Pieces Quotes - Page 23

Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of an innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise. ... Each piece seems to have a life of its own. Every little piece or every big piece that I make becomes a very living thing to me, very living. I could make a million pieces; the next piece gives me a whole new thing. It is a new center. Life is total at that particular time. And that's why it's right. That reaffirms my life.

Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of tribal, family, and personal history make this book unforgettable. Doubters and Dreamers is a master-piece.

Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.

I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

When a certain piece of music penetrates a person, a resonance is set in motion and an inner voice says: "I like this resonance. It elevates me. It develops hitherto unknown possibilities in me. I don't recognize myself. This is very interesting.

How did her life live itself without her.

If you do the best work you can, the reward is ultimately your self-satisfaction - the sense that you have done the best you can. And then there's that piece of how others respond.

Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.

Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty, climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by.

I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.

Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper

Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force of love. Irreparable.

Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

A fellow with the smallest mind is the one who is usually most willing to give someone a piece of it.

I'm Tetris, Silas. All my pieces and parts are going to fit into all of your pieces and parts.

Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.

Money is just a piece of paper. Money burns. You know what I mean? Money is nothing substantial to me. You know what I mean? It's the enemy of music.

I listen to a piece of music and really get inside it and let it suggest a little universe to create.

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.