Pieces Quotes - Page 24

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

I'm very surprised at Carol didn't get a best picture. Todd Haynes is an Academy darling, his period pieces are nothing short of brilliant, and they hold up. And I definitely feel like Carol speaks to, even though it's set in the past, it speaks to themes we're dealing with in life right now. It's really really shocking that it didn't get it.

I want there to be a piece of me in my music, you know? I genuinely believe that's the secret of all the success that's happened (for me).

People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works.

Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.

to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.

The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver. . . . Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corruption in any country before?

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

My father owned a small piece of land. He carried it with him wherever he went.

Remember that a share of stock represents a part of a business and is not just a piece of paper.

I consider all of my pieces to be investment pieces. A dress shouldn't be worn for one season - you should be able to wear it year after year.

Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.

And to us, we're more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

It's amazing, 'cause sometimes when we're onstage, I feel like somebody's just moving the pieces. I'm just going, 'God, we don't have any control over this.' And that's magic.

I'm allergic to family occasions. Sometimes I think we'd do better as dandelion seeds-no family, no history, just floating off into the world, each on our own piece of fluff.

A kind word is no substitute for a piece of herring or a bag of oats.

If something can be explored or illuminated that would have been difficult to verbalize, that to me is what a film should be. It's like trying to explain what a piece of music is like. You can't do it.

Social democracy.. is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the timing and the sense of the piece for the theatrical experience.

A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.