Pieces Quotes
4050 Pieces quotes by 2766 unique authors
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Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and masters…
— Eric Bentley
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In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that…
— Donna Tartt
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The secret of a successful art career is to make more art that folks think they need than pieces they just want. When a piece…
— Jack White
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Smart art galleries know it's not the words on paper but the emotion in the piece that makes clients pull out the credit card or…
— Jack White
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Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.
— Martin Luther
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I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician. These…
— Gil Scott-Heron
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The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it
— Lamar Alexander
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What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find…
— Tim Berners-Lee
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We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen…
— Colson Whitehead
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When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, ‘The first thing you must learn is how to…
— Chuck Jones
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Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden or field; the…
— Friedrich Engels
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?
— Igor Stravinsky
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I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the…
— James Cameron
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There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.
— Bill Gates
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An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all…
— Warren Buffett
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Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material is available, in…
— Unknown Author
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Every time you have sex, you give away a little piece of your heart, and you give that away too many times and there's just…
— Daren Kagasoff
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The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering…
— Sylvia Plath
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The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece…
— Jean Dubuffet
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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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