Pieces Quotes · Page 48

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.

— Isaac Asimov

I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.

— Travis Barker

Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

— Robert James Waller

Why does the U.S. care which flag will be hoisted on a small piece of land thousands of miles away?

— Ron Paul

you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece

— Barbara Kingsolver

We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.

— Sarah Dessen

I typically go for a more classic aesthetic, though I like to contrast that with bold statement pieces throughout my house.

— Karlie Kloss

I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.

— Jay Roach

What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience,…

— Cheech Marin

In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a…

— Edgar Allan Poe

If it works for the piece of music, I'm going to use it. I don't want to be limited any more than…

— Linda Perhacs

I think that any time a person comes face-to-face with their own mortality - close enough to Death that they can smell…

— Jim Goad

At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab…

— Abraham Lincoln

Great lovers lie in Hell, the stubborn ones Infatuate of the flesh upon the bones; Stuprate, they rend each other when they…

— John Crowe Ransom

I think I've become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are probably creepy. But I get compliments…

— Jack Huston

There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the…

— Eric Allman

The key of writing fiction isn't just to remove something that the reader or listener can easily imagine. It's not a matter…

— Peter Turchi

And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about…

— Richard Dooling

Rock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it's really what helped bring the anti-war movement…

— Eve Ensler

Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and…

— Ama Ata Aidoo

We have indeed been out in space, but some are under the illusion that we have been off Earth. In reality humans…

— Thomas Berry

The show [Shots Fired] is an autopsy of our criminal justice system, a space where the conversation surrounding the issues in our…

— Aisha Hinds

You want a piece of advice?" said Ripred. "Don't bother. I know what you'll say. The whole thing's stupid," said Gregor. "Quite…

— Suzanne Collins

Teaching children about entrepreneurship is much like imparting any other skill or piece of knowledge. You will provide them with ways to…

— Naveen Jain

Hollywood can buy a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but the great thing is they can never buy word of mouth.

— Steve Tisch

“I am a thousand scattered pieces that no one has bothered to put together.”

— Jennifer Coburn

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece…

— Jane Lynch

I started out doing everything on a custom scale and when that started paying the bills I started making more pieces.

— Fred Foster

Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.

— Richard Kadrey

I have definitely got more than a few pieces of cheetah in my wardrobe.

— Marquise Goodwin

“Every time, he breaks your hearts. And every time, he expects me to pick up the pieces.”

— Rainbow Rowell

Within each piece, I create an intriguing balance between jewelry and the body, and an intensity which draws others to it.

— Sarah Richardson

His best-known piece is probably his "Canon in D." He also has 'Hexachordium Apollonis', which is also quite famous.

— Johann Pachelbel

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

— Shirley Temple

Life should be all about change. But some things shouldn't change. And my three-piece suits are one of those things.

— Ali Velshi

Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

— Ray Bradbury

People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.

— Richard Rodney Bennett

How does it feel, MacKayla? You have a piece of me in your mouth. Would you like another?

— Karen Marie Moning

If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken…

— Annie Proulx

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

— Joshua Bell