Pieces Quotes - Page 51

We leave a piece of ourselves and our magic in a person that we fall in love with.

When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a stone, and I thought, 'Oh my God, if he doesn't like it I'm dead.' ... And then finally, after 25 minutes he started to talk back to the screen. I heard him say 'That's right. That's the truth.' .

This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind.

When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.

I love jewellery, but it's something I go through stages with. I have my go-to pieces that I will bring out and wear for weeks at a time.

I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.

The Atman alone is eternal. Hospitals will tumble down. Railroad givers will all die. This earth will be blown to pieces, suns wiped out. The Atman endures for ever.

What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?

Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.

I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.

The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like a liquid that you can manipulate at will. In the old days, when I typed, every piece of typing paper was like cast in concrete.

Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.

Hollywood can buy a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but the great thing is they can never buy word of mouth.

The other week I wrote a piece on a photograph I got at a flea market, and I got about 70 hits. I think a lot of people must be interested in flea markets.

I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.

In not-for-profit theater, you don't worry so much about how the audience is going to react. You want to make them absorb the piece.

I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.

Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.

The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.

The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody says, 'That's crap. I hated that,' you hear it. But it's much, much worse when they're right: when you feel that it is an absolute piece of tosh. I made the film I wanted to make, so you just have to find a way of getting over it.

on that piece of white paper, sam wrote, "write about me sometime." and i typed something back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. i just typed. "i will.

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.

If God exists, He is there, in the small, cast-off pieces, rough and random and no two alike.