Famous Quotes & Sayings

It has become a lifestyle, a piece of the way we live.

Alfred Kazin

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history....

Alexander Herzen

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

Anna Sui

There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about.

Dodie Smith

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

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 de Vigny

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Douglas Rushkoff

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

Richard King

I have done some short pieces that are not horror.

James Cameron

Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.

Adrienne Clarkson

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.

Adrian Grenier

That's what we do on 'Entourage.' We embed ourselves in legitimate authentic moments so wherever the action is happening, we're taking pieces from that red carpet.

Alejandro Amenabar

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Alexander Wang

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

David Christian

I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me".

David Antin

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

Curt Flood

I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.

Corita Kent

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

Ambrose Bierce

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Dani Shapiro

I did want to feel like life's all of one piece.

Daniela Pestova

But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it's hard to say no. I can't even have one piece, because when I start, I don't stop.

Anatoly Karpov

It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.

Gillian Alexy

'West' is one of those scripts that, when it came out, everyone wanted a piece of it and everyone wanted to be involved in it.

Chuck Close

If you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces.

Christopher Moore

Life is messy. Would that every puzzle piece fell into place, every word was kind, every accident happy, but such is not the case. Life is messy

These big pieces and headdresses, I see them more as abstractions than as subjects.

The second piece is the volume, (which tells you) how many shares were actually part of this trade. The third part is the price at which the trade was transacted.

The more pieces you have to a process, the more expensive.

Sebastian Thrun

This car, to me, is really a piece of history.

It's not humanly possible to have every piece of plastic and scrap of treated wood out of the waste.

It's the little pieces that make up the whole. It's the team.

It's a piece of legislation that comes out of the blue.

It's a really important piece of the puzzle for us.