Pieces Quotes - Page 68

It's not about mainstream global domination. I make clothes that I can't find. I made a few pieces and Lupe Fiasco bought a pair of trousers I'd made, and a few other artists picked some up.

There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast from a mold, you get a more sensuous, handmade, individual sense from it.

Everything for us is a system. We don't think about it discretely as just as a piece of hardware, or discretely as an application... or discretely as a platform. We think about it across the whole thing.

Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.

A hexagonal piece of cheese is a lot better than a square piece of cheese.

If we were to normalize relations right now, we would remove one of the biggest pieces of leverage we have to try to influence and change Iranian behavior.

Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work.

I try to be original in every piece of music I do, and of course I probably fail every time.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something.

Probably looking at a piece of paper and all the features of a minivan, the minivan is probably the best car in the world.

I thought Erica Jongs Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that Ive ever read in my life.

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.

Life's all about making choices. You've made the choice to pick up the pieces and keep going, even when you've been devastated over and over again.

Writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.

I think the thing with fame is that everybody claims they all want your best. They all know what's good for you and you end up ragged, empty and tired. I did. I felt so empty. Everybody tried to grab a piece of me and everybody tried to push me into a corner.

I was hospitalized five times in 2011 because of my skiing. Fracturing my left shoulder twice, snapping my anterior cruciate ligament once and smashing my scapula into five pieces.

I'm not human. I'm a piece of machinery. I don't need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead.

If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It’s hard to go back to the original shape.

Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece