Pieces Quotes

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I'm really just going a couple bars at a time.

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.

There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation.

It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole.

So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.

In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.

You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go.

Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.

I've always developed all my own pieces, and they're time-consumers.

Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.

Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.

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.

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.

I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.

She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.