Piece Quotes - page 70

The FM channels are as popular as TV. People are hooked to the radio all day. So, when the same medium strongly publicises the piece, people are bound to keep listening to it. (Arin Paul)
It is, of course, the great forest of Epping that givs an air of serenity and tranquillity to a piece of England the Industrial Age might so easily have spoiled. View quote
Arthur Mee
Man is a piece of the universe made alive. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science, but its flank my be turned to-morrow nor any literary reputation, nor the so-called eternal names of fame, that may not be revised and condemned. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, nor a mark of haste, or botching, or a second thought but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!' View quote
Christopher Hitchens
I have a bag full of words, and when one of us comes up with a good piece of music, I look in the bag to see if anything there will fit. If nothing does, I sit down and try to put down on paper what the music makes me feel; very rarely will a piece of writing inspire a piece of music. View quote
Robert Smith (musician)
Christianity has had to give up one piece after another of what it still imagined it possessed in the way of explanations of the universe. In this development it grows more and more into an expression of what constitutes its real nature. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
He claims,' said Jenny tactfully, 'That he flew through a radioactive cloud thirty years ago and that it didn't do him any harm - thus it's all right to mine uranium. A fine piece of Australian political reasoning. View quote
Helen Garner
[S]ent this piece the other day to a few friends, I have decided to make it public in response to questions that journalists have been emailing me. Not that they will pay attention. Getting asked how Kim Jong Un is now going to sell denuclearization to the North Korean public - and asked in the tone of someone who expects it to happen - reminds me how futile it is to talk to a guild with no interest in ideological matters. View quote
Brian Reynolds Myers
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit. (Carl Van Doren)
Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap. View quote
Guy Kawasaki
The part you don't expect when you start out is all the people who come into your life wanting a piece of you, not caring about your wellbeing. The insane schedule is very difficult. Touring looks very glamourous but it's hard and gruelling - the travelling, the meet-and-greets - it was too crazy. View quote
Cheryl James
An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed. View quote
Paul Theroux
After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes. I believe that any system which produces that result violates my basic rights as a citizen and is inconsistent with the laws of the United States and of the several States. View quote
Curt Flood
I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods. View quote
Curt Flood
I often wondered what I would do if I were ever traded because it happened many, many times, and it was "part of the game." And then suddenly it happened to me. I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in the world to at that time what was probably the least liked, and by God, this is America, and I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods. View quote
Curt Flood
Look, friend, I'm really not interested in all of that, really. See I consider myself damned lucky to have been able to land my airplane at this emergency strip in one piece. View quote
Daniel James Jr.
The world is not a box, there's no lid, no doors, no cardboard flaps or locks, and everything in nature from the clouds to the rocks is a piece of the puzzle of the purpose of mankind, it's a piece of the peace that we'll find. View quote
Dawud Wharnsby
Even in stories written by exceptional writers, even when they write a well-crafted piece...the mother is a cliché, though it might be a good rendering of a cliché. View quote
Alfre Woodard
Last year I picked up the New York Times and there was a story about a kid from Dartmouth who was bragging that he never left his room, and made dates and ordered pizza with his computer. The piece de resistance of this story was that he had two roommates, and he was proud of the fact that he only talked to them by computer. (Studs Terkel)
You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together. View quote
Sarah Dessen
Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing. View quote
David Bowie
It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way. These characters are purely fiction-they're inspired by people I met-which I think gave me a certain amount of leeway that I wouldn't have had otherwise were it a verbatim piece. View quote
Lynn Nottage
We go in and try to be completely transparent with them: I am not a journalist, I'm a playwright, and I'm developing a piece that is creative and not going to be solely based on their lives but inspired by conversations that we have. View quote
Lynn Nottage