Pieces Quotes - Page 32

• I'm glad I made a piece of art that can be interpreted so widely. Art is always interpreted subjectively

  Paula Cole

  Art, Made, Glad

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• When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way

  John Zorn

  Writing, Trying, Way

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• The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later.

  John Cage

  White, Firsts, Painting

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.112, Wesleyan University Press

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• 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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Humorous, Taste And Judgment

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.

  Harry Houdini

  Wall, Pain, Bruises

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• The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.

  Tony Blair

  Order, Nwo, World

  Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001

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• To me, that's one of the things that I love about doing this stuff. One day I can work on this piece in watercolor, and then work on something else on the computer, or work on something else that's a completely different approach

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  One Day, Different, Stuff

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• What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information.

  Sally Mann

  Photography, Different, Information

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• There is an island fantasy A "Someday I'll," we'll never see When recession stops, inflation ceases Our mortgage is paid, our pay increases That Someday I'll where problems end Where every piece of mail is from a friend Where the children are sweet and already grown . . . . Most unhappy people . . . put happiness on "law away" And struggle through a blue today . . . . Life's most important revelation Is that the journey means more than the destination . . .

  Denis Waitley

  Sweet, Children, Struggle

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• Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing a law and voting some money. I think of this as the vending machine concept of social change. Put a coin in the machine and out comes a piece of candy. If there is a social problem, pass a law and out comes a solution.

  John W. Gardner

  Believe, Thinking, Law

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• I made a French film called "Merry Christmas" which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

  Diane Kruger

  Christmas, War, Europe

  "Diane Kruger for 'Troy'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. May 6, 2004.

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• When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

  Robert Wyatt

  Music, Mother, Baby

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• Creative people have an abiding curiosity and an insatiable desire to learn how and why things work. They take nothing for granted. They are interested in things around them and tend to stow away bits and pieces of information in their minds for the future use. And, they have a great ability to mobilize their thinking and experiences for use in solving a new problem.

  William Redington Hewlett

  Thinking, People, Creative

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• There's one little room in my house which is filled with all my clutter and bits and pieces. My sewing machine is up there, and all my knitting stuff. Its a place where I can go to relax and unwind. I don't get to spend a lot of time up there, but at least I know its there.

  Julia Roberts

  Knitting, House, Relax

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• [If] you are ready enough to pull my knitting to pieces, but provide none of your own, the only sock is a sock in the jaw!

  J. R. Ackerley

  Knitting, Criticism, Enough

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• The eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Judging, Pudding, May

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• My brethren, let me say, be like Christ at all times. Imitate him in "public." Most of us live in some sort of public capacity-many of us are called to work before our fellow-men every day. We are watched; our words are caught; our lives are examined-taken to pieces. The eagle-eyed, argus-eyed world observes everything we do, and sharp critics are upon us. Let us live the life of Christ in public. Let us take care that we exhibit our Master, and not ourselves-so that we can say, "It is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me."

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Live Life, Taken

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• It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Years, Done

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• Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.

  William Ernest Henley

  Death, Dying, Rooms

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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• The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. We can never say that we are simply falling to pieces or that anyone else is, and we can never say that about the world either. Within our lifetime there will be great problems in the world, but let us make sure than within our lifetime do disasters happen. We can prevent them. It is up to us.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Giving Up, Fall, Essence

  Chogyam Trungpa (2009). “Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• Every woman deserves a man that can make her heart forget that it was ever broken. Even if these have been broken to pieces to me,this represents a person who gave me a complete,flawless heart. I don't need someone who makes my heart whole. Instead, I need someone who will never let me feel broken. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Mean, Men

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• As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Life, Art, Morning

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2004). “Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery”

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• Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Happiness, Mercury, Hard

  Mary Higgins Clark (2008). “Kitchen Privileges”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Know your limits, not so that you can honor them, but so that you can smash them to pieces and reach for magnificence.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Motivational, Honor, Magnificence

  Cherie Carter-Scott (1999). “If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul”, p.132, Harmony

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• You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.

  John Ruskin

  Cute, Girl, Flower

  John Ruskin (2006). “Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures”, p.125, Cosimo, Inc.

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