Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.
Vincente Fox

Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.
David Tudor

Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.
Siobhan Fahey

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.
Emanuel Ax

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
Harrison Birtwistle

My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
Dave Barry

Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.
Peter Mayhew

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Jules Renard

On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
Buffalo Bill

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.
Philip Pullman

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth Galbraith

One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic.
Fred Frith

One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.
Richard Leakey

Our clothes are going to pieces fast. Send provisions as soon as possible.
William John Wills

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.
Bill Condon

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.
Joshua Leonard

Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
Madeleine Stowe

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
King Edward VIII

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.
Sean Lennon

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf