Pieces Quotes - Page 11

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I'm subjecting myself to a scheme.

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

You can have diabetes and have a piece of cake. You cannot have diabetes and eat a whole cake.

I pretty much built a band out of the most incredible guys I could possibly find. I didn't really want a six-piece band, but it just ended up being a six-piece band because these guys are all awesome.

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.

Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing . . . out of which you can’t make anything.

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it`s a conversation piece.

Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first room and it's dark, completely dark. You stumble around, bumping into the furniture. Gradually, you learn where each piece of furniture is. And finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch and turn it on. Suddenly, it's all illuminated and you can see exactly where you were. Then you enter the next dark room.

It is dangerous to maintain equality at the cost of placing the pieces passively.

I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.

It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.

They've healed me to pieces.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.

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.

Missing pieces do more than complete the puzzle, they fill in an empty space.

Each asana is like a piece of music that has a certain characteristic, a certain power.

It's just money; it's made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat.

The King is a fighting piece. Use it!

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.