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.

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

Harry Connick, Jr.

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.

Grant Show

I remember the very first suit I bought. It was a three-piece denim suit with bell-bottoms.

Jeannette Walls

In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it.

Jerry Spinelli

I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.

Miguel de Cervantes

Translation from one language to another is like viewing a piece of tapestry on the wrong side where though the figures are distinguishable yet there are so many ends and threads that the beauty and exactness of the work is obscured.

John Noble

We didn't know until really quite late in the piece how Joel [Wyman] would finish it off.

Ted Rall

The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.

Margaret J. Wheatley

A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.

Matt Lucas

It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages.

Maurice Ravel

I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.

Marina Abramovic

For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.

Paul Weller

I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous piece

Mary E. Pearson

Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?

Morris Chestnut

I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it, because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.

Nobuo Uematsu

There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.

Michael Reagan

Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening.

Menander

Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.

Mick Fleetwood

Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Dev-"Come in peace or leave in pieces

Nik Wallenda

If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.

Nick Stahl

In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.

Matt Damon

It's intuitive in terms of when I read a piece of material or I hear about a project. I'm a writer, so I've written movies. I've read at this point thousands and thousands and thousands of screenplays. So if something gets me, then I don't ignore that.

Nancy Pearcey

The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

It's been there in the past. We just have to put all the pieces together.

It's an allegorical kind of piece symbolic of many different times.

Lillian Smith

Each of us has a piece of the puzzle,

Mark Recchi

I want to be a piece of the puzzle on a winning club.

They can't pound the puzzle together. The pieces have to fit.

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