Pieces Quotes

A piece of cloth that is called "linen" has more validity than calling you and me "black" or "negro." "Cotton" has more validity as cotton than yours and my being "black."

Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to Bartók - some chamber pieces, and that's my enrichment.

I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose.

More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if i wasn't alone.

The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.

I never had a piece of toast particularly long and wide, But fell upon the sanded floor, And always on the buttered side.

I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.

I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.

I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is there from loved ones, you'll find that later, that true self will come out.

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

Wood's not natural mulch for a woodland garden. Do you see forest trees shatter into a zillion pieces and fall? No. They fall, then decompose, then spread.

I don't like literal spaces, I don't like literal anything. I still like some kind of guess work but some pieces work and they just pop.

Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5 billion pieces of candy.

Lately, I just let myself eat it more because I think, 'Oh, my God, a piece of cheese tastes so good'. I think it's your body telling you something.

Turn the paper. A piece looks better if every mark is not made while the surface is in the same orientation.

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

There's no real formula for doing it, it's either just living life and writing down a joke you think of in the middle of the day and then pieces those together later.

A rare piece of magic, don't let it FLY by you

I did buy a new piece of furniture so it's like, "Oh, that's something new." But generally my goals are made in the fall.

The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after them Gordon was a piece of cake.

...they were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything else magically click into place.

The last few weeks, it was as if someone had taken his life to pieces and let him see the way it worked.

The concept of having staple pieces with clean, basic lines, and adding accessories to funk it all up is one that applies to both fashion and decorating. There are so many parallels.

Part of what I'm doing with generations is that I try to express in my work pieces of my growing up years that I can look back on with great fondness - specifically, a sense of family.

Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.

There are a lot of male directors who are directing female-driven pieces. I think that its good to get the girl's point of view and they should write stuff that they know.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

Get involved and learn how to recognise a story happening in front of you. Learn how to ask questions and be curious. That's probably my biggest piece of advice.

Strength is the ability to break up a solid piece of chocolate—and then eat just one of the pieces.

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.

The virtue of a piece is the writer’s thoughts.

I'm a woman for all seasons. I mix 'n' match, do designer and high street - keep all my good pieces. I design all my evening and cocktail dresses most of the time as I dislike what is out there.

The last sentence in a piece is another adventure. It should open the piece up.

Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.

There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece of music. And there are books of poems that I love so much that I carry them around with me.

A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

But my favorite work is always my next piece.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]

The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later.

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.

The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.

The image onscreen takes you forward, it's the driving force of the piece and it's also the information that you're given.