Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

And so do you suppose it must be a piece-work because it has been given to you (and could only be given to you) in pieces?

Franz Kafka

Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.

Franz Kafka

The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me.

Breakups, sales within pieces of the business, are off the table.

Now, everyone wants a piece of the pie,

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.

That's what we're talking about, ... in terms of putting the pieces of this together.

That's going to be a big piece of (the lawsuit).

Summer Phoenix

I've never had a diamond before, and now I've got a diamond surrounded by other diamonds and diamonds in places where, frankly, you don't need diamonds at all, and I would have been happy with a piece of twine.

We've questioned everyone we could, ran down every lead, and we still have no answers. What can we do? There are pieces of these puzzles missing, and we just don't have them yet.

We've been steady, just like we have been. It's about putting the pieces together.

We just want a piece of the pie. That's all.

There's no silver bullet, there's no silver lining. But it's another piece of the puzzle we're trying to put together.

W. S. Gilbert

We feel we have all the pieces of the puzzle here.

We saw them getting little pieces of mussels that got broken.

I'm not saying it was a piece of cake, ... but you're willing to step up and do it.

This is a very complicated puzzle to try to piece together.

This is just a piece of tin, a medal. But at least we have something.

This is just a piece of garbage. I wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole.

Bob Arum

After that, it's been a piece of cake.

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

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

I just want something different. They're kind of like show bikes. They're like pieces of art.

Lillian Smith

Each of us has a piece of the puzzle,

It was a piece of stupidity on my part,

Not at all. Not one piece of me would have said that at any level.

If you have a long-term perspective, you don't react to every piece of news.

Richard Serra

I pointed out the window and said I would put a 40-foot tall piece right there. I wasn't even 30 yet.

James E. Faust

We perhaps need to snatch happiness in little pieces, learning to recognize the elements of happiness and then treasuring them while they last.

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 to hit you.

Every piece of music is not for everybody.

Jay Roach

I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.