Pieces Quotes - Page 15

It's just that it's impossible to be a broken or whole person. You can only be a person. You can only exist, you can only belong to yourself, and you can only be responsible for your own happiness or belonging or whatever. That broken-part-piece-whole thing is just a trick of the mortal mind.

There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of self-oblivionorself-contempt. That's calmly to turn away from everything, to say, "Enough!" and, folding one's useless arms across one's empty breast, to retain the ultimate, the sole attainable virtue, the virtue of recognizing one's own insignificance.

After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me.

Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word that I agree with. It was in a piece that tore me apart for my personal behavior, but the writer said that when the music began and I started to sing, I was "honest."

A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.

I am delighted that I have found a new reaction to demonstrate even to the blind the structure of the interstitial stroma of the cerebral cortex. I let the silver nitrate react with pieces of brain hardened in potassium dichromate. I have already obtained magnificent results and hope to do even better in the future.

You're not the only piece of patchwork birds can pull worms from.

Martial sex is kinda like ordering a Civil War chess set through the mail. You get one piece every four to six weeks, you don't know what kind of shape that piece is gonna be in when you get it, but you still gotta pay the handling charges.

In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish - that is their strength.

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

What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?

Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don’t take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I’m about because you know better than that.

Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction.

I'm more than just a piece in their Games.

I bought a cheap piece of land... It was on someone else’s property.

A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them.

None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.

I have often read critical pieces where the critic said that what the composer was trying to do didn't come off. I have wondered what the critic meant if he didn't know what the composer was trying to do.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.

I can't just listen to music walking down the street unless I have a reason to. I can't just listen to music as a piece of junk in the background. It drives me insane.