Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,

Eartha Kitt

I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

David Hume

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

Beatrice Wood

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

Audre Lorde

to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.

Derek Bailey

Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.

Denzel Washington

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Elizabeth Olsen

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

When you're trying to put the pieces back together again, you need a lot of time and a lot of patience,

Alan Shepard

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

Charlie Munger

What's fascinating . . .is that you could now have a business that might have been selling for $10 billion where the business itself could probably not have borrowed even $100 million. But the owners of that business, because its public, could borrow many billions of dollars on their little pieces of paper- because they had these market valuations. But as a private business, the company itself couldn't borrow even 1/20th of what the individuals could borrow.

Charles Mackay

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

It is not an event; it is a piece of news.

Benjamin Franklin

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

Artur Schnabel

When a piece gets difficult, make faces.

Alexis Bledel

I've seen so many period pieces in my life, I really enjoy them so much, a lot of my favorite movies are period pieces.

Dean Koontz

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

Daniel Handler

It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.

Armistead Maupin

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life

She puts all the pieces together. I promote the tournament, work with the players. She runs the tournament.

Barbara Kruger

The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.

Barbara Kruger

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

Arthur Koestler

To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.

Jeff Adrien

We really have to start putting the pieces together.

Edward Abbey

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

Aaron Copland

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

Alexander Wang

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

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.

William John Wills

Our clothes are going to pieces fast. Send provisions as soon as possible.

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.