Piece Quotes

• As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Affectation
  • Whiskers

• If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Dignity
  • Piece
  • Homespun

• Remember to leave a little piece of your heart everywhere you go.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Heart
  • Leave
  • Everywhere

• To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

  

  Cordell Hull
  • Work
  • Determination
  • Machinery

• The world is a holographic universe, with every piece containing the whole.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Universe
  • Piece

• You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Fingers
  • Piece
  • Cultivate

• We really had the whole piece laid out in like a Word file, just from beginning to end. It was kind of more like your creative-writing class in school. You know, you have the outline and then you just kind of plug the stuff in the little map you've made.

  

  David Wallace Crowder
  • School
  • Stuff
  • Word

• I get to create the music live and record it on the spot as loops and samples, but then I get to recompose and manipulate what I physically played into a piece separate from the loops I just recorded.

  

  Tyondai Braxton Battles
  • Music
  • Piece
  • Loops

• The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

  

  Rumi
  • God
  • Truth
  • Mirror

• Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

  

  Nick Hornby
  • Yourself
  • Piece
  • Rebuild

• I am not a piece of hash. I'm in charge of Factory Records. I think.

  

  TONY Wilson Musician Hot Chocolate
  • Charge
  • Hashish
  • Factory Records

• Any character that you come up with or create is a piece of you. You're putting yourself into that character, but there's the guise of the character. So there's a certain amount of safety in the character, where you feel more safe being the character than you do being just you...

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Character
  • Piece

• The only thing that can break a piece of Valentine candy is another piece of Valentine candy.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Break
  • Candy
  • Piece

• May 16, 1998: Rumor’s going around that a researcher who tried to escape the estate last night was shot. My entire body feels hot and itchy and I’m sweating all the time now. I scratched the swelling on my arm and a piece of rotten flesh just dropped off. Wasn’t until I realized the smell was making me hungry that I got violently sick. The writing had become shaky. Chris turned the page, and could barely read the last few lines, the words scrawled haphazardly across the paper. May 19. Fever gone but itchy. Hungry and eat doggie food. Itchy itchy Scott came ugly face so killed him. Tasty. 4 // Itchy. Tasty.

  

  S. D. Perry
  • Escape
  • Hungry
  • Researcher

• If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Genius
  • Piece

• Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

  

  George Meany
  • Congress
  • Label
  • Legislation

• It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.

  

  Steve Morse
  • Difficult
  • Happens
  • Actually

• The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Fact
  • Flesh
  • Mike Tyson

• I think, by and large, the way big social change happens is every individual person taking on whatever little piece they can take on.

  

  Eugene Puryear
  • Change
  • Person
  • Social

• In front of the coffee tablethere is a neon-pink stump stool, which I bought because my friend Amanda Brooks told me that every house has to have a 'wart,' or one really ugly piece.

  

  Lauren Santo Domingo
  • House
  • Friend
  • Ugly

• It turns out that viruses evolve from each other, like everything else. So if you look at the evolutionary tree of viruses, you can find parts of their genome that haven't changed over evolutionary time. You can recognize what may be a new virus by identifying this little piece of their genome that hasn't changed and is represented on the chip.

  

  Joseph DeRisi
  • VIrus
  • Genome
  • Identifying

• There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Glory
  • Hearts
  • Souls

• I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who plays a Schubert sonata through his whole lifetime - if you listen to Rubenstein or Horowitz playing their repertoire later in their life, you understand the richness with which they play that music, and how differently they must have played it when they were younger.

  

  Philip Glass
  • Life
  • Music
  • Learning

• Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Literature
  • Piece
  • Darth Vader

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