Look at it this way—before any of this wood became parts of the shelves or the desk or the chair, all of it was in pieces—just pieces of wood. But the wood was full of potential. It could be shaped into anything that a carpenter wanted it to be s...
The best way to eat the elephant standing in your path is to cut it up into little pieces.
When you chop off a snake's head all you are left with is a piece of rope.
An adder with its poisonous fangs taken out is nothing more than a piece of rope.
I got a new car. I just need to put it together. They’re easier to steal piece by piece.
Our sisters and brothers were picked up in public by local commanders for the purpose of sex and luxury and we could do nothing.
They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.
Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.
Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.
The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle even before you see how it fits.
After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.
War doesn’t start with an explosion….It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil.
Someone gave me a piece of advice once, my first manager Lucien Hold. He said, 'If you do stand-up about your own life, no one can steal it.' I always thought that was the best piece of advice.
So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.
If you look at any 15 pieces of mine, nobody does a piece like them. Totally new techniques. All the jugglers are stealing from me and claiming that they've done it.
Inventions are rarely just a sudden bright idea. Even if they are, they usually have antecedents in the form of pieces of the idea... Piecing these things together gives one a sense of where inventions come from, and that's interesting.
When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic." [As quoted on , 6 March 2012]
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
I'll probably stick to comedy for the time being. I mean, a great piece of work is a great piece of work, and I'm up for good work anytime. But I do love comedy!
When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.
I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.
