Pieces Quotes - Page 16

• You almost hold up your piece of paper and say, ‘The girl I like just gave me a treasure map to herself.’ But you don’t. You just don’t.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Paper, Maps

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• Always remember, the person we’re really working for is the person who’s restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He’s the one we want to impress.

  Donna Tartt

  Years, Want, Remember

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• My heart is broken,” she goes. “It’s turned to a piece of stone. I’m no good. That’s what’s as bad as anything, that I’m no good anymore.

  Raymond Carver

  Heart, Broken, Stones

  Raymond Carver (2015). “Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories”, p.131, Vintage

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• I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark.

  Andrea Gibson

  Home, Writing, Heart

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• I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Rope, Admire

  1897 Of Cecil Rhodes. Following the Equator, ch.2.

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• You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

  John Updike

  Inspirational, Graduation, Hands

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• Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie.

  Irving Berlin

  Coffee, Food, Pie

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• When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

  James M. Barrie

  Birthday, Baby, Laughter

  Peter Pan act 1 (1928)

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• There will be an enduring role for the 'soft' side of planning. The piece that deals with meaning, identity and ideas. This is the slightly intangible piece that creative agencies hold at their heart.

  John Woodward

  Business, Heart, Agency

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• History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Writing, History, Paper

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• But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays
  Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days;
  Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays,
  And one by one back in the Closet lays.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Moving, Night

  Omar Khayyam, Saʻdī (1900). “Persian Literature: Comprising the Sháh Námeh, the Rubáiyát, the Divan and the Gulistan”

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• All ye that pass by!
  While we least think it he prepares his Mate.
  Mate, and the King's pawn played, it never ceases,
  Though all the earth is dust of taken pieces.

  John Masefield

  Life, Kings, Taken

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• Love is just a piece of time
  in the world
  in the world
  And I couldn't help but fall in love again

  Zooey Deschanel

  Life, Falling In Love, Love Is

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• O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart
  Piece of the puzzle, you're my missing part
  Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?

  Zooey Deschanel

  Life, Heart, Old Habits

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• I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Music, Writing, Men

  "Working with Vaughan Williams: the correspondence of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Roy Douglas".

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• It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen. They must be constructed....To demonstrate any formal idea in music, whether structure or stricture, is a matter of construction, in which the methodology is the controlling metaphor of the composition...Only by 'unfixing' the elements traditionally used to construct a piece of music could the sounds exist in themselves--not as symbols, or memories which were memories of other music to begin with.

  Morton Feldman

  Music, Memories, Ideas

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music" by Richard Kostelanetz, Joseph Darby, 1996.

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• I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

  Thelonious Monk

  Music, Jazz, Formulas

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• Those of you who come in with me now will receive a big piece of the pie. Those of you who delay, and commit yourselves later, will receive a smaller piece of pie. Those of you who don't come in at all will receive - Good Government!

  Huey Long

  Government, Pie, Political

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• Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Power, Names, Half

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• You are my glue. Without you, I'd be nothing but broken pieces.

  Miley Cyrus

  Romantic, Broken, Romance

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• Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.

  Charles Kettering

  Crazy, Work, Science

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• Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

  Sigmund Freud

  Truth, Honesty, Jigsaw Puzzles

  SIGMUND FREUD (1939). “MOSES AND MONOTHEISM”

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• Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.

  Charles Jaffe

  Business, Cutting, Two

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• Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'.

  Edward de Bono

  Change, Thinking, Perception

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• In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse of the play, its driving force, and is basic to all plot structures...In any true piece of art...the beginning and the end are, or should be, polar in principle. All the main qualities of the first section should transform themselves into their opposites in the last section.

  Michael Chekhov

  Art, Opposites, Play

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