Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Keegan

Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob and left him drained of ... energy.

Juliette Lewis

With movies and TV, storytelling, it's a different medium. I really love it, but I'm one part of many, many pieces of that puzzle and a lot of it is out of my control.

Karl Lagerfeld

The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.

Moses Mendelssohn

Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.

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.

M. Ward

Even though someone has died, a piece of their spirit can still be alive. That's an exciting world for me to take music into, or to attempt to do that.

Michael Jackson

I love my fans to pieces. They're with me. They get it, you know? They get what I'm saying.

Michael Reagan

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

Marian Wright Edelman

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

Ned Rorem

The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

Neil Armstrong

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

Kelly Corrigan

I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.

Patrick Rothfuss

I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.

Paloma Picasso

A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.

Paul Celan

They've healed me to pieces.

Imelda Marcos

Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me.

Ilana Glazer

That's when you know you know somebody. When you know every piece of clothing they have in their wardrobe. That's friendship.

Igor Stravinsky

The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.

Nancy Pearcey

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

Kim Harrison

she had given me a piece of what made her life sane.

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

Michael Badnarik

The Patriot Act is the most egregious piece of legislation to ever leave Congress since the Alien and Sedition Acts, John Ashcroft and every member of Congress who voted for it should be indicted.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Dev-"Come in peace or leave in pieces

Nobuo Uematsu

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

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.

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.

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.

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?