Pieces Quotes · Page 49

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

— Tom Hanks

Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece I'm lookin' for my missin' piece Hi-dee-ho, here I go, Lookin' for my missin' piece

— Shel Silverstein

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.

— Richard Schiff

I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense…

— Donal Logue

Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on…

— Jennifer Donnelly

The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

French women don't have too many clothes - a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.

— Mireille Guiliano

I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

— Miles Davis

I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The…

— Pauline Oliveros

A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and…

— Clint Smith

I've enjoyed photography, ever since I was a teenager, and I'm still at it. I've had shows in various cities, around the…

— Leonard Nimoy

As a stylist, I know accessorization is essential: It is the personal touch to any outfit. With these pieces everybody can have…

— Anna Dello Russo

If we think systematically, we will stop asking, How much is nature worth? We will know that we are a piece of…

— Karl-Henrik Robert

I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To…

— Aaron Ruell

Most tasks and tests will demand recall of isolated pieces of information, and I will not have to show how concepts and…

— Joseph Barrell

Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little…

— Aileen Fisher

We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to…

— David Foster Wallace

Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic…

— Ambrose Bierce

The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be…

— Douglas Rushkoff

It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as…

— Thomas Huxley

I think when people say they dread going into work on Monday morning, it's because they know they are leaving a piece…

— Tony Hsieh

What we're doing with the digital permissions that we have for Xbox One is no different to that. If I am playing…

— Larry Hryb

I work in bits and pieces. When I'm touring it's difficult. After touring, when I have space and time, it's a process,…

— Anna Ternheim

“Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantelpiece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Theatre is what I've always done, really, especially with the RSC, but I do bits and pieces on TV.

— Richard McCabe

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

— Jilly Cooper

I think there are pieces of yourself that you will always guard.

— Kiera Cass

Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say.

— Anonymous

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

— Stephen Graham Jones

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

— Robert Benchley

It's best to make your peace with change, before it makes pieces of you.

— Irwin Corey

Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

— Bruce Catton

I prefer single statement pieces like solitaire earrings and a elegant ring.

— Gauri Khan

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

— Cary Elwes

When I feel myself getting overwhelmed, I take a deep breath and eat a piece of chocolate.

— Adrian Grenier

I just hold out for pieces where I immediately feel an emotional connection with a part.

— Sarah Lancashire

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

— Italo Calvino

I never had a piece of toast particularly long and wide, But fell upon the sanded floor, And always on the buttered…

— James Payn

Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.

— Terry Tempest Williams

If your creed and Scripture do not agree, cut your creed to pieces, but make it agree with this book.

— Charles Spurgeon