Pieces Quotes - Page 5

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.

Life is a puzzle. Every piece fits together to create who we are, what we do, how we feel. Every experience shapes us into who we will eventually become.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

I love sandwiches. Let's face it, life is better between two pieces of bread.

Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same.

Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe, gravity, thermodynamics, motion, how those originated. It's got some gigantic missing pieces.

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.

You can't kill the past by denying the past. You can kill it only by making it obsolete. And even in that, you have to find honor in the past. You can't hack off pieces of yourself, and expect them to grow again.

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.

The most important feature of the Chess position is the activity of the pieces. This is absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game: Opening, Middlegame and especially Endgame. The primary constraint on a piece's activity is the Pawn structure

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.

In fact, all of us have a piece of Chernobyl in our bodies going back to 1986.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

The greatest determinant of greatness is going to be our ability to collaborate with others who have pieces of the puzzle we don't.

People who have ordered my pieces to be removed should have asked themselves before if they were artworks or vandalism.

It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time.

A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.

There is no such thing as a Difficult Piece. A piece is either impossible - or it is easy. The process whereby it migrates from one category to the other is known as practicing.