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“Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did. I don't think anyone has stones that big.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Bigs Names Powerful Magic Stones Bigger Saint Circles Santa

Book:Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files

Source: Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files

“A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more vulnerable to vanity. I was 36 when I wrote The Shadow of the Wind and the success of it was very gradual. If you have this kind of success straight off, I think there is a danger you can become an idiot, because you don't have a perspective. It hasn't changed me a lot. I fly first class now. But those things don't change you. If I am pretentious, I was before, I haven't changed. The only thing is, I am less anxious now.”

“They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!”

People Thinking Knows Book Bigs Written Crazy Crazy People Big Book

Author:William Glasser

“And yet my life seemed to be just one big mass of people. I would never ask some people in for tea to fill up time. I just never would do it. Whenever I seemed to have a quiet hole, I would paint. That was what I would choose to do to fill up the time.”

People Bigs Asks Solitude Quiet Mass Paint Holes Tea Just One

Author:Myfanwy Pavelic

“And I been waitin' all my life And I been havin' big dreams times twice”

Dream Bigs

Author:Eamon

“Just playing more, I'm more comfortable. A big part is the boys are giving me a lead a lot of nights. Playing more has just let me be more comfortable in different situations in the game.”

Giving Different Bigs Night Games Situation Boys Comfort Comfortable Let Me

Author:Ray Emery

“The Cisco announcement that their revenue might slow due to shortage of parts meant, therefore, Nortel was down because it's competing in the same market. I think that was the big negative.”

Thinking Bigs Might Negative Dues Competing Revenue Parting Shortage Announcements Cisco

Author:Kate Warne

“Our target market is recreational bettors, but that doesn't mean we expel the wise guys. A big bet for us is maybe $10,000.”

Mean Bigs Guy Wise Target Recreation Target Market Wise Guy

Author:Calvin Ayre

“The Suns, meanwhile, appeared to be hoisting a white flag over the Arizona desert. With a 12-22 record at the time, they were clearing out big contracts for salary-cap relief and a chance to start over again the following summer. We are taking a step backward in the immediate run, .. But we're certainly looking forward to the future.”

“I grew up in a small town where you know everyone, .. I've been told all my life that I come from too small a town to compete with some of the guys that competed in a higher level growing up. And that kind of drove me through college and drove me in the minor leagues, because I got to face all those big 5- A [school district] guys in the minors.”

Knows Kind Bigs School Faces Guy Levels Growing Up Growing College Grew Higher Grew Up Towns League Minors Small Town Higher Level School Districts

Author:Roy Oswalt

“The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.”

Real Sometimes Bigs Beautiful Emotion Sweet Kings Ugly Riot Refined Percussion King Kong

Author:Evelyn Glennie

“I'd like to see a quiet album and go back to being sparse again, because this album is such a big album, ... I'd like to go back to being as sparse as we possibly can.”

Bigs Quiet Albums

Author:Margo Timmins

“I'm sorry for losing my temper following the race, but after a day or two of looking back at the race it's easy to realize that it's just not that big of a deal compared with what the people of the Gulf Coast are still going through.”

People Stills Two Bigs Easy Realizing Deals Race Losing Sorry Following Temper Looking Back I'm Sorry Coast Temperance

Author:Robby Gordon

“No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you and you're allowing it to pass through.”

Thinking World Long Art Ideas Moments Bigs Light Earth Spirit Artist Given Dark Opposites Innocence That Moment Allowing Within You Shaking Light And Dark Saying Yes Yes And No

Author:Milton Resnick

“The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.”

Art Bigs Speak Powerful Emotion Audience Messages Concern Universal Life And Death Big Questions Unrelenting Powerful Emotions

Author:Scott Kahn

“As I was walking down the stairs, I kept thinking that the room felt like a movie theater with all your attention on this wall, so it seemed like a big challenge.”

Thinking Bigs Felt Challenges Rooms Attention Wall Walking Theater Stairs Exhibitions Movie Theater Big Challenges

Author:Wade Guyton

“Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.”

Knows Needs Looks Book Bigs Space Imagine Wall Pages Empty Mirrors Boxes Over You Thick Elegant

Author:Carter Ratcliff

“In a very small way, painting addresses the 'Big Questions' to which we'll never find the answers. You do what you have to do even if it seems hopeless.”

Ifs Way Bigs Seems Answers Painting Addresses Hopeless Big Questions

Author:Sam Messer

“The art of British Columbia's native Indians played a big role in inspiring my creativity... the simplicity of the images, the graciousness of the lines and curves, and the emotional impact of the bright simple primary colours.”

Art Bigs Lines Simple Roles Creativity Influence Emotional Impact Simplicity British Primaries Colour Native Curves Columbia Graciousness British Columbia

Author:Joe Average

“Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.”

Way Dream Bigs Sky Chickens Montana Roosters

Book:Hattie Ever After

Source: Hattie Ever After

“If I ruled supreme, there would be big problems.”

Ifs Problem Bigs Would Be Supreme Big Problems

Author:Kirby Larson

“I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny; mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.”

People Want Made Play Bigs Wanted Imagination Mines Walking Tiny Bridges Shakes Tape Council Belgrade

Author:Marina Abramovic

“I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.”

Long Made Book Bigs Mother Huge Pages Died Photograph Naked Burned Cleaning Edited Cupboards Mother Died Big Book

Author:Marina Abramovic

“A few of my books, over the years, have been optioned for film. The subject matter of my books, however, is not exactly conducive to Hollywood film treatment. If and when a 'big-budget' film is ever made based on one of my books, my fans and I will more than likely loathe it because it won't be true to its source. That's almost a given.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Made Book Matter Bigs Film Given Fans Subjects Source Hollywood Being True Budgets Treatment Subject Matter Loathe Ifs And Hollywood Films

Author:Richard Laymon

“You know what made us the biggest, meanest, Big Mac eating, calorie-counting, world-dominating kick-ass powerhouse country in the history of the human race? The pursuit of happiness. Not happiness. The pursuit.”

Knows World Humans Made Country Bigs America Happiness Race Eating Pursuit Ass Human Race Kicks Pursuit Of Happiness Counting Macs Calories Dominating Kick Ass Big Mac

Book:Happiness

Source: Happiness

“El Bulli was created by 2,000 people that passed through it. And we didn't know that something big was happening. It was like a game in a way. You didn't really know how it was going to end up, and people who would leave, they would take a piece of it with them, but they would leave another piece behind.”

People Knows Way Ends Bigs Games Behinds Know How Pieces Happenings

Author:Ferran Adria

“Salt is the only product that changes cuisine. There's a big difference between food that has salt and food without it. If you don't believe that, ask people who can't eat salt.”

People Ifs Believe Bigs Asks Differences Products Don't Believe Salt Cuisine

Author:Ferran Adria

“When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do winners become winners?”

Thinking World Kind Doe Book Ends Reason Stories Bigs Care Guy Turns Girl Reading Given Novel Data Winner Plot Adultery

Author:Elif Batuman

“Nature is a big influence on my work. That's where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.”

Bigs Influence Awareness Elements Species Cosmic Relevance Implications

Author:Tim Lebbon

“When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet... When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world.”

Thinking World Want Looks Bigs Dies Building Goes On Rain Diets Maps Wet Small Things Leather Gloves Wanting To Die I Want To Die

Author:Kobo Abe

“A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.”

World Bigs Seems Wind

Book:The Years of Rice and Salt

Source: The Years of Rice and Salt

“Palmer was the big gun as far as getting the tour to where it is today. He was the most charismatic player ever. He did everything the public wanted him to do.”

Bigs Today Wanted Player Gun Charismatic

Author:Gene Littler

“We are sitting on our honeymoon bed in the honeymoon suite. We are in a state of honeymoon, in our honey month. These words are so sweet: honey, moon. This bed is so big, we could live on it. We have been happily marooned -- honey marooned -- on this bed for days.”

Has Beens States Bigs Sweet Months Bed Moon Sitting Honey Honeymoon Sweet Honey

Book:Stranger Things Happen

Source: Stranger Things Happen

“You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that turn out to have serious consequences. It's very hard make a story out of people doing the right thing over and over again.”

People Hard Stories Bigs Turns Energy Interest Mistake Serious Consequence Narrative Right Thing Doing The Right Thing Big Mistake

Author:Kelly Link

“Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.”

World Life Real Sometimes Bigs Action Chaos Real Life Portions Ambiguous Big Picture

Book:The Policy

Source: The Policy

“There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though - ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature - and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away. Hell, look at the Bible: gods, devils, ghosts, witches, giants, resurrections. That’s one big horror story. And it’s the most popular book on the planet.”

“You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.”

People Bigs Order Boys Streets Ought Safe Achievement Medical Dictatorship Polite Transport Punctual

Book:The New Watch: (Night Watch 5)

Source: The New Watch: (Night Watch 5)

“New York is like a big dinner party. You have to be very careful about what you say and do because you never know whose feet are touching under the table.”

Knows Bigs Party Feet New York Tables Careful Dinner Touching Dinner Party

Author:Susanna Moore

“The knowledge that unites love and wisdom, that uplifts the spirit is spirituality. The knowledge which gives you a broad vision and a big heart is spirituality.”

Giving Heart Bigs Spirit Spirituality Vision Uplifting Broads Spiritual Leader Big Heart Love And Wisdom

Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Even God had a Welsh name : He spoke to him in the old language; He was to have a peculiar care For the Welsh people. History showed us He was too big to be nailed to the wall Of a stone chapel, yet still we crammed him Between the boards of a black book .”

People Stills Book Bigs Care Names Language Black Wall Stones Boards Spokes Peculiar Welsh Chapel Black Books

Author:R. S. Thomas

“There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.”

Bigs Rate Arguing Destructive Logical Inflation Hyperinflation

Book:Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Source: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

“Global collaboration is something that Wiki mastered in a small way and here we can master it in a big way.”

Way Bigs Masters Collaboration

Author:Ward Cunningham

“The secret of Big Macs is that they're not very good, but every one is not very good in exactly the same way.”

Way Bigs Secret Very Good Macs Big Mac

Author:Joel Spolsky

“The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds.”

World Bigs Three Brain Pounds

Author:R. Scott Bakker

“The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website.”

Bigs Gone Internet Research Library Available Access Articles Academic Journal Website Digging Boon Academic Research

Author:Nick Bostrom

“There is a big difference you see between privately letting someone know that you're displeased, whether they've done something they may not be aware of, and just rudeness - and you do not have to tolerate rudeness, by any means.”

Knows May Mean Done Bigs Differences Tolerate Rudeness

Author:Ysabella Brave

“In many ways, Big Brother is the present day equivalent of a 1980s Club 18-30 Holiday - flirting, sunbathing, silly little organised games, and lots of people you'd like to remove from the genepool with a cricket bat.”

People Way Littles Bigs Games Brother Clubs Silly Holiday Remove Bats Cricket Flirting Present Day Organised Silly Little Sunbathing

Book:Dawn of the Dumb

Source: Dawn of the Dumb

“The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the event, and delegate that. I had been harboring some suspicions that our big codebases might benefit from the application of some more of the various “modern” C++ design patterns, despite seeing other large game codebases suffer under them. I have since recanted that suspicion.”

“The big belly can accommodate all kinds of things. The benevolence is never let a dust behind.”

Kind Bigs Behinds All Kinds Dust Openness Belly Benevolence Accommodate

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I think both sides [China and United States] should work hard to build a new type of relationship between big powers. The two sides should cooperate with each other for a win-win result in order to benefit people from the two countries and the world.”

People Thinking World Should Two Country Hard States Bigs Order Winning Sides United Results United States Hard Work Type Benefits China Both Sides Two Sides Win Win Two Countries

Author:Xi Jinping

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