Famous quotes containing the word pieces:
“I saw
that from his lower lip
if you could call it a lip
grim, wet, and weaponlike,
hung five old pieces of fish-line,”
—Elizabeth Bishop (19111979)
“Bees plunder the flowers here and there, but afterward they make of them honey, which is all theirs; it is no longer thyme or marjoram. Even so with the pieces borrowed from others; one will transform and blend them to make a work that is all ones own, that is, ones judgement. Education, work, and study aim only at forming this.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“Pieces of eight! pieces of eight! pieces of eight!”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (18501894)