Top Pieces Quotes Collection

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Image of Ann Rinaldi
When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.
- Ann Rinaldi
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Image of Lyn Hejinian
A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece
- Lyn Hejinian
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Image of Cindy Sherman
The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.
- Cindy Sherman
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Image of Ernest Rutherford
It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.
- Ernest Rutherford
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Image of Heidi W. Durrow
A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.
- Heidi W. Durrow
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Image of Jim Morrison
It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
- Jim Morrison
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Image of Alexis Bledel
I've seen so many period pieces in my life, I really enjoy them so much, a lot of my favorite movies are period pieces.
- Alexis Bledel
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Image of S.G. Browne
If you've never been in a dumpster coated with industrial waste while someone stabs you with a piece of sharpened rebar, then you probably wouldn't understand.
- S.G. Browne
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Image of Michael Polanyi
We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis.
- Michael Polanyi
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Image of George Pelecanos
The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same.
- George Pelecanos
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Image of John Cage
My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.
- John Cage
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Image of Artur Schnabel
I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much.
- Artur Schnabel
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Image of Seth Klarman
If you can remember that stocks aren't pieces of paper that gyrate all the time --they are fractional interests in businesses -- it all makes sense.
- Seth Klarman
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Image of Mary Russell Mitford
A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.
- Mary Russell Mitford
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Image of Charlotte Rampling
You can't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.
- Charlotte Rampling
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Image of Lawrence Kushner
Everyone carries with them at least one piece to someone else's puzzle.
- Lawrence Kushner
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Image of Joey Skaggs
But my favorite work is always my next piece.
- Joey Skaggs
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Image of Paul Celan
They've healed me to pieces.
- Paul Celan
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Image of Alfred Brendel
If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.
- Alfred Brendel
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Image of Johann Pachelbel
His best-known piece is probably his "Canon in D." He also has 'Hexachordium Apollonis', which is also quite famous.
- Johann Pachelbel
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Image of Alfred Kazin
To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.
- Alfred Kazin
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Image of Sophie Swetchine
When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?
- Sophie Swetchine
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Image of Jay Roach
I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.
- Jay Roach
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Image of Hilary Hahn
The encore is the short piece after the program has finished, where the performer brings out something that the audience doesn't expect.
- Hilary Hahn
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Image of Cary Elwes
Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.
- Cary Elwes
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Image of Charlie Weis
No one will want a piece of us in 2009.
- Charlie Weis
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Image of Leonard Maltin
Hitchcock's murder set-pieces are so potent, they can galvanize (and frighten) even a viewer who's seen them before!
- Leonard Maltin
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Image of Faith Popcorn
Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution.
- Faith Popcorn
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Image of Chuck Close
If you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces.
- Chuck Close
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Image of Varg Vikernes
We pick up the lost bits and pieces, from the grass where we left them, and bring them with us into a future that will be made up of so much more as well.
- Varg Vikernes
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Image of Tracy Morgan
When I do stand-up... I get to do whatever I want to do. There's no boundaries. You'll get to know me. You'll leave with a piece of me.
- Tracy Morgan
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Image of Robert Shaw
You never know who's going to be in the audience. You never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the first time, and you never know who is going to be hearing that piece for the last time.
- Robert Shaw
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Image of Moses Mendelssohn
Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.
- Moses Mendelssohn
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Image of Laurence Shames
I've never written a hard journalism piece in my life. I've never wanted to do that.
- Laurence Shames
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Image of Fred Green
The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn't belong to anyone, ever.
- Fred Green
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Image of Curt Flood
I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.
- Curt Flood
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Image of Guy Fieri
You dont have to eat a whole cheeseburger, just take a piece of the cheeseburger.
- Guy Fieri
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Image of Rob Long
Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought "What a piece of crap?"
- Rob Long
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Image of Emilio Pucci
We are in a very strange way going back to the mentality of the time when Americans went in covered wagons. I imagine they had a piece of cloth, and the piece of furniture they carried with them meant to be a good piece of wood, and sturdy. We're going back to that.
- Emilio Pucci
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Image of Chris Cunningham
I listen to a piece of music and really get inside it and let it suggest a little universe to create.
- Chris Cunningham
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Image of Theresa Grentz
When you have Jessica Davenport in the middle, with some very, very good shooters around her and a good point guard, they have the pieces
- Theresa Grentz
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Image of Mark Dvoretsky
In positions of strategic manoeuvring (where time is not of decisive importance) seek the worst-placed piece. Activating that piece is often the most reliable way of improving your position as a whole.
- Mark Dvoretsky
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Image of Derek Bailey
Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.
- Derek Bailey
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Image of Joan Acocella
The virtue of a piece is the writer’s thoughts.
- Joan Acocella
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Image of Ernest Gaines
And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.
- Ernest Gaines
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Image of Paloma Picasso
A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.
- Paloma Picasso
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Image of Richard MacDonald
At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.
- Richard MacDonald
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Image of Frederick Seidel
Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you.
- Frederick Seidel
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Image of Mike Teti
Go as hard as you can on the first piece and then pray that you get switched. Repeat.
- Mike Teti
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Image of Lucy R. Lippard
A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.
- Lucy R. Lippard
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