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“Theres a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. Its very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but its there to be seen.”

Littles Self Might Certain Bits Industry Little Bit Research Logic Prize Evident Straightforward

Author:Michael Nesmith

“There's a country spread out in the sky, a credulous carpet of rainbows and crepuscular plants: I move toward it just a bit haggardly, trampling a gravedigger's rubble still moist from the spade to dream in a bedlam of vegetables.”

Stills Country Dream Moving Bits Sky Plant Spread Vegetables Rainbow Carpet Spades Rubble Gravediggers

Book:Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)

Source: Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)

“A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity repulsive. It represents a bit of human nature a good bit, of course, but a bit only in disproportionate, unnatural and revolting prominence.”

Humans Courses Bits Religious Moral Human Nature Intellectual Artistic Unnatural Prominence

Book:Edward Gibbon (1856) Bishop Butler (1854) Sterne and Thackeray (1864) The Waverley novels (1858) Charles Dickens (1858) Thomas Babington Macaulay (1856) Béranger (1857) Mr. Clough's poems (1862) Henry Crabb Robinson (1869) Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browni

Source: Edward Gibbon (1856) Bishop Butler (1854) Sterne and Thackeray (1864) The Waverley novels (1858) Charles Dickens (1858) Thomas Babington Macaulay (1856) Béranger (1857) Mr. Clough's poems (1862) Henry Crabb Robinson (1869) Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browni

“When I was a kid, we watched the Vietnam War on the six o'clock news, and it was desensitizing. You felt you were watching a war film; meanwhile you were really watching these guys getting blown to bits. Parents need to protect their kids from watching that stuff.”

Needs War Kids Film Guy Felt Stuff Bits Parent Protect Six News Clock Vietnam Vietnam War

Author:Johnny Depp

“For the last year and a half, I went from being a crazy workout girl to sort of saying, "My body wants a little bit a of break." So I kind of stay with more simple stuff and taking walks and not being neurotic about working out and eating right. I started to enjoy life a little bit more. The only downside to that is there's that couple extra pounds and about 4,000 pregnancy rumors, but you know, other than that, it feels great.”

“Animal crackers in my soup Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop Gosh oh gee but I have fun Swallowing animals one by one In every bowl of soup I see Lions and Tigers watching me I make 'em jump right through a hoop Those animal crackers in my soup When I get hold of the big bad wolf I just push him under to drown Then I bite him in a million bits And I gobble him right down When their inside me where it's dark I walk around like Noah's ark I stuff my tummy like a goop With animal crackers in my soup.”

Bigs Fun Stuff Bits Dark Walks Animal Millions Having Fun Ems Lions Bites Bowls Monkeys Soup Tigers Rabbits Loops Ark Swallowing Crackers Noah's Ark Animal Crackers

Author:Shirley Temple

“The result of cutting [political power] up into little bits is simply that the man who can sweep the greatest number into one heap will govern the rest... In a pure democracy the ruling men will be the wirepullers and their friends; but they will no more be on an equality with the voters than soldiers of Ministers of State are on an equality with the subjects of monarchy.”

Men Littles States Political Bits Results Numbers Democracy Cutting Subjects He Man Pure Little Bit Soldier Ministers Voters Ruling Monarchy Political Power

Book:Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Source: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

“I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation.”

Facts Reality Political Bits Situation Significant Dialogue Observation Buried Trifles Overlooked

Book:The Best of I.F. Stone

Source: The Best of I.F. Stone

“I think it's a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit.”

Thinking Ideas Would Be Bits Ties Cheer Good Ideas Peter Vans Inhuman Barbaric

Author:Jeremy Clarkson

“The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.”

Bits Brain Nice Ignorance Nice Things

Author:Douglas Hofstadter

“The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them. I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.”

Thinking World Different Sometimes Certain Bits Dark Interesting Views Path Hero Forests Right Thing Shore Villain Heroism Most Interesting Right Place Villainy

Author:James Spader

“I bit down three nails rooting for the Heat.”

Three Bits Heat Nails

Author:Gloria Estefan

“[My first children's book] is very subliminal, let's put it that way. It even has a bit of a metaphysical little message in there [about how] we're all somehow connected and we all have a responsibility toward each other. Although you may feel alone in the world, you definitely are not.”

World Way Feels Firsts May Children Littles Book Bits Responsibility Messages Connected Metaphysical Children's Books Subliminal

Author:Gloria Estefan

“Keep your head down, avoid all the distractions of being a writer todayall the shifts in the business, all the drama, all the debating about where publishing is goingand write the best story that you can. It sounds a bit glib, but I think this is advice a lot of people are having trouble following right now. It is so hard to focus. But that is the single key to success.”

People Thinking Writing Hard Stories Today Bits Sound Focus Trouble Advice Keys Drama Right Now Following Distraction Publishing Key To Success

Author:Jeff Abbott

“There's a lot of pressure on women to fulfill certain fantasies. They expect you to be a little bit of a tart, to flirt with all the men. A lot of women do it. But I'm not doing that. I talk with these guys about their wives and kids right away. When they say inappropriate things, I let them, because boys will be boys, but I'm not looking to participate in their conversations.”

Men Littles Kids Guy Certain Bits Women Boys Fantasy Wife He Man Conversation Little Bit Pressure Flirting Inappropriate Tarts

Author:Jessica Alba

“There is no gene "for" such unambiguous bits of morphology as your left kneecap or your fingernail. [...] Hundreds of genes contribute to the building of most body parts and their action is channeled through a kaleidoscopic series of environmental influences: embryonic and postnatal, internal and external. Parts are not translated genes, and selection doesn't even work directly on parts.”

Body Action Left Bits Influence Building Series Environmental Internals Genes Selection Fingernails Morphology Environmental Influences

Book:The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.”

Film Bits Chance Independence Reincarnation Really Cool Cool Things

Author:Mel Gibson

“Snow pursued by the wind is not wholly unlike a retreating army. In the open field it ranges itself in ranks and battalions; where it can get a foothold it makes a stand; where it can take cover it does so. You may see whole platoons of snow cowering behind a bit of broken wall.”

May Doe Whole Bits Behinds Fields Wind Broken Wall Army Snow Range Pursued Open Fields

Book:Can Such Things Be?

Source: Can Such Things Be?

“Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.”

Writing Littles Hard Bits Little Bit Scripts Gigs

Author:Mel Gibson

“I know what I think but I don't know how to put it into words. Maybe I could get a little bit drunk and dance it for you.”

Thinking Knows Littles Bits Know How Little Bit Drunk

Author:Woody Allen

“I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing.”

Writing Years Might Felt Bits Acting Offers Focused Bells Bugs Stale

Author:Mel Gibson

“It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.”

Moving Bits Levels Technology Impossible Information Leaving Meaningless Fragments Cyberpunk Personal Information

Book:Burning Chrome

Source: Burning Chrome

“My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of gift and when it came time to try to find a publisher I had a little bit of an "in" because I had his agent I could turn to, to at least read my initial offerings when I was about 20. But the only problem was that they were just awful, they were just terrible stories and my agent, who ended up being my agent, was very, very sweet about it, but it took about four years until I actually had something worth trying to sell.”

“We all have the dark, ignorant shadow inside us. I have worked endlessly to reveal it and heal it in me, but of course there's some primitive weird stuff in me. The Tea Party is about exhorting white supremacy, though, so I've had a tiny bit of trouble experiencing sympathy.”

Courses Stuff Bits Dark White Party Trouble Shadow Tiny Heal Ignorant Tea Primitive White Supremacy Tea Party Supremacy Weird Stuff

Author:Anne Lamott

“I am pregnant with song. My body aches but do not betray me. I will sing songs and hide them away. I will tear them into bits and throw them in the street. The streets of my city are full of dark holes. I will hide my songs in the holes of the streets.”

Body Song Bits Dark Cities Streets Tears Holes Betray Pregnant Ache

Book:Mid-American Chants

Source: Mid-American Chants

“The fear of missing out means that today’s media, more than ever before, hunts in a pack. In these modes it is like a feral beast, just tearing people and reputations to bits. But no-one dares miss out.”

People Mean Today Bits Media Missing Dare Reputation Beast Packs Hunts Missing Out

Author:Tony Blair

“The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and with a mature sense of the sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism.”

Bits Pieces Buddhism Method Sacred Pockets Mature Followers Hinduism Pathetic Derrida

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“Across the narrow beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I; And fast I gather, bit by bit, The scattered drift-wood, bleached and dry, The wild waves reach their hands for it, The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, As up and down the beach we flit, One little sand-piper and I.”

Littles Hands Running Bits Wind Wave Woods Beach Dry Sand Tides Up And Down Pipers Rave

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“"I smell fennel," Launcelot said. "That reminds me, I should tell you I have discovered a specific for maims. You take salt, good-quality river mud, and bee urine, and slather it on the maim and hold it there for two days. Works like a charm. Gathering the bee urine is a bit of a bore."”

Should Said Two Bits Quality Rivers Smell Charm Salt Bees Bores Mud Gathering Two Days Good Quality

Author:Donald Barthelme

“My mum did encourage me, perhaps most of all by never discouraging me from anything I wanted to do. If you tell kids not to, they're going to do it in the end anyway. I'd finished all that staying-out-all-night-drinking bit when everybody else came to it. Probably why I don't like alcohol today. I had it all by the age of 10.”

Ifs Ends Kids Age Today Wanted Night Bits Drinking Finished Alcohol Staying Mum All Night Discouraging

Author:George Harrison

“I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.”

Source: The Witch-woman: A Trilogy about Her

“I don't really agree that most academics frown when they hear Wikipedia. Most academics I find quite passionate about the concept of Wikipedia and like it quite a bit. The number of academics who really really don't like Wikipedia is really quite small and we find that they get reported on in the media far out of proportion to the amount they actually exist.”

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Author:Jimmy Wales

“Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit.”

Play Bits Instruments Fingers Drunk Piano Percussion

Author:Charles Bukowski

“The suggestion that the prime minister had been flirting with one of the senior women cabinet ministers made me laugh every time I saw it, and I thought, "if you only knew!" Perhaps they should have pushed it a bit harder.”

Ifs Should Made Bits Laughing Saws Should Have Harder Ministers Prime Senior Suggestions Prime Minister Flirting Cabinets If Only You Knew

Author:Edwina Currie

“The good bodybuilders have the same mind ... that a sculptor has. If you analyze it, you look in the mirror and you say, okay, I need a bit more deltoids ... so that the proportion's right, and ... you exercise and put those deltoids on, whereas an artist would just slap on some clay on each side.”

Ifs Needs Mind Looks Artist Bits Sides Exercise Okay Mirrors Proportion Clay Slap Sculptors Bodybuilder

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“A bit of a stomach give a chap a position in society.”

Giving Bits Position Stomach Chaps

Book:And Yet...: Essays

Source: And Yet...: Essays

“That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.”

Men Bits Water Asking Crawling Sahara

Author:Alan Bennett

“We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale. Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?"”

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Author:Alan Bennett

“My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .”

Persons Whole Bits Imagination Pieces Subjects Educated Bits And Pieces Whole Person

Book:Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962

Source: Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962

“I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.”

Heart Two Might Running Age Bits Pieces Football Legs I Realized Old Age Thirty Rising Retiring Bob Wages Curtains Lungs Lace Puff Guinea

Book:New and Collected Stories

Source: New and Collected Stories

“From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.”

Heart Two Hands Mother Father Bits Son Folks Contrary Broke

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“I've always felt, and I don't like to say this because I sound like an ex-patriot, I always feel quite a bit more comfortable sometimes in Canada. For a variety of reasons. I just think it's a politer place. Kind of. You don't have quite the population to deal with but you don't immediately get into skirmishes with everybody. If you had any passport, any terrorist would let the Canadians off the plane.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Kind Sometimes Reason Felt Bits Sound Deals Comfortable Population Terrorist Variety Planes Canada Patriot Exes Passports

Author:Tim Allen

“I may go back and spice it up with a little bit of the tool stuff and grunting and all that that I know so well. But it feels like I'm rehashing old material. And some of my audiences like that. So I'm there to entertain. I'm not there to make a political statement or anything like that. I'm there to entertain.”

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Author:Tim Allen

“What's changed? I'm a dad. That's fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit. You can watch a bug crawling around for minutes at a time--just sit and marvel at its complexity, the utter bugness of it. I've learned to do that again.”

Kids Grows Bits Watches Minutes Changed Dad Fundamentals Complexity I've Learned Bugs Crawling

Author:Bob Weir

“Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was a bit of a copycat writer and very derivative and tried to write a novel using their voices, really.... I keep it out of print.”

People Writing Wells Young Bits Voice Novel Print Derivatives Young Writers Copycats Celine

Author:Mordecai Richler

“Up until I came here this week, and I met so many women and young girls who feel, to use their word - and I'm a bit embarrassed, but it's a good word - empowered, by watching. I realized this isn't a burden, this is an honor.”

Feels Use Young Girl Bits Week Honor Mets Burden I Realized Embarrassed Empowered Good Words

Author:Lucy Lawless

“All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.”

Believe Littles Whole Faith Bits Truth Is Little Bit Mirrors Shattered

Book:The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law

Source: The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law

“Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.”

Body Law Certain Bits Brain Sadness Subjects Flow Machines Clock Nerves Chemicals Electricity Mechanic Acid Electrical Electrons Arousal

Book:Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

“I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can't just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it's really in how the technology is used. What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we're going.”

“I work out as little as I can for as much gain as I can. Yoga and a little bit of ballet -- only 30 or 40 minutes every other day. I keep supple for myself more than for roles.”

Littles I Can Bits Roles Minutes Little Bit Yoga Gains Work Out Ballet Supple

Author:Julie Andrews