#pieces

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#because #busy #dark #dark side #denying

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. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#convince #corpse #hit #knock #more

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#game #hidden #laws #nature #other

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing. ↗

— Jim Bakker

#car #chained #chains #even #i

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

— Jack Bowman

#between #difference #good #mere #performance

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. ↗

— Nick Stahl

#been #brutal #darker #doing #experience

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it. ↗

— John Corigliano

#eighty #gravitate #percent #pieces #somewhere

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#american #anything #because #bread #earth

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

— Cyril Cusack

#films #lovely #pieces #simple #stories

We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#between #connection #early #find #hope