Piece Quotes

2908 Piece quotes by 2165 unique authors

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece… — Jeanne Moreau
One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen. — Johannes Brahms
And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life.… — Jim Rohn
You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of… — Holbrook Jackson
Living Things. The garden can be as unlimited a resource as you want it to be. It's an escape from everything if you just want… — Hazel Hawke
My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success… — Robert Menzies
If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite scene,… — Joss Whedon
Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece… — Valerie Wilson Wesley
Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji people and I put… — Gough Whitlam
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript… — Arthur Quiller-Couch
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write… — Miller Williams
Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three… — Flannery O'Connor
You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively.… — Anne Lamott
I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me. — Evelyn Waugh
In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For… — Anton Chekhov
I wish that we lived in a time and a generation where people would stop viewing my honesty as overly emotional. People always act like… — Drake
There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to… — Alanis Morissette
I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist.… — Ian Rankin
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen. — Leo Tolstoy
To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too,… — Eudora Welty
The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped… — Ernest Hemingway
A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the… — John Irving
The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very… — Jose Raul Capablanca

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