Pieces Quotes - Page 49

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death.

The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on.

He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.

If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.

I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer.

the set pieces of your faces stir me - leading citizens - but not in the same way.

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems.

A movie is just like a work of art or a book or a piece of music. The intent of its maker is one thing, but its interpretation by an audience is something else. I don't stop at what the filmmaker wanted to do.

I make something I can look at and say, "That's a good piece of work, and there's some terrific directing and acting in it, and you should be proud of it."

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

I followed [Shoji] Hamada, because I guess Alix [MacKenzie] and I, we both saw the danger that lay in planning things out on paper and then simply executing them. And with Hamada there was a much more direct sense that the piece had happened in the process of making on the wheel, and that was what we wanted to do with our work. We weren't always able to do it, though.

Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.

Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them

An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.

Writers get to stay with the piece. They don't just turn the script in and somebody else takes it over and goes out and produces it and edits it and all that stuff. We stay with the piece all the way through.

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I must say that I don't love it.

The tusk is a very tactile shape, looks great among the other charms and is a cool piece that I like.

There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so youre kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When youre young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.

Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.