Famous Quotes & Sayings

How long you are going to live in a place? How much do you have to invest? Will the pieces you have work?

Horace Walpole

Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.

Flip Saunders

I don't see any holes. I think all the pieces are there.

Faith Prince

My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.

Faith Popcorn

Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution.

It's like a little piece of your world is gone. That's how it feels.

It was a piece of stupidity on my part,

Ian Frazier

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

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.

Kara Walker

A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma—that push and pull—is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make.

Jo Brand

I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.

John Cage

My favorite piece of music is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

Quentin Tarantino

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

Moses Mendelssohn

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

Nate Berkus

I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.

Nate Berkus

When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

Jose Carreras

It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.

Joni Mitchell

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

Madeleine Stowe

In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.

Rudy Gay

All the pieces of the puzzle are together now.

All the pieces of the puzzle are right there for them.

Michael Gregory

all the pieces of evidence, all the statements that have been reviewed, all the witnesses that have been spoken to.

John Hockenberry

An object imbued with intent — it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent — it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.

Johann Georg Hamann

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole.

James McAvoy

I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920.

Jim Morrison

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

Eric Davis

Most of the places I've been, I've been a main piece of the puzzle.

Jim Rohn

Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day.

Emily Procter

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

Elliott Carter

Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.

John Corigliano

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.