Piece Quotes
2908 Piece quotes by 2165 unique authors
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Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth asking…
— Mavis Gallant
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The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art…
— Keith Haring
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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
— Lorraine Hansberry
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Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as…
— Julie Burchill
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Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United…
— Denton Cooley
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The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.
— Sergei Prokofiev
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A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo,…
— Dmitri Shostakovich
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Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator...If a work doesnt express the composers own personal point of view, his…
— Dmitri Shostakovich
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I can't even describe to anybody what it feels like to have my naked body shot across the world like a news flash against my…
— Jennifer Lawrence
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The main piece of technology in the green economy is a caulk gun.
— Van Jones
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When a piece gets difficult, make faces.
— Artur Schnabel
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If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town,…
— John Wilmot
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In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it…
— Miriam Makeba
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Treat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, “Thank you.
— Marshall Goldsmith
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I…
— Kate DiCamillo
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What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.
— Edgar Degas
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A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.
— Richie Benaud
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Buddhism advises you not to implant feelings that you don’t really have or avoid feelings that you do have. If you are miserable you are…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and…
— Tom Glazer
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I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work…
— Muhammad Yunus
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The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You just don't notice the time of your own metamorphosis. Until you do. Every once in a while time dissolves and you remember what you…
— Sloane Crosley
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Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history…
— John Flavel
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