Pieces Quotes - Page 71

I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.

A world is a circumscribed portion of sky... it is a piece cut off from the infinite.

A cloak of invisibility? This is a highly sensitive piece of field equipment. What does he think? Some warlock pulled it out of his armpit?

I've always dreamed of doing a period piece, I just never knew what it would be.

In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too.

Puzzle pieces don't always connect do they?

A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind.

I'm big on reworking vintage. Also, buying one great piece that lasts forever - to me, that is total sustainability.

since piety has become the fashion at Court, dramatic authors imagine that their pieces would be more welcome if they added in a little devotion. At first their plan succeeded, but now no one can bear their comedies.

When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus.

I always wanted to do a deal with Russell Simmons, and now I've got my signature on a piece of paper with his.

If there's a criteria that really gets me interested in a work besides any type of personal interaction with the theme, it's if I feel like this is the right piece of work for that director at that moment in their career.

I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.

I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go into specifics about it, I wouldn't be able to. It's merely something that I feel.

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.

The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun.

I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?

A Tom Ford three-piece makes you feel so confident, it's bananas.

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple's rules. If you're even allowed to.

Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause.

You can find truly original pieces of writing, but they're original because you go, "Who would have even have thought of that?," or, "Why would anyone ever want to go see that?"