Pieces Quotes - Page 23

• The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian, Bulgarian, Austrian and German home fronts fell to pieces before their armies collapsed.

  David Lloyd George

  War, Home, Army

  David Lloyd George “War Memoirs of David Lloyd George: 1918”

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• Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative, as a brief for postmodernism. The advance, while opening new avenues of expression and liberating deep pools of talent, has not exploded human nature into little pieces. Instead, it has set the stage for a fuller exploration of the universal traits that unite humanity.

  E. O. Wilson

  Expression, Voice, Feminist

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• Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me.... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.

  Bea Arthur

  Animal, Hands, Years

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• I wish that we lived in a time and a generation where people would stop viewing my honesty as overly emotional. People always act like I spend my life crying in a dark room. I don't, I'm good. I'm a man. I want to be remembered as an artist that gave you a piece of me, as opposed to some surface bullshit. I don't think people realize that we die, we leave here, and either they forget about you or remember you. And how they remember you is up to you. I just want to be remembered as a poet that was open and honest because I wake up every morning and I'm me.

  Drake

  Morning, Honesty, Real

  Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. November 11, 2011.

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• During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on one book at a time, though occasionally I will get an idea for a future book and scribble it down for future reference.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Writing, Years

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• There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.

  Alanis Morissette

  Writing, Feelings, Communicate

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• I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist. Each book hopefully adds another piece to the jigsaw that is modern Scotland, asking questions about the nation's politics, economy, psyche and history ... and perhaps pointing towards its possible future.

  Ian Rankin

  Book, Writing, Asking Questions

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• I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.

  Maureen Howard

  Writing, Imagination, Together

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• In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Stars, Eye

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1987). “The Unknown Chekhov: Stories and Other Writings”

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• The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Two, Long

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.

  John Irving

  Wall, Writing, Diaries

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• A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Chess Pieces, Numbers, Boards

  José Raúl Capablanca (1921). “Chess Fundamentals”, Harcourt

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• The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very important and aggressive piece, and the beginner should realize this, and utilize his king as much as possible.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Kings, Important, Beginners

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• Although the Knight is generally considered to be on a par with the Bishop in strength, the latter piece is somehat stronger in the majority of cases in which they are opposed to each other.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Knights, Stronger, Majority

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• Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces

  Akiba Rubinstein

  Chess Pieces, Black, Tonight

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• The defensive power of a pinned piece is only imaginary

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Chess Game, Chess Pieces, Tactics

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• To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game

  Savielly Tartakower

  Sacrifice, Games, Chess Game

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• Bobby just drops the pieces and they fall on the right squares

  Miguel Najdorf

  Fall, Squares, Chess Game

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• Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents

  Yuri Balashov

  Chess Pieces, Chess Game, Opponents

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• Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Chess Pieces, Opponents, Pawns

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• The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but it is not the only possible evidence, and since people sometimes tell lies, not even the best possible evidence. Even if there were stronger grounds for refusing to attribute pain to those who do not have language, the consequences of this refusal might lead us to reject the conclusion. Human infants and young children are unable to use language. Are we to deny that a year-old child can suffer?

  Peter Singer

  Children, Pain, Lying

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.

  William Trevor

  Life, Matter, Persons

  William Trevor (1992). “Two Lives: Reading Turgenev and My House in Umbria”, Penguin Group USA

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• Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.

  Confucius

  Teacher, Skills, People

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• When we seek inspiration to help make decisions, the Lord gives gentle promptings. These require us to think, to exercise faith, to work, to struggle at times and to act. Seldom does the whole answer to a decisively important matter or complex problem come all at once. More often, it comes a piece at a time, without the end in sight.

  Richard G. Scott

  Struggle, Inspiration, Exercise

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• If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces... never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. That's the beauty of being alive... We can always start all over again. Enjoy God's amazing opportunities bestowed on us. Have faith in Him always.

  Bernadette Soubirous

  Dream, Fall, Opportunity

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