Quotes with pieces

  • All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
  • Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.
  • I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
  • 'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.
  • Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
  • Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
  • Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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  • Remy de Gourmont The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Sir Matthew Hale The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
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  • Anthony Trollope A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Alberto Giacometti All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Ben Goldacre Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bradley Chicho Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.
    Bradley Chicho
    English poet
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  • Audre Lorde But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Wallace Stevens Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Denis Waitley Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Martin Luther Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered. And the wider and more numerous the fissures on the surface, the more the unity is strengthened in the depths.
    Civilization in Transition (1964)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Ben Stein Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe - gravity, thermodynamics, motion, fluid motion - how any of those originated. It's...it's got some gigantic missing pieces.
    Ben Stein on CNN: Impolite Conversation. Ben Stein on CNN: Impolite Conversation
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • John Donne God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Art Spiegelman I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.
    Art Spiegelman
    American cartoonist and editor (1948 - )
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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