Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Allan Poe

Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.

Elbert Hubbard

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

I don't think any one of these is the solution. It's going to be a combination of them all. This is just a big puzzle and we need to put all the pieces together.

Aaron Copland

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

So he wrote on a little yellow piece of paper, 'Les Miles.'

William Wycherley

I have been toiling and moiling for the prettiest piece of china, my dear.

William John Wills

Our clothes are going to pieces fast. Send provisions as soon as possible.

Jamey Wright

We have the pieces to the puzzle. We have a lot of weapons.

We've been down this road before with non-performance of redevelopment property. I don't want to go down that road again. That's a valuable piece of property.

Alexander Wang

If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.

Aaron Koblin

When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.

Rachel Nichols

I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

David Hume

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

David Brin

Where subtlety fails us we must simply make do with cream pies.

Beatrice Wood

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

Audre Lorde

to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.

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.

Denzel Washington

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Cheryl Richardson

I will take a pie in the face any time for a worthy cause.

Charlie Munger

What's fascinating . . .is that you could now have a business that might have been selling for $10 billion where the business itself could probably not have borrowed even $100 million. But the owners of that business, because its public, could borrow many billions of dollars on their little pieces of paper- because they had these market valuations. But as a private business, the company itself couldn't borrow even 1/20th of what the individuals could borrow.

Charles Mackay

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

It is not an event; it is a piece of news.

Bernie Mac

Hugs aren't like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.

Eartha Kitt

I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

Jim Morris

When we got out of college, we wanted to save the world. And now, we are able to save a little piece of it.

Calista Flockhart

I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.

We're starting to get some of the puzzle pieces together.

We're going to do anything we can do to try to piece this puzzle together.

We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,

William Shakespeare

Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek.

Elizabeth Olsen

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

Edgar Guest

There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.