Fragments Quotations

My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context.

Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life.

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.

The first five minutes in Gramacho is really overwhelming because all of your senses are being attacked. Visually, too, because your eyes move and see fragments of things you recognize, but not quite, so it's very artistic. Your eyes are moving, then there's the smell, and the noise is unbearable.

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.

I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation - and store them away for future use.

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

The point is that Robert Hunter is a post-modern poet who takes fragments that he inherited from other sources and melds them into new stories, ... What David Dodd has done is the detective work in tracing where those fragments came from.

What they were trying to do was to invent a new visual language for the 20th century. And what they did was they took the Renaissance window -- one point perspective illusion -- and it's as if they took a piece of glass over this painting and shattered it, creating all these fragments and planes. And then took those planes together and reassembled it.

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

Through allowing, you become what you are; vast, spacious. You become whole. You are not a fragment anymore, which is how the ego perceives itself. Your true nature emerges, which is one with the nature of God.

A journey is a fragment of Hell.

Much of the marble coldness of Hester's impression was to be attributed to the circumstance that her life had turned, in a great measure, from passion and feeling, to thought. Standing alone, as to any dependent on society, and with little Pearl to be guided and protected- alone, and hopeless of retrieving her position, even as she had not scorned to consider it desirable, she cast away the fragments of a broken chain.

Moviemaking is a time machine: narrative spliced into fragments and reassembled into a constant present, the end of a story shot before the beginning, which is shot after the middle.

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

It breaks up into very small fragments so it is quite technically complicated to put it all back together again,

Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time

We clasp the hands of those that go before us, And the hands of those who come after us. We enter the little circle of each other's arms And the larger circle of lovers, Whose hands are joined in a dance, And the larger circle of all creatures, Passing in and out of life, Who move also in a dance, To a music so subtle and vast that no ear hears it Except in fragments

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of the finite creatures.

Time advances: facts accumulate; doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine more and more unto the perfect day. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. They are bright, while the level below is still in darkness. But soon the light, which at first illuminated only the loftiest eminences, descends on the plain, and penetrates to the deepest valley. First come hints, then fragments of systems, then defective systems, then complete and harmonious systems. The sound opinion, held for a time by one bold speculator, becomes the opinion of a small minority, of a strong minority, of a majority of mankind. Thus, the great progress goes on.

True fragments of history have re-emerged intact from the oblivion of time and the Earth.

Live in fragments no longer. Only connect...

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer

the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy

Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.

There could still be a huge battle which leaves a big mess and fragments the Web into two pieces whenever a new feature comes along.

We certainly recognize that there does need to be an established tolerance for bone fragments that do not pose a food safety concern.

Very strong, ball control, very good defensive team. When you play against Iowa, with the talent they have and the coaching staff they have, it's a big concern. Most teams have fragments that are good; they seem to have the whole package." ()

There have been other works found, fragments of works found, but this is just superb in its quality. From beginning to end there's not a weak moment.

And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.

Sometimes, when the fragments break off, they flare up temporarily, but it usually doesn't last very long.

It's a shotgun approach. You put the microbes through a blender, and then sequence the fragments of DNA that are floating around. Then you use a lot of computing power to reconstruct the genomes of this collection of organisms.

It's a shotgun approach. You put the microbes through a blender and sequence the fragments of DNA that are floating around. Then you use a lot of computing power to reconstruct the genomes of this collection of organisms.

It looks as though some of the fragments are themselves forming their own sub-fragments.

The best thing about these places is that large -- as in macroscopic -- buried fossilized material is usually weathering out of the outcrops. One can see them laying about and follow the fragments to the source. For microscopic fossils, of course, no clear obvious clues are usually present. The exception is large scale microbial mats like those that made stromatolites and algal travertiles and tufa.

…we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.

A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time.

Movies are a world of Fragments.

I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments.

I am a writer of fragments.

I allow myself to be understood as a colorful fragment in a drab world.

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

the ice was not only broken; it was shivered into a million fragments

There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

New things had to be made out of fragments.

A lost trail always extends beyond the evidence, and even the trails we find are only fragments of the trails that lie beyond our comprehension.

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.

The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.

We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.