Famous quotes containing the words piece of, piece and/or work:
“Never to talk about ourselves is a very noble piece of hypocrisy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)
“A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.”
—Paul Valéry (1871–1945)