Pieces Quotes - Page 30

Oh, you know record companies. . . at the end of the day, it's business. If you analyse it, you're just a piece of meat. The minute you go bad, it's: 'Next!'.

I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.

I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece.

In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature, but, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.” “Yeah,” said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.

I will buy six pieces or so a day and just snack on them. Sometimes I wrap them up in my mini seaweed sheets.

Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.

I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.

Trying to hit Phil Niekro is like trying to eat jello with chopsticks. Sometimes you get a piece but most of the time you get hungry.

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich' or 'North Country.' They were both so amazing and so inspiring. I would love to touch someone in the way their performances touched me.

A single test which proves some piece of theory wrong is more valuable than a hundred tests showing that idea might be true.

In my theater pieces, I would do "Tits on the Head" - Polaroid photos for $10 on the stage. There would be a line of folks paying me $10 for their turn. It was public prostitution. I turned my whole audience into johns. But because it was in a theater context, an art context, it was socially acceptable.

Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.

I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.

Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.