Piece Quotes - page 7

In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, - and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece. View quote
Gillian Anderson
If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.(page 10) View quote
Brené Brown
For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a Winter Journey, Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen: and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time. View quote
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece. View quote
Hedda Hopper
There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written. View quote
Bill Gates
We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece. View quote
Sarah Dessen
The earth is a great piece of stupidity. View quote
Victor Hugo
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it. View quote
Jean Fautrier
The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made, it can always be erased and changed. If the practical-reactor designer errs, he wears the mistake around his neck; it cannot be erased. Everyone sees it. View quote
Hyman G. Rickover
To give this activity even covert support is of a piece with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world-nor on our own consciences. (J. William Fulbright)
Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive. View quote
Shimon Peres
It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race. View quote
Liam Neeson
Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon. That night he had a stomach ache. View quote
Eric Carle
If you have goals and the stick-with-it-ness to make things happen, people will feel threatened by you, especially if your goals don't include them. They believe that if you take a piece of pie, then that leaves less pie for them. Seeing you follow your dreams leaves them realizing that they're not following theirs. In truth, there is unlimited pie for everyone! View quote
RuPaul
Would you render the same level of support to someone who hadn't conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their line officer in order to neutralize the combat capacity of their unit? ... Conscientious objection removes a given piece of the cannon fodder from the fray; fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect. View quote
Ward Churchill
I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece. View quote
Edwin Meese
We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go. (Pat Paulsen)
The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces. Therefore the most beautiful and amazing moves, for me, are those with which a piece, counteracting the gravitational force of the center, suddenly fly to the edge of the board. View quote
Ashot Nadanian
When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. View quote
Sherman Alexie
And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God. View quote
Sherman Alexie
The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience. View quote
Ned Rorem