Pieces Quotes - Page 53

It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again.

So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.

And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.

So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.

I tried to hold myself apart, showing only what I wanted, doling out bits and pieces of who I was. But that only works out for so long. Eventually, even the smallest fragments can't help but, make a whole.

We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.

I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record.

I understand that you can never have the whole picture; inevitably, there’s stuff you don’t know, can’t know. But when it comes to Cameron I always want more than I have, would like to be able to take hold of at least one or two more pieces, if only because I’m convinced there are parts of myself inside them.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.

The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

Imagine if you have a million views on a show and they say it's a hit on some cable networks. I could put out a piece of content that has 20 million views.

Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.

I think that for the position that I'm in the strongest thing that I can do is produce pieces that are exactly the thing that I want them to be.

Any type of commercialization or, like I said, watering that idea down would be so damaging and frankly, be pretty uninspiring to me, because the fact that every piece is like my dream thing that I just can't get enough of and am just so excited to wear, is just the whole point of it.

A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.

I find it a lot more concerning to me that Hillary Clinton was extremely careless in the handling of national security information, not just one or two, but thousands and thousands of pieces of national security information.

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

You know how some people say that they can only read one story a day from this or that collection? If that's simply the result of the great tension and power condensed into each piece, all well and good.

When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.

I guess Requiem for a Heavyweight as old as it is was as honest a piece as I've ever done.

Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.