Piece Quotes

2908 Piece quotes by 2165 unique authors

What is a child, but a piece of the parent enrapt up in another skin? And yet our dearest children are but as strangers to… — John Flavel
The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know… — Lorrie Moore
Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure… — Michael Pollan
One piece of advice that always stuck in my mind is that people should be respected and trusted as people, not because of their position… — Herb Kelleher
While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there… — Felix Frankfurter
My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would… — Vanessa Carlton
Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio, but… — Henry Moore
When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise! — Alexander Calder
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated… — August Strindberg
I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it`s a conversation piece. — Hedda Hopper
To me if there's an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it's because nothing stands out, it all works as a piece. And… — Roger Deakins
Kyle Busch is going to get his ass whipped shortly I hope. He better sit his ass in his motor home or I’m going to… — Kevin Harvick
I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the… — David Tudor
Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which… — Iannis Xenakis
Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a… — Morton Feldman
Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself. — Erik Satie
When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president… — Christopher Hitchens
I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I would know the… — Warren Buffett
The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says… — Jim Rogers
Even though he was and enemy of mine, I had to admit that what he had accomplished was a brilliant piece of strategy. First, he… — Jack Handey
The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece. — Johann Georg Hamann
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug. — Max Frisch
This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only… — Erwin Schrodinger
Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it. — Vernor Vinge

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