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Quotes About Parts

This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story.
~ Karl Pilkington
Formed a decade earlier by a Whirlwind engineer, Digital was a rising star among minicomputer suppliers, who broke sharply with tradition. In the past, computer designers had promoted large mainframes that shared their power between many jobs. Minicomputers, often priced well below a hundred thousand dollars, made it practical for the first time to dedicate a computer to a single job, such as keeping track of parts, the data for an experiment or the operation of a machine tool. Though
~ G. Pascal Zachary
But the best parts of him were in his books. I suppose I could always read those if I missed him too much. I haven't wanted to read one yet, though.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The idea of Solution was that if you asked questions and didn't keep mindlessly building widgets, your score would be lower, but you would find out you were working in a factory that supplied machine parts to the Third Reich. Once you had this information, you could potentially slow your output. You could make the bare number of parts required not to be detected by the Reich, or you could stop producing parts entirely.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.
~ Gail Simmons
Gallia est omnis divisa in partres tres. (All Gaul is divided into three parts)
~ Gaius Julius Caesar
Our sense of a composition largely inheres in how we feel about the individual parts; narrative arcs are almost always essential in drama but (unless there are lyrics involved) often less essential in music. All of this is, I suspect, again symptomatic of human memory limitations. We live, to a remarkable degree, in the present; what happened thirty seconds ago is already rapidly fading from our memory (or at least rapidly becomes harder for us to retrieve).
~ Gary Marcus
Sometimes I come up here at night, even when I'm not fixing the clocks, just to look at the city. I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is one big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.
~ Brian Selznick
i like to imagine that the world is one big machine. you know machines never have any extra parts. they have exact number and type they need. so i figure if the world is a big machine, i have to be here for some reason. and that means you have to be here for some reason, too.
~ Brian Selznick
Sometimes I come up here at night...just to look at the city. I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.
~ Brian Selznick
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
~ burke edmund iii
As a young actor, I played a lot of 'exotic' parts and was stuck with the tag 'sultry.' I had to refuse such parts if I were ever to play anything else. It did the trick, but my agent feared it made me harder to cast.
~ Diana Quick
The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved.
~ Charles Jencks
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
~ Edmund Burke
I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.
~ Carl Lewis
George [Lucas] wanted to know whether we'd be interested. He did say that if we didn't want to do it, they wouldn't cast another actor in our parts - they would write us out.
~ Mark Hamill
We really should get some X-rays," the EMT said. "You just want to fondle my extraneous body parts," I said to the EMT.
~ Darynda Jones
a big, messy linear problem can always be broken into smaller, more manageable parts. Then each part can be solved separately, and all the little answers can be recombined to solve the bigger problem. So it's literally true that in a linear problem, the whole is exactly equal to the sum of the parts.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
The parts of fiction are the various steps that the author takes to develop his plot—the details of characterization and incident.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
occurred to me that their very presence was testimony to the moral emptiness of the universe and the mechanical brutality with which it destroys the parts it no longer needs.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I love meeting fans, and I love bringing my drag to all parts of the world.
~ Aquaria
In the Green Machine there is no mercy; we make mercy, manufacture it in parts that have overgrown our basic reptile brain. There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.
~ Thomas Harris
those parts of the British Isles without the advantage of coal deposits or ports, industrialization was as handicapped as in other countries.
~ Thomas Sowell
and that braw lad,...is the finest piece of man flesh in these parts.
~ Kathleen Morgan