Piece Quotes

An evil person is like a piece of coal: if it doesn't burn, it blackens you. (Anacharsis)

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

Erma Bombeck

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

William Shakespeare

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

Norman Cousins

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

Christian Dior

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Robert Benchley

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Ludwig Erhard

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

Alfred Hitchcock

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

Alan Rickman

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo. (José Martí)

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

William Hazlitt

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

W. Somerset Maugham

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

Neil Armstrong

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

George Harrison

We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

Mother Teresa

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Thomas Browne

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

Erma Bombeck

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

Spike Milligan

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

Barack Obama

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit. (Arthur Miller)

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Jean Cocteau

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

Alfred Brendel

Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.

Charlie Chaplin

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

Minoru Yamasaki

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