Pieces Quotes · Page 61

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history…

— Alfred Kazin

I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on…

— Harriet Doerr

You pick pieces of things you've experienced in life to make it real to yourself.

— Brooklyn Sudano

If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.

— Joe McNally

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

— H. L. Mencken

When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something.

— Kate Bush

“Your life is like a mosaic, a puzzle. You have to figure out where the pieces go and put them together for…

— Maria Shriver

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

— Jan Garbarek

I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book…

— Michael Scott

I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer,…

— Paul Lansky

I just want to give you this one piece of advice: if you're standing and you could be sitting, sit. If you're…

— Helena Bonham Carter

The reason I could last for that long a period of being up was because the piece accidentally caught the excitement and…

— Marnie Stern

A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human…

— Douglas William Jerrold

In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could…

— Damien Hirst

I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left…

— Alexandra Bracken

It's funny, but to me, when you go to a concert hall and hear electronic pieces from the '60s, I think they…

— Jonny Greenwood

Mrs. Zuppa was coming in from bingo just as I was leaving the building. "Looks like you're going to work," she said,…

— Janet Evanovich

Theater for me is terrifying but much more rewarding, because you know what they're seeing. Film is all little bits and pieces.…

— Susan Sarandon

As far as outlining is concerned, I don't outline humor. I might right down a word or two to remind myself of…

— Dave Barry

So Disney has their full support behind it, which is great, but again it's got to be the right story. It's got…

— Joseph Kosinski

“i feel like my life is so scattered right now. like it’s all these small pieces of paper and someone’s turned on…

— John Green

You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain…

— Thucydides

I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is…

— Irvin D. Yalom

The things that are reflected back at us, often times, are appealing to a base instinct that's about response as opposed to…

— Reggie Watts

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

— Norton Juster

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

— Nolan Bushnell

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

— Lou Henry Hoover

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

Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with…

— Denis Healey

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

— Evelyn Waugh

There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Just because a puzzle is missing a few pieces doesn't mean it can't make a pretty picture.

— Mathew Downs

A fellow with the smallest mind is the one who is usually most willing to give someone a piece of it.

— Croft M. Pentz

What's so good about picking up the pieces? What if I don't even want to?

— Lynn

I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.

— Dan Fogelman

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of…

— Paul Lansky

It was the most convulted, ridiculous piece of logic I'd heard in awhile... It was something I would have come up with.

— Richelle Mead

Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

— Alexander Pushkin