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“When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking of little arts and bits of learning. My mother carefully fostered a liking for botany, giving me a small microscope and many books, which I yet have. Strange as it may seem, I now believe that botany and the natural system, by exercising discrimination of kinds, is the best of logical exercises. What I may do in logic is perhaps derived from that early attention to botany.”

“I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think you were too mean to change frocks between funerals.”

People Ifs Thinking Mean Might Bits Black Color Clothes My Time Funeral Black People

Book:South Riding

Source: South Riding

“The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.”

Knows Writing Bits Novel Creation Difficulty Selection Novel Writing

Book:Letters to a Friend

Source: Letters to a Friend

“When you get to the NFL, the hits are a little bit harder. That’s why I see the Chiropractor”

Littles Bits Little Bit Harder Nfl

Author:Maurice Jones-Drew

“People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.”

People Giving Writing Littles Order Found Bits Little Bit

Author:Dorothy Allison

“I always enjoyed sport. I was a bit of a wild child, to be honest, and just loved running around.”

Children Running Bits Sports Honest Enjoyed Being Honest Wild Child

Author:Kiki Dee

“Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.”

Way Littles Sometimes Bits Fronts Photography Little Bit News Pages Dry Journalistic

Author:Chris Hondros

“my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic.”

People Young Bits Waste Ears Decades Tiny Mice Elders Attics Relays

Book:Sapogonia: An Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter

Source: Sapogonia: An Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter

“You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Littles Home Bits Acting Stage Television Little Bit Theater

Author:Tina Fey

“I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.”

People Littles Stars Bits Fantasy Figures Fame Projects Abstract

Author:Salma Hayek

“To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.”

Bits Seeing Poet Musician Comedian Really Great

Author:Dick Gregory

“the compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is a bit of mental wiring the species has selected, over time, in order, as the life span increases, to keep us interested in ourselves.”

Should Writing Seems Order Reading Bits Increase Species Compulsion Selected Life Span Wiring

Author:Lorrie Moore

“No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?”

“Oh, me? I'm not 80% water. I'm 80% coffee, and a little bit of sass.”

Littles Bits Water Little Bit Coffee Sass

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.”

Bits Manic Workaholic

Author:Gavin Rossdale

“I see myself as a bit of a traveller. I am a workaholic.”

Bits Traveller Workaholic

Author:Ricki-Lee Coulter

“a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.”

Littles Reality Poetry Bits Taste Little Bit Wine Glasses Wine Glass

Author:Gwen Harwood

“Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind.”

Men Stories Bits Wind Cold Paper Unborn Cold Wind

Author:George Mackay Brown

“Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step who would enter into the mystery and adventure of the great white North.”

Way Book Bits Lines White Steps Mystery Adventure Wilderness Steel Threshold Landing Railroads Picturesque

Book:The Valley of Silent Men

Source: The Valley of Silent Men

“When someone like Kurt Cobain or Jack White comes out, they didn't go, "He sounds just like Muddy Waters," did they? They just said, "He's great, he sounds like him." When women come out and men write about them, they tend to write about them in a way that other men can understand, which sometimes can seem a bit patronizing.”

Men Way Writing Said Sometimes Seems Bits Sound Water White Muddy Cobain Patronizing

Author:Shingai Shoniwa

“The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in letting the child have its own will, plunging headlong to destruction with the bits in its mouth. There is no mercy to society nor to the criminal if the wrong is not repressed and the right vindicated. We injure the culprit who comes up to take his proper doom at the bar of justice, if we do not make him feel that he has done a wrong thing. We may deliver his body from the prison, but not at the expense of justice nor to his own injury.”

“Every bit of you has been replaced many times over... The point is that you are like a cloud: something that persists over long periods, whilst simultaneously being in flux. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made.”

Long Has Beens Made Matter Together Stuff Bits Periods Flow Clouds Be You Replaced Persist Flux

Author:Steve Grand

“It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.”

Ifs Knows Bits Inaction

Book:Harriet Spies Again

Source: Harriet Spies Again

“Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You must have all your skills under control from the first instant.”

Writing Firsts Stories Bits Lines Skills Starting Opening Hills Instant Skis

Book:Our Stories: A Fiction Workshop for Young Authors

Source: Our Stories: A Fiction Workshop for Young Authors

“Writing is the perfect balance between self-confidence and self-doubt, with a bit of self-delusion thrown in.”

Writing Self Bits Perfect Doubt Balance Self Confidence Thrown Delusion Self-doubt Self Delusion Perfect Balance

Author:Judith Kelman

“Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the business with a conviction that nobody but a fool would spend so much time in cutting bits of dry goods into yet small bits and sewing them together again, just for the sake of making believe that they were busy at practical work.”

Years Believe Made Together Bits Cutting Fool Couple Years Ago Twenties Busy Sake Conviction Quitting Practicals Dry Goods Dozen Sewing Together Again Quilts

Book:Yours for Liberty

Source: Yours for Liberty

“Secretly in my heart, I believe food is a doorway to almost every dimension of our existence. ... Food never was just food. From the time a cave person first came out from under a rock, food has been a little bit of everything: who we are spiritually as well as what keeps us alive. It's a gathering place, and in the best of all worlds it's possible that when people of one country sit down to eat another culture's food it will open their minds to the culture itself. Food is a doorway to understanding, and it can be as profound or as facile as you would like it to be.”

“Now I understand what exhaustion is. It’s not just a code word for heroin addiction. People don’t teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it’s something I’d never had to handle, because I’d been rejected for so long.”

People Littles Long Bits Teach Little Bit Addiction Handle Code Rejected Exhaustion Heroin Workload Heroin Addiction

Author:Felicia Day

“Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.”

Ifs Whole Would Be Bits Class Taken Flight Roger Scum

Book:Capital

Source: Capital

“A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.”

Matter Bits Differences Player Finals Details Slam Better Days

Author:Sabine Lisicki

“Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.”

Trying Heart Children Use Bits Figures Discipline Protect Intuition Raising Children Foresight

Author:Nicole Ari Parker

“I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.”

People Firsts Littles Persons Made Stills Country Bits Rocks Brother Listening Grew Little Bit Grew Up Moved Musical Genre Rock N Roll Confusing Chuck Berries Hybrid Everly Brothers

Author:Teddy Thompson

“I just enjoy playing in wind, grew up in it, and it makes the golf a bit more fun.”

Fun Bits Enjoy Wind Grew Grew Up Golf

Author:Louis Oosthuizen

“Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism.”

America Bits Understanding Rights Policy Taught Citizens Capitalism Ultimate Constitution Bills Entitlement Bill Of Rights Insurance Policy Niger

Author:Niger Innis

“When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating now, or you can let it cool and eat it bit by bit later one. Either way, you end up eating the whole thing. There's really no way around it.”

Way Ends Whole Bigs Dies Bits Sadness Fronts Eating Hot Bowls One You Love Someone You Love

Author:Ralph Fletcher

“I've got a lot of shows under my belt that are ancient history solely because they were on the air before this video revolution came along and ensured that canceled shows could continue to have a bit of a presence.”

Shows Bits Air Revolution Ancient Video Belts Ancient History

Author:Jim Beaver

“You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period. It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period. But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.”

Ifs Writing Wells May Long Done Moving Order Bits Process Poor Ready Periods Excellent Productive Mediocre

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I know: If you're looking down at Earth, you're looking through an atmosphere that has a bit of haze in many places and not just occasional clouds.”

Ifs Knows Earth Bits Clouds Atmosphere Occasional Looking Down Haze

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.”

Humans Bits Air Pressure Atmosphere Mars Air Pressure

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.”

Firsts Humans Bits Direct Claims Global Warming Carbon Inclination Skeptical Carbon Dioxide Contributors

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.”

Kind Bits Loses Dignity Sanity Cartoon Inhibitions

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.”

“I remember I prayed to God. I was like, "Just let me be on TV." Let my friends see me on TV in a good thing. I like, if I'm funny a little bit on a commercial and then I don't need to act ever again. "Just let them see me." And then it worked. I got the commercial. I was on TV. My friends all saw me. I was a kind of a star at school for like three days. And then it faded away and I was hungry and I had to like make another deal with God. I remember it still.”

Ifs Needs Kind Littles Stills School Remember Three Stars Bits Deals Saws Tvs Little Bit My Friends Let Me Good Things Hungry Faded

Author:Jack Black

“I always cast people with a sense of humor because people that are super serious don't understand when I ask them to eat a booger it's not necessarily about that. It's about something more. It's about inviting a little bit of absurdity into the process and humanity into the process. Making sure that no matter who we are and what sort of pedestal or glamorous lighting we're under, we're all eating boogers man.”

People Men Littles Matter Humanity Asks Bits Process Serious Eating Little Bit Casts Who We Are Sense Of Humor Absurdity Glamorous Lighting Inviting Pedestal Boogers

Author:David Gordon Green

“I see myself as a student. I would never call myself a master or a maestro. If you take the path of the student, that means you have to try a little bit of everything in hopes that you're going to learn something or strike some kind of new note, expression in the process. I'm not going for grades; I'm going for an education. I'm going to continue experimenting and trying new things to try to evolve and learn.”

Ifs Trying Kind Mean Littles Bits Process Sound Path Students Expression Masters Little Bit Notes Strikes Evolve Grades New Things Trying New Things Maestro

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Confidence: It's the difference between the girl with the perfect body in a one-piece bathing suit, pulling at it and thinking she's not thin enough or doesn't have big enough boobs - and the girl who people call a bit overweight, but meanwhile, she's wearing a bikini and guys are saying, "God, she's sexy." It all has to do with how you feel about yourself - it's about projecting the attitude, I'm OK with who I am.”

“I liked the idea of being a photographer, just that you take this one picture of this one thing that'll never happen again - it's a bit weird when you think about it.”

Thinking Ideas Happens Bits One Thing Photographer

Author:Courtney Barnett

“I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.”

Thinking Political Belief Bits Situation Heard Particular Myth Political Beliefs

Author:Kevin Spacey

“None of us is perfect. Everyone has got a skeleton in the closet that they don't want people to find out. I just let it go, with a bit of humor.”

People Want Bits Perfect Closets Let It Go Skeletons Just Let It Go

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“And I never missed one concert. In 89 shows, I think I did one a bit suspect show. In the old days, I'd pull gigs left, right and center because I was too f - - up.”

Thinking Shows Left Bits Suspects Concerts Gigs Old Days Missed Ones

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

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