Piece Quotes

2908 Piece quotes by 2165 unique authors

Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of the whole. Each… — Susan Meiselas
I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have… — Carol Vorderman
Well, to have some teams come at you like Montreal did, it’s definitely flattering, and I think it was good for me to also set… — Brandon Prust
Perhaps the more ‘operatic’ video pieces were a reaction to my knit sculpture, which kept me isolated for so long in the studio that the… — Oliver Herring
The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks, the solo violinist… — Thomas Powers
To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and spare no detail,… — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate,… — Siobhan Davies
Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its… — Stanley Schmidt
I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods. — Curt Flood
It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to… — Colin Hay
Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation. — Edward T. Hall
I am the MacGyver of cooking. If you bring me a piece of bread, cabbage, coconut, mustard greens, pigs feet, pine cones...and a woodpecker, I'll… — Si Robertson
Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main plot and a… — Elizabeth Sims
When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a… — Taylor Hackford
Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop. — KatÃ³ Lomb
I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a… — John Milius
Hawai'i has often been called a melting pot, but I think of it more as a 'mixed plate'---a scoop of rice with gravy, a scoop… — Alan Brennert
As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that… — Lukas Foss
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones. — Edwin Arnold
My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it’s absurdity dressed up… — Jane Wagner
I’m a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it’s valuable. My husband used… — Iris Apfel
Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success,… — Wallace D. Wattles
Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it. — Sue Townsend
I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right. — Namie Amuro
My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to… — Wayne Thiebaud

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