Piece Quotes

• The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

  

  Robin Williams
  • Want
  • Yelling
  • Statue of Liberty

• When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

  

  Joshua Bell
  • Story
  • Piece
  • VIolin

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

  

  George Meany
  • Congress
  • Label
  • Legislation

• I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Rhythm
  • Piece
  • Spine

• When I set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.

  

  Simon Toyne
  • Quality
  • Entertainment
  • Piece

• The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Judge
  • Eating
  • Piece

• The humanity of the piece, the humor and insightfulness, and intelligence, they were what I read, and what I experienced when I got to see what was on the screen, ... I'm really happy with the film. In terms of my hopes and expectations, they were realized. It's a great role, and I had a great time performing it.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Time
  • Great
  • Happy

• 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

• 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
  • Genome
  • VIrus
  • Identifying

• 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

• He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Feeling
  • Broken
  • Happened

• Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Work
  • Day
  • Piece

• ...if a child waited to speak until all the grown-ups settled down and gave her some room to say her piece, the most important things would never get said.

  

  Katherine Hannigan
  • Important
  • Said
  • Settled

• 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

• He wasn't sure exactly which day, but what's noteworthy about that is that is also before Valerie Plame is first identified in the Robert Novak piece that ran on Monday, July 14.

  

  Michael Isikoff
  • Before
  • Monday
  • Exactly

• This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as "I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world."

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Existence
  • Clear
  • Glance

• The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten minutes too much? No one knows. Perhaps someday the question will be answered-we'll find out that thirteen minutes is the perfect length for a training piece when preparing for a 2000 meter race. Until then, coaches will continue exploring the whole scale, up and down, from thirty seconds to sixty minutes and more, in hopes of capturing the optimum time.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Training
  • Coaches
  • Optimum

• I think it's okay that there's digital music out there, because that does mean more people have access. I mean, you're a student, and you're studying music, and you want to find a CD of a whole work, but there's one piece that intrigues you. It's easy to get that piece for a dollar for the most part. And it's so easy for people to carry around music digitally.

  

  Gail Zappa
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Students

• I like to go for a certain over-the-top opulence when naming the drone pieces whereas the song titles are all about concision, I guess. I mean, if I were truly a purist, I'd call things, "Long Piece #27" or "Newest Fast Song", but I enjoy titling and it is helpful at rehearsals or when making set-lists.

  

  David First
  • Song
  • Certain
  • Helpful

• 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

• The earth is one big interconnected entity. If you hurt a piece, you hurt the whole. If you hurt the people, you hurt the environment.

  

  Hannah Teter
  • People
  • Earth
  • Environment

• A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.

  

  Charles Edison
  • Diamond
  • Piece
  • Coal

• Basketball is always a piece of my life, but never the centerpiece.

  

  Rebecca Lobo
  • Life
  • Basketball
  • Piece

• She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me — and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I knew: this is how it must be. I knew it with every nerve, and every hair, every heartbeat, so sweet it verged on pain. And what joy to submit to this 'must'. A piece of iron must feel such joy as it submits to the precise, inevitable law that draws it to a magnet. Or a stone, thrown up, hesitating a moment, then plunging headlong back to earth. Or a man, after the final agony, taking a last deep breath — and dying.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Law
  • Inevitable
  • Iron

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