Top 1200 Bits And Pieces Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

We can see an anthill or a roach or a flower or anything, but we have this frame where our mind recognizes an anthill and then moves on, without taking the opportunity to have the sense of awe that we could have if we really looked at it. The montage is about taking pieces of reality and rearranging them - creating new frames to make you have to stop and look at things in a fresh way. It's basically taking pieces of everyday reality and rearranging them to show people the magic that is inherent in all of these things already.

Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done.

I love it [a career as an actor] to bits, but it's highly bizarre, especially when you're playing a psychopathic rapist with various diseases.

One time Allie and I skipped school and went to see this foreign film called Los Diablos, where these villagers found a glowing blue ball and peeled pieces off of it to see what was inside. Only the ball was really radioactive, and they all died from the poison. I think that’s what happens when you look too deep inside for the truth. The poison comes out, and you die, even though you have beautiful glowing pieces of blue truth in your fingers.

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.

... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them to do what reason cannot teach us? Ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, whales, elephants, dromedaries, and camels; these, I confess, are the colossuses and majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow engines there is more curious mathematieks; and the civility of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdom of their Maker.

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.

I am fascinated by people's flaws and delusions: all the messy bits of human nature we all try to pretend we don't have.

Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

I love art and finding different bits and bobs for the apartment; so, I'm adding all my personal touches to the house.

When I see myself on screen, I am always looking at the bad bits and finding fault in something or the other.

Bits are fake conversations comedians have because they are uncomfortable being vulnerable with other human beings in any way.

In the world according to Apple, content is just a bunch of digital bits, easily copied, nothing special.

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

But there's the beauty of life beyond the bubble. It's possible for someone to see your wicked bits and still love you.

And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

I'm quite happy to laugh at Argentina's obsession with ham and cheese, but not, you know, delicate bits of their history.

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.

I've two huge German shepherds who are my boys. They're called Biscuit and Buster, and I love them to bits.

I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.

My next thing could be something in hardware. It's never been easier to turn bits into atoms.

The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces. The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces. Candy is dandy But liquor is quicker.

The great thing about the Internet is - our show is totally modular. Every piece can be popped in and out. They're relatively short pieces. They're not long. And we can say, "here' s one way to market it. Take these pieces out of the show and put them on the Internet." And we're doing dirtier cuts and put those on the Internet. It's a real great way to market the show. This is finally the year a show like this can happen.

I would radically redesign early years education to learn from the best bits of the Finnish system.

The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.

I have had an amazingly fortunate life. I'm a child from Yorkshire, which is sort of like Cleveland without the pretty bits.

My two bits here are that writing is a solitary job but there are times when one needs to discuss the work, and see what's working and what's not.

Grasp it all, don't be afraid, enjoy the bits you can and tell your family you love them while you have the chance.

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.

It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.

Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and they have no meaning.

In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second.

I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.

I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm good for.

He looks at me, the light in his eyes fractures into millions of bits—a kaleidoscope of darkness that may never be fixed.

I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from the rain, the smell of food and wine, interesting conversation, daylight falling weakly on the polished cherrywood of the tables. It took so little to move the mood from one level to another, as one might push pieces on a chessboard. Even to be aware of this, in the midst of a happy moment, was to push one of those pieces, and to become slightly less happy.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting.

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen

You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.

Not everybody would choose to be a firefighter or an ambulance driver. Not everyone wants to see the nasty bits of life.

Sitting around with Jim Carrey, coming up with bits, is, like, beyond a dream come true.

She's afraid to tell me anything important, knowing I'll only turn around and write about it. In my mind, I'm like a friendly junkman, building things from the little pieces of scrap I find here and there, but my family's started to see things differently. Their personal lives are the so-called pieces of scrap I so casually pick up, and they're sick of it. More and more often their stories begin with the line "You have to swear you'll never repeat this." I always promise, but it's generally understood that my word means nothing.

Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.

I imagined Kandinsky's mind, spread out all over the world, and then gathered together. Everyone having only a piece of the puzzle. Only in a show like this could you see the complete picture, stack the pieces up, hold them to the light, see how it all fit together. It made me hopeful, like someday my life would make sense too, if I could just hold all the pieces together at the same time.

The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

It was strange to find them here, still alive, with their shared bits of past that suddenly counted for nothing.

We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.