Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Kazin

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history....

Adrienne Clarkson

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.

But there were just some little pieces that didn't get put together,

I don't think any one of these is the solution. It's going to be a combination of them all. This is just a big puzzle and we need to put all the pieces together.

Carson McCullers

Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.

David Christian

I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me".

David Antin

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

Anatoly Karpov

It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.

Chuck Close

If you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces.

Christopher Moore

Life is messy. Would that every puzzle piece fell into place, every word was kind, every accident happy, but such is not the case. Life is messy

Ambrose Bierce

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Richard King

I have done some short pieces that are not horror.

Douglas Rushkoff

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

Dodie Smith

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

Dani Shapiro

I did want to feel like life's all of one piece.

Daniela Pestova

But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it's hard to say no. I can't even have one piece, because when I start, I don't stop.

Curt Flood

I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.

Corita Kent

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

Alfred Brendel

If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

Alfred de Vigny

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

Jimmy Johnson

There are so many pieces to the puzzle,

Here we put all the pieces of the puzzle together.

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

John W. Gardner

We're trying to put the pieces together. To be where we are right now? At the start of the season, you'd take that in a second.

Thomas Frank

We're trying to put all the pieces together.

Turlock was a very seasoned team. We've only been going for about a week. I'm very proud of my guys. We're still putting the pieces of the puzzle together.

There are just so many pieces of it that right now arent right,

There has been a big trend toward integrating all the pieces of a transportation solution.

We're trying to find the right pieces to the puzzle.

Bill Gates

Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.

Bill Gates

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

Calista Flockhart

I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.

We're starting to get some of the puzzle pieces together.