Pieces Quotes - Page 29

Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.

Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.

There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.

I love dark chocolate, but I will have a piece just occasionally.

The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it

In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.

Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.

I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.

a sensation is always the same as a piece of news, and a piece of news never lives long.

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

I don't really collect anything. I mean, if I see a piece of Moxie soda memorabilia, I'll probably buy it. I'm a sucker for regional soda brands and forgotten histories and that sort of thing.

It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or a quotation of an Author, passes for a mighty argument.... This weakness and effeminacy of mankind in being persuaded where they are delighted, have made them the sport of orators, poets, and men of wit.

I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.

I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

You're heading for a breakdown. Why don't you pull yourself to pieces?

It can be a work by Mondrian, a piece of music by Schönberg or Mozart, a painting by Leonardo, Barnett Newman or also Jackson Pollock. That's beautiful to me. But also nature. A person can be beautiful as well. And beauty is also defined as 'untouched'. Indeed, that's an ideal: that we humans are untouched and therefore beautiful.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

When I wrote that [Donald] Trump piece, I had this uncomfortable experience of sensing a lot of things that were nascent, that I couldn't quite articulate. And one of them was this move toward anti-intellectualism. An anti-love move, even.

Try for a record of emotion, rather than a piece of topography.

The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.