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Source: White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war

“Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod.”

Should May Doe Made Bits Horse Sacred Musical Golden Hammers Musical Instruments Persia

Book:Redburn.His First Voyage

Source: Redburn.His First Voyage

“You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.”

Order Bits Economy Forever Productive Fund Unprecedented Squeezing Unproductive

Author:Daniel Hannan

“... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.”

Home Easy Bits Family Son Stranger Exile

Author:Albert Camus

“Physical love, so unjustly decried, forces everyone to manifest even the smallest bits of kindness he possesses, of selflessness,that they shine in the eyes of all who surround him.”

Eye Force Sex Bits Kindness Shining Surround Manifest Smallest Selflessness

Author:Marcel Proust

“unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag, of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag. Not always, mind you. Usually I'm like my frying pan useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan.”

Mind I Can Bits Plans Dog Boredom Shakes Contentment Flags Drag Desks My Dog Sturdy Frying Frying Pans Capers

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“The women of my mother's generation had, in the main, only one decision to make about their lives: who they would marry. From that, so much else followed: where they would live, in what sort of conditions, whether they would be happy or sad or, so often, a bit of both. There were roles and there were rules.”

Would Be Mother Bits Women Decision Roles Generations Conditions

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“If a young man is going to get ahead, if he is going to reach the top, he must be all wrapped up in what he is doing. He has to give his job - whatever it is - not only his talent but every bit of his enthusiasm and devotion.”

Ifs Men Giving Jobs Young Bits Talent Devotion Enthusiasm Young Man Get Ahead

Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupid's foot between Venus's thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied "Madam, the painter was a fool, for he has placed the foot where the hand should be.”

Ifs Should Hands Bits Rooms Pieces Feet Fine Fool Drawing Painter Queens Hung Palaces Thighs Venus Guise Cupid Obscenity Connoisseur

Author:Horace Walpole

“Other people--grandparents, sisters and brothers, the mother's best friend, the next-door neighbor--get to be familiar to the baby. If the mother communicates her trust in these people, the baby will regard them as delicious novelties. Anybody the mother trusts whom the baby sees often enough partakes a bit of the presence of the mother.”

People Ifs Enough Mother Next Bits Doors Brother Baby Regard Communicate Neighbor Familiar Grandparent Brothers And Sisters Delicious Novelty Next Door Neighbors

Book:Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

Source: Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual

“Four turnovers. Two assists. I told him he'd have the game ball if he had taken care of the ball a little bit better.”

Ifs Littles Two Care Games Bits Taken Four Little Bit Balls Turnover

Author:Bo Ryan

“A bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort.”

Sex Bits Effort Creativity Creative Conversation Climate Pleasant

Book:Kiss Hollywood good-by

Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by

“China's Premier Zhao Ziyang, for all of his billion constituents, seemed in the evening's lovely flow like a favorite uncle, smiling a little too much, wanting to be a bit American, talking about peace and pork chops.”

Littles Bits Talking Too Much Flow China Billions Lovely Evening Uncles Constituents Pork Pork Chops Favorite Uncle

Author:Hugh Sidey

“Made no mistake: America is a Christian nation. The bedrock of our theo-democracy is our Judeo-Christian values. that term, by the way, is a bit of a misnomer. It implies that Christianity and Judaism are equal.”

Way Made Christian America Religion Values Nations Bits Term Mistake Christianity Democracy Equal Judaism Bedrock Christian Nation Christian Values Christianity And Judaism

Author:Stephen Colbert

“...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to run into you and believe you are your characters. And I suppose the funny thing is the longer you go, you do become sort of some version of [your characters]. You both diverge from them - you know - you live, but you also permanently inhabit that geography and that mental space - and so you do morph a little bit. We do become what we imagine.”

“Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.”

Bits Speed Slow Down Eagerness

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“I've found that I snack less and concentrate better when I chew on a plastic stirrer - the kind that you get to stir your to-go coffee. I picked up this habit from my husband, who loves to chew on things. His favorite chew-toy is a plastic pen top, and gnawed pen tops and little bits of plastic litter our apartment.”

Kind Littles Found Bits Habit Husband Little Bit Coffee My Husband Pens Plastic Toys Apartment Snacks Authentic Happiness Stirrers

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“Anytime you run a gimmick offence, you're a little bit afraid - you're not sound in what you're doing in your base stuff.”

Littles Running Stuff Bits Sound Little Bit Nfl Offence Gimmicks Trash Talking

Author:Richard Sherman

“Mathematics... is a bit like discovering oil. ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.”

Way Science Found Bits Forever Advantage Mathematics Oil Discovering

Author:Andrew Wiles

“The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement [P and not Q] and the statement [Q and not P].”

Knows Men Science Bits Differences Men And Women Logic Mathematics Statements Bathroom Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:John Allen Paulos

“I know a little bit about deaf culture because a friend of mine has been in the deaf culture for awhile. Over the course of 25 years, she and I have talked about many of the issues and concerns for deaf people and deaf culture.”

People Knows Years Littles Has Beens Culture Courses Bits Issues Mines Little Bit Concern Deaf Deafness

Author:John Scalzi

“I'm doing the exact same thing and adding a little bit more flexibility. I'm going to bench here. I'm not a kicker who's just going to hang out at practice. I'm going to be in the weight room pushing linebackers, defensive ends, tight ends. I'm going to push everyone. whatever I'm doing, I'm putting up numbers that someone else would do. Not only do I love working out, but at the same time it's able for others to maximize their potential.”

Littles Ends Able Bits Rooms Numbers Practice Little Bit Weight Work Out Nfl Pushing Hanging Out Flexibility Benches Linebackers Weight Room Kickers

Author:Kyle Brindza

“There are different 'It' factors for different players. There are all kinds of different personalities of quarterbacks around the league, but there are a lot of good ones and they don't necessarily think and act alike. But I do think there are moments during games even on the collegiate level where you can see that this guys is something different, someone sees things differently, they see things a little bit quicker, they're a little bit more cognizant of what's going on. I think it's something like that.”

Thinking Kind Littles Different Moments Guy Games Bits Levels Player Personality Little Bit Factors All Kinds League Nfl This Guy Quarterback Cognizant

Author:Ted Thompson

“My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love'...My mother supposed it was a bit like asking permission from the head of the family...the Communist Party was the new patriarch.”

Writing Said Mother Father Bits Party Cities Asking China Communist Permission Committees Communist Party Patriarch Asking Permission

Author:Jung Chang

“What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's tomb and do DNA samples and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the virgin birth was just a bit of mythologizing the Gospel writers threw in to appeal to the followers of the Mithra and Dionysian religious cults that were hugely popular at the time of Jesus, whose gods had virgin births? Could you still be a Christian? Is the way of Jesus still the best possible way to live?”

“Where there's self importance, there's only a very little bit of you and that little bit is distorted. It's in a holding pattern that is false to what it knows. That holding pattern forbids you, in that little bit of you, from being the rest of you.”

Knows Littles Self Bits Little Bit Importance Patterns Self-importance

Author:John de Ruiter

“I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a Prime Minister.”

Thinking Bits Roles Female Constant Ministers Australia Feds Prime Prime Minister Fed Up Belittle Women In Politics

Author:Christine Milne

“I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.”

Ifs Littles I Can Two Lying Night Three Bits Hours Watches Tvs Little Bit Relax Afternoon Exhausted Naps Night Time

Author:China Machado

“You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful.”

Littles Life Is Bits Realizing Little Bit Horse Careful Mortality Fragile Wild Horses

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I think music should be judged on what it is. It should be very high and above everything else. It is a beautiful way of bringing people together, a little bit of an oasis in this messed-up world.”

People Thinking World Way Should Littles Together Beautiful Bits Little Bit Judged Messed Up Oasis

Author:Sonny Rollins

“i love girls under pressure but wouldn't recommend it to people who are under 10. i read it at the age of nine but my sister told me the bit u should never do. all in all, i loved this book and any jacqueline wilson fans over 10 i would recommend it to!”

People Should Book Age Girl Bits Fans Pressure Nine My Sister Wilson Under Pressure

Author:Jacqueline Wilson

“On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.”

Littles Today Guy Turns Wish Bits Sports Chance Cutting Little Bit Athlete Clock

Author:Eric Heiden

“[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul”

Humans Book Soul Character Together Past Humanity Bits Stage Fine Civilization Newspapers Clothings Human Soul Scrap Rags Past And Present

Book:Twelve Major Plays

Source: Twelve Major Plays

“All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every bit as good as that of children whose mothers do not work.”

Knows Children School Mother Social Bits Emotional Development Achievement Tests Score Social Development Mother Child Test Scores

Author:Sandra Scarr

“We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.”

Wells Bits Sea Grew Grew Up Tasks Philosophical Philosopher Stuck Ships Conclusion Evolve Leap Schemes Mariners

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“Apparently I'm in rehab for intensive partying soooo I'm just going to lay pretty low for a bit and maybe get some frozen yogurt.”

Bits Party Lows Lays Frozen Rehab Yogurt

Author:Ireland Baldwin

“People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance a bit.”

People Ifs Thinking Bigs Bits Subjects Balance Okay Photographer Jerk

Author:Mick Rock

“Gossip, then, is content, a message about people; rumor is a process. It takes a bit of gossip and reshapes it, modifies it in some way, and passes it along from individual to individual in different ways.”

People Way Different Individual Bits Process Messages Different Ways Gossip Rumor

Book:Gossip: The Inside Scoop

Source: Gossip: The Inside Scoop

“Everybody is exposed to radiation. A little bit more or a little bit less is of no consequence.”

Littles Bits Little Bit Consequence Exposed Radiation

Author:Dixie Lee Ray

“I cop a fair bit of flack for going from 'such a babe to such a boy'. I wanted to share (that) story.”

Stories Wanted Bits Boys Share Fairs Cop Babe

Author:Ruby Rose

“I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm just working for an hour in the evening. I get a bit breathless, as I have to talk non-stop because of the puppets.”

Thinking Easy Bits Hours Five Nine Evening Desks Puppets Breathless Non Stop

Author:Nina Conti

“Feeding the media is like training a dog. You can't throw an entire steak at a dog to train it to sit. You have to give it little bits of steak over and over again until it learns.”

Giving Littles Bits Media Dog Little Bit Training Train Feeding Steak

Book:Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World

Source: Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World

“There is a little bit of Nils Bohlin in every car.”

Littles Bits Car Little Bit

Author:Nils Bohlin

“Going onstage without my primary instrument is like being a guitarist and going up onstage with no guitar waiting for you. What do you do? That's why performance is painful for me, because I feel like I am always in a strange place with a bit of a handicap.”

Feels Bits Waiting Strange Performances Instruments Guitar Painful Primaries Guitarist Waiting For You Handicaps Strange Places

Author:Son Lux

“I had a good, sound upbringing with sensible people around me. I was brought up by intelligent parents. My mother always said to me, "You've got to work at your career and you've got to be good at it. Okay, you've had a bit of success but that's not longevity. You've got to really work for a long time."”

People Long Said Mother Bits Parent Sound Careers Long Time Okay Intelligent Be Good Sensible Longevity Upbringing

Author:Olivia Newton-John

“It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.”

Hard Bits Annoyed Cringe

Author:Michael Kiwanuka

“It's a little bit odd. The first time you do the play, you kind of throw yourself into it, trying to get the most out of all the individual moments. Then, a few hours later, you're still there, wondering what you could possibly do differently than what you just did a couple hours ago.”

Trying Firsts Kind Littles Stills Play Moments Individual Bits Hours Wonder Couple Little Bit First Time Odd

Author:Michael Shannon

“That could sound arrogant, I guess, but sometimes I feel like I have a bit of a Zelig thing. I'll blend in wherever. I'm from the South, so I'll have a Southern accent when I'm home. But if I'm up here in New York, I have a British accent.”

Ifs Feels Sometimes Home Bits Sound New York South British Southern Arrogant Accents Southern Accent

Author:Michael Shannon

“I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I'm trying to write a little bit most evenings just to keep the creative juices flowing.”

Writing Trying Littles Bits Creative Directors Little Bit Capacity Marketing Evening These Days Agency Juice Creative Juices

Author:Ian Doescher

“I never envisioned myself being a film star at all. Most people know that pro wrestling is a little bit of an accident for me. I never really had any real aspirations of being in front of a camera.”

People Knows Littles Real Film Stars Bits Fronts Little Bit Cameras Accidents Aspiration Wrestling Film Stars Pro Wrestling

Author:Roddy Piper

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