Toni Morrison

We really had the whole piece laid out in like a Word file, just from beginning to end. It was kind of…

— Crowder

If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the…

— Sivananda

There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or…

— Steven Weinberg

In positions of strategic manoeuvring (where time is not of decisive importance) seek the worst-placed piece. Activating that piece is often the…

— Mark Dvoretsky

There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point,…

— Alanis Morissette

In King’s Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man’s a piece to start with, and…

— Anonymous

So I bought a forty-four magnum, it was solid steel cast, and in the blessed name of Elvis, well I just let…

— Bruce Springsteen

We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland…

— Henry Hampton

My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant…

— Pete Seeger

Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She…

— Khaled Hosseini

The best piece of advice someone has ever given me was 'do it scared.' And no matter if you're scared, just go…

— Sherri Shepherd

Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when…

— Rudolf Rocker

I had been composing just for myself, and people would say I played so orchestrally, and wondered if I thought about having…

— Terry Bozzio

Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has…

— Gary Busey

“I will rearrange the pieces. I might succed in solving the jigsaw puzzle of my life. But a piece of my perfect…

— Pravesh Vir Siddhu

When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some…

— Zora Neale Hurston

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.

— Alicia Keys

“I was in love With every part of her The parts I knew And the parts I didn’t”

— Hanna Abi Akl

My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.

— Faith Prince

It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly…

— Sarah Dessen

In fact, all of us have a piece of Chernobyl in our bodies going back to 1986.

— Michio Kaku

The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

— Christian Marclay

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

— Glenn Gould

For God to mend your broken heart you must give him ALL the pieces. You can't hold any back.

— Rick Warren

Rearranging pieces, like it's all we know It's all we know, let it go.

— Blessthefall

I think a great piece of outerwear can really make you stand out.

— Garance Dore

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

— Sidney Sheldon

Jesus wrecked my life, shattered it to pieces, and put it back together more beautifully.

— Anonymous

Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story -…

— Haile Gerima

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

— Mike Mills

I'm, like, the most insane Wes Anderson fan - his films are pretty much my inner landscapes. I just love him to…

— Alison Sudol

One piece of graffiti doesn't mean much. Forty pieces of graffiti might mean something... It's all about connecting the dots.

— Kim Rossmo