Pieces Quotes - Page 66

Strength is the ability to break up a solid piece of chocolate—and then eat just one of the pieces.

Get involved and learn how to recognise a story happening in front of you. Learn how to ask questions and be curious. That's probably my biggest piece of advice.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

The concept of having staple pieces with clean, basic lines, and adding accessories to funk it all up is one that applies to both fashion and decorating. There are so many parallels.

I became interested in building furniture, because I couldn't find pieces I really loved for myself and my clients. I picked stuff up from the street, and tweaked those pieces to make them what I really wanted. It became a career!

Everything you do is so personal. In the end, it doesn't matter so much if you write about your own life or not. It's going to be as much artifice when it comes out as a piece of music. Everything is in character in a way. But that's a great thing.

The last few weeks, it was as if someone had taken his life to pieces and let him see the way it worked.

The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after them Gordon was a piece of cake.

I did buy a new piece of furniture so it's like, "Oh, that's something new." But generally my goals are made in the fall.

William Howard Taft, who he embarrassed in these congressional hearings, attacks him as an emotionalist and a socialist and a cosmopolitan in terms that kind of have an anti-Semitic overtone. And even the pro-Brandeis press supported him in terms that really seem creepy today. There's this piece from Life magazine. It says, "Mr. Brandeis is a Jew. And until now there's never been a Jew on the Supreme Court. Perhaps it's time we have one."

A rare piece of magic, don't let it FLY by you

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

Turn the paper. A piece looks better if every mark is not made while the surface is in the same orientation.

Lately, I just let myself eat it more because I think, 'Oh, my God, a piece of cheese tastes so good'. I think it's your body telling you something.

Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

I realized the importance of archiving. So I save key pieces from my collections, as well as any red-carpet things that become iconic. I always ask for that stuff back. I'm like, "It's going in my archives."

I don't like literal spaces, I don't like literal anything. I still like some kind of guess work but some pieces work and they just pop.

Aquamarines grew with emeralds, Claire told me. But emeralds were fragile and always broke into smaller pieces, while aquamarines were stronger, grew in huge crystals without any trouble, so they weren't worth as much. It was the emerald that didn't break that was the really valuable thing.

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.

I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.

I never had a piece of toast particularly long and wide, But fell upon the sanded floor, And always on the buttered side.

Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just me and the book. It was great.