Piece Quotes - page 2

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish. (John Jakes)
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, ''How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style'' and avoid ''How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece'' View quote
James Thurber
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.... Read it a hundred times it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went. View quote
Robert Frost
Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding. View quote
Jason Statham
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry - not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me. View quote
Imelda Marcos
Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, 'Are you full inside' Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, 'I am quite full inside that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me.' View quote
Charles Lamb
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. View quote
Richard Feynman
Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers. View quote
Andy Grove
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. View quote
Audre Lorde
In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work. View quote
Vitruvius
Measure a man by his actions fully, from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about, because you know better than that. View quote
Tupac Shakur
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process. View quote
Abel Ferrara
When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything. (Norton Juster)
When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it. View quote
Rose Tremain
You dont have to eat a whole cheeseburger, just take a piece of the cheeseburger. View quote
Guy Fieri
Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it's the very last piece, but you let him have it. View quote
E. Lockhart
I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we dont always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel. View quote
Amy Bloom