Pieces Quotes - Page 4

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.

When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

Every day I go out and climb, like a dancer who works on his dance. He probably has some goals, some pieces he would like to perform, but his main goal is to work on his dance. This is how he expresses himself. Both he and I are interested in the same thing. It’s the dance that counts.

You must be willing to take whatever pieces of life come your way and arrange them so that they work with and for you rather than against you. The key is to be willing. The willingness to arrange rather than complain or make excuses will pay off.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.

It's best to make your peace with change, before it makes pieces of you.

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

Regardless of anything, my dad wants me to "get that piece of paper!" - degree over everything.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

Ten minutes are not just one-sixth of your hourly pay; ten minutes is a piece of yourself. Divide yourself into ten units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activities. Most things still remain to be done.

The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.