I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.

Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.

I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil.

I want to make things of quality. I'm a big believer in handmade, tactile, crafted pieces. I want to keep that tradition alive.

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.

I have always wanted some way that you could make a surface in a computer, like you pick up a piece of clay and make sculpture.

I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.

The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

Telly and films has been my thing, not necessarily by choice, and if the right piece of theatre came along, I would jump at it.

Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

When someone you love dies, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming.

I love the shape of cars. They are very inspiring as modern pieces of machinery. I can't drive, but I do like the look of them.

There's this part of Judaism that I like. Tikun Alum. It said that the world is broken into pieces and everyone has to find it.

Don't buy a bedroom suite, but collect your pieces separately - generally cheaper and always the decorator's way of furnishing.

Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.

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

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see.

Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.

The problem is that, over time, big pieces of business that have to get done without leadership from Washington, don't get done.

I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

My work life makes much less sense now than 20 years ago. It's Humpty-Dumpty-like in a way; I can't put the pieces back together.

The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

Pieces of intelligence, scraps of intelligence...you run down leads and you run down leads, and you hope that sometimes it works.

I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.

You own a piece of me," he murmurs as he holds me afterward. "Good," I tell him. "And just so you know… I'm never giving it back.

I have a tough personality but then have a very soft side to me. I'm kind of a tomboy, but I throw it together with girly pieces.

The second you go back to eating right, you're going to put that weight on. You eat one piece of bread and you are screwed, lady!

Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to it.

I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course.

YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.

I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

I wrote a lot of software to do various kinds of special things, and I loved the idea of composing pieces in an electronic studio.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.

We're all in trouble, and we all need to sort of pick up the pieces and start to exercise more and really be careful with the food.

My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.

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