Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Henry Moore

A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.

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

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.

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.

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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?

Jamaica Kincaid

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

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.

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.

Paul Celan

They've healed me to pieces.

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.

Lorraine Hansberry

Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.

Michael Jackson

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

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.

Michael Reagan

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