Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Murray

But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?

Gilbert Highet

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

Jeanette Winterson

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

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.

George Herbert

A piece of a Churchyard fits everybody.

George Orwell

How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?

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.

Igor Stravinsky

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

Guy Fieri

You dont have to eat a whole cheeseburger, just take a piece of the cheeseburger.

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.

Breakups, sales within pieces of the business, are off the table.

These big pieces and headdresses, I see them more as abstractions than as subjects.

That's what we're talking about, ... in terms of putting the pieces of this together.

We've questioned everyone we could, ran down every lead, and we still have no answers. What can we do? There are pieces of these puzzles missing, and we just don't have them yet.

We've been steady, just like we have been. It's about putting the pieces together.

W. S. Gilbert

We feel we have all the pieces of the puzzle here.

We saw them getting little pieces of mussels that got broken.

I just want something different. They're kind of like show bikes. They're like pieces of art.

James E. Faust

We perhaps need to snatch happiness in little pieces, learning to recognize the elements of happiness and then treasuring them while they last.

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.

Jay Roach

I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

Jessica Pare

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

Ian Frazier

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

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.

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.

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