Pieces Quotes - Page 35

• And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Men, Soul, Care

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2006). “Micah: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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• Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

  Virginia Woolf

  Nature, Tears, Together

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.13, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I'm terrible at jigsaw puzzles. Other people solve the puzzle but I just keep trying to make the pieces that don't fit fit. I guess that's what makes me special, I try to assemble jigsaw puzzles incorrectly.

  Thom Yorke

  Jigsaw Puzzles, People, Special

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• Then there were the shabti, magical figurines that were supposed to come to life when summoned. A few months ago, I’d fallen for a girl named Zia Rashid, who’d turned out to be a shabti. Falling in love for the first time had been hard enough. But when the girl you like turns out to be ceramic and cracks to pieces before your eyes—well, it gives “breaking your heart” a new meaning.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Falling In Love, Heart

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.419, Penguin UK

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• A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design involving the entire course of history and all of time and space that, for some unfathomable reason, chose to work out its designs with cats and croquet mallets and penwipers, to say nothing of the dog. And a hideous piece of Victorian artwork. And us.

  Connie Willis

  Dog, Cat, Space

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.479, Bantam

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• Being in love means you are completely broken, then put back together. The one piece that was yours is beating in your lover's breast. She says the same thing about hers.

  Jason Molina

  Mean, Being In Love, Broken

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• The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.

  John Grisham

  Teacher, Book, School

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• If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Sacrifice, Ifs

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• This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Support, Supplements

  Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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• I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself. Take a musician like John Coltrane. He is a perfect musician, who can give expression to all the possibilities of his instrument. But he seems to have difficulty expressing original ideas on it. That is why he keeps looking for ideas in exotic places. At least I don't have that problem, because, like I say, I find my inspiration in myself.

  Thelonious Monk

  Inspiration, Expression, Ideas

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• I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens, absorbed by a passive individual enjoying an especially receptive moment. While that may be the case on rare occasions, the reality is usually far more prosaic. Staring at a blank piece of paper, I can't think of anything original. I feel utterly uninspired and unreceptive. It's the familiar malaise of 'artist's block' and in such circumstances there is only one thing to do: just start drawing.

  Shaun Tan

  Block, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

  Jose Saramago

  Military, Land, Flags

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• We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Rivers, Water, Woods

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• The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a desire to separate a piece of one's experience & set it up on its own, an isolated object never to trouble you again, at least not for a bit. In the absence of this impulse nothing stirs.

  Philip Larkin

  Ideas, Feelings, Desire

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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