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“[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that's much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.”

Needs Real Enough Bigs Rooms Lays Dear Agents Hats Apartment Estates Few Friends Estate Agents

Author:Dorothy Parker

“To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a 'we.' America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us.”

Persons Bigs America Community Pleasure Groups Identity Meaningful Tribes Bland Group Identity

Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later.”

Firsts Bigs Loses Loss Issues Sick Illness

Book:How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick

Source: How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick

“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

“I am a big believer in early intervention.”

Bigs Believer Intervention

Author:Temple Grandin

“I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours to cast a ballot knowing what we ought to remember: that it makes a difference. Not always a big difference. Not always an immediate difference. But a difference.”

People Bigs Remember Fighting Hours Differences Knowing Democracy Generations Ought Vote Casts Making A Difference Ballots

Author:Ellen Goodman

“A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.”

Bigs Kids Paper Program Paint Boxes Mediums Sheets Expressive Crayon

Author:Clifford Stoll

“I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for a community that our real neighborhoods don't deliver. At least a few must wonder what the big deal is.”

People Feels Important Real Use Bigs Community Deals Wonder Internet Demand Hungry Neighborhood Big Deal Insatiable

Author:Clifford Stoll

“I was approached by friends who encouraged me to run for an open seat - attorney general of Michigan. It was a big risk.”

Bigs Running Risk Seats Attorney Michigan

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.”

Bigs Smart Intelligence

Book:In Her Day

Source: In Her Day

“If I could get their attention long enough, I felt they would see beneath the boobs and find the heart, and that they would see beneath the wig and find the brains. I think one big part of whatever appeal I possess is the fact that I look totally one way and that I am totally another. I look artificial, but I'm not.”

Ifs Thinking Way Looks Heart Long Enough Facts Bigs Felt Attention Brain Authenticity One Way Appeals If I Could Artificial Wigs

Author:Dolly Parton

“Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. Its far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, its not a big stretch from hymns.”

People Way Bigs Together Spiritual Listening Music Is Uplifting Listening To Music Hymns Dance Music

Author:Kaskade

“We plant a tree that won't be big enough to climb until we're too old to climb trees, we write constitutions to protect the rights of people who won't be born for another hundred years and may not be worth the trouble anyway, and we try to take care of our sick, though we all suffer from a disease for which there is no cure and no hope for one. We will not last and we know we will not - and still we write, carve, build, paint and plant to last. We are, it seems to me, very, very brave.”

“I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.”

Years Bigs America Church Stage Singing Wounds Teenage Teenage Years Singing In Church

Author:Amy Grant

“Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel big or tiny? Because there's something good about feeling both.”

Feels Doe Feelings Bigs Watches Tiny Sunset Sunrise Sunrise And Sunset

Author:Amy Grant

“Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?”

Knows Mean Long Doe Two Bigs Differences Advertising Giants Extras Tall Inches

Book:But Will it Sell?

Source: But Will it Sell?

“To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.”

Real Bigs Audience Thrill Beyond My Control

Author:Amy Grant

“Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.”

Bigs Young Sides Nice Fronts Hollywood Grandmother Swings My Grandmother Attics Backsides Starlets

Author:Bette Davis

“The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.”

Real Bigs Existence Cutting Air Dying Arms Hollywood Fishes Bites Elsewhere Slippery Big Fish Hollywood Life

Author:Mae West

“Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.”

Littles Ideas Bigs Big Ideas

Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought I'll make them big, like the huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they'll have to look at them - and they did.”

People Looks Bigs Artist Building Flower Huge Paint I Realized

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the big breeches an' the little man takes the small ones, an' it's jest the same with religion. It may be cut after one pattern, but it's might apt to get its shape from the wearer inside. Why, thar ain't any text so peaceable that it ain't drawn blood from somebody.”

Men May Littles Bigs Might Cutting Blood Fit Shapes Patterns Every Man Pairs Jest Little Man

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with a ruthlessness that many big businesses would never think of displaying.”

Thinking Bigs Sports Baseball Institutions Sacred Selfish Dedicated Big Business Public Good Ruthlessness

Author:Jackie Robinson

“It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.”

People Years Looks Ends Bigs Middle Essentials Tradition Winter Christmas Depressing Bangs Slap

Author:Richard E. Grant

“When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time.”

Way Bigs Happiness Love Is Big Things Vitality Motor

Author:Fanny Brice

“Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.”

Ifs Mind Bigs Causes Trouble Calm Wave

Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.”

Men Bigs Greed Meals Refugee Accused Avarice Gluttony

Book:The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks

Source: The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks

“There's a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant.”

Bigs Differences Managers Tyrants

Author:Mary Kay Ash

“Everyone in America (according to my generalizations) is a potential millionaire waiting for his or her big break. I was astonished lately to realize that Americans are definitely believing in and planning for the future, despite the fact that they elected Ronald Reagan twice.”

Believe Facts Bigs America Waiting Realizing Break Planning Despite Millionaire Future Plans Generalization

Book:Roseanne: my life as a woman

Source: Roseanne: my life as a woman

“Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension over who would control the remote.”

Bigs Courses Sex Deals Issues Tension Straightforward Primates Compatibility Foraging

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.”

Littles Bigs Space Please Fancy Comparison Contrast Time And Space

Book:Peter Ibbetson

Source: Peter Ibbetson

“My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.”

Writing Firsts Bigs Age Mother Given Five Sensible Suggestions My Thoughts Notebook Whining Tablets Stop Whining

Book:We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction

Source: We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction

“Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.”

Believe Children Bigs Able Faces Bits Sleep Childhood Dog Stones Wake Up Longing Glasses Nostalgia Treasure Sugar Dread Shells Going To Sleep Fear Not Morrow Fear Nothing Maple

Book:Ginger-Snaps

Source: Ginger-Snaps

“the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.”

Ifs Needs Ends Bigs Together Black Growing Huge Goes On Summer Gun Protection Enormous Pairs Gardening Exaggeration Dusk Crocodiles Slugs End Of Summer

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.”

“Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.”

Feels Years Humans Stills Bigs Human Beings Cutting Years Ago Complicated Billions Bangs

Author:Alan Watts

“The big play comes with the pass.”

Play Bigs Nfl

Author:Sid Gillman

“My dad hasn't said much about his college days. Oh, a few times, he might start telling stories. And I've seen some highlight film of him from college. I remember thinking he looked really small. Which is funny, because growing up, I thought he was a pretty big guy.”

Thinking Said Stories Bigs Might Remember Film Guy Growing Up Growing College Dad My Dad Nfl Highlights Telling Stories Big Guys College Days

Author:Andrew Luck

“I want to win four or five championship rings. That's how I dream. I dream big.”

Want Dream Bigs Winning Five Four Rings Nfl Championship Championship Rings

Author:Adrian Peterson

“With my dad passing away, he's always watching me-a big smile on his face, watching every snap on the 50-yard line.”

Bigs Faces Lines Dad My Dad Passing Passings Nfl Yards Snaps Passing Away

Author:Russell Wilson

“Volunteer. Sometimes the jobs no one wants conceal big opportunities.”

Want Sometimes Bigs Jobs Opportunity Volunteer

Book:Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life

Source: Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life

“There were a lot of big games. But I think one of the biggest was one that will go down as one of the biggest upsets in playoff history. We were 15-point underdogs going into Miami and upset them. That was a big one.”

Thinking Bigs Games Upset Nfl Miami Underdog Playoffs

Author:Chuck Knox

“It's hard coming in here talking a big game. It's hard, it's hard. It's a lamb coming to the wolves and throwing meat at them.”

Hard Bigs Games Talking Meat Nfl Throwing Lambs

Author:Richard Sherman

“These Seattle Seahawks wide receivers have been called pedestrian, they've been called no-namers, but they always come up with the big play.”

Has Beens Play Bigs Come Up Wide Nfl Super Bowl Seattle Receiver Pedestrians Wide Receiver

Author:Nate Burleson

“There are so many things that can provide us with peace. Next time you take a shower or a bath, I suggest you hold your big toes in mindfulness. We pay attention to everything except our toes. When we hold our toes in mindfulness and smile at them, we will find that our bodies have been very kind to us. We know that any cell in our toes can turn cancerous, but our toes have been behaving very well, avoiding that kind of problem. Yet, we have not been nice to them at all. These kinds of practices can bring us happiness.”

Knows Wells Kind Has Beens Problem Body Bigs Turns Next Pay Attention Practice Nice Awareness Mindfulness Cells Pay Attention Showers Next Time Toes Avoiding Baths

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I think a lot about Big Mind-Small Mind, expansive, wide-lens consciousness and contracted, introverted consciousness. I have moments-we all do-when just being alive is a pleasure and a miracle. They feel like moments when the shutters of the mind are open so I can look out. It also feels as if those same shutters have no hooks to fix them in an open position. One small wind and bang-they slam shut.”

Source: Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness

“Of course, Jastrow's comment is exaggerated at best; theologians hardly predicted the Big Bang. If our universe turns out to be closed, hence with an end, this does not mean apocalyptic visions of the end of the world were on target. And even if a beginning for the universe is a successful prediction of one version of theism, this is still not that impressive. After all, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. The Big Bang becomes strong support for God only with an argument showing that such a beginning requires a Creator.”

Matter Bigs Religion Imagination Space Events Empty One Time Bangs Explosions Empty Space Spacetime

Book:The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science

Source: The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science

“Under all of the factors that make up the art world, it's up to the individual artist to discern which of those influences are present and at what time and what really serves the deeper process that is constantly running like a stream underground. Influence is incessant. Influence is a fact. But, carry a big shovel and dig constantly to clear away all the unessentials so that the origins of mystery and the poetic force of life can get into and inspire the work.”

World Art Facts Bigs Running Artist Individual Force Process Clear Mystery Influence Inspire Photographer Deeper Factors Streams Poetic Art World Incessant Shovels

Author:Paul Caponigro

“I think it's important to recognize that you can't have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy and zero inconvenience.... In the abstract you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential program run amok, but when you actually look at the details then I think we've struck the right balance.”

Thinking Looks Important Bigs Running Security Brother Balance Program Details Complaining Abstract Privacy Zero Cents Nsa Inconvenience

Author:Barack Obama

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