“You can put people's feet to the fire a bit just by reminding them that we're constantly creating our own history.” PeopleBitsFireFeetCreatingReminding Author:Charlie Sheen
“Sometimes I just start humming something, find a melody I like a lot, and if it sticks around for a couple days, a few words will lock themselves into place. I might just get the first line. Then words just keep falling into the syllables. The choruses kind of write themselves and verses I have to work at a little bit.” IfsWritingFirstsKindLittlesSometimesMightFallBitsLinesCoupleLittle BitSticksMelodyVersesLocksChorusSyllablesFew WordsHumming Author:Jack Johnson
“Sometimes it's nice to be able to reflect on the music itself and then write lyrics that I feel anyone can relate to. It's not my dreaming tree that is dead. The feeling of a loss of hope is universal. There are moments that we've all felt a little bit of it, so I don't think it is something that is too hard to identify with.” ThinkingFeelsWritingLittlesSometimesHardMomentsFeelingsDreamAbleFeltBitsLossNiceTreeLittle BitUniversalRelate Author:Dave Matthews
“For me there's insecurity when you're releasing an album because you spend all of this time working on that one thing and then once it's done, it's done. After you put it out there to the public you never know which songs are going to work or even if the album is going to work as a whole so there is a little bit of nervousness around predicting what the numbers will be and if it's going to be well-received.” IfsKnowsWellsLittlesDoneWholeSongBitsNumbersOne ThingLittle BitAlbumsInsecurityGoing To WorkPredictingNervousness Author:John Legend
“Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.” HumorFunnyBitsTermLimitsMembersVoteAskingCongressChickensIncumbentsColonelsTerm Limits Author:Bob Inglis
“When you're in @#*!#-ing hell, your forehead can feel a wee bit feverish. (By the way, that's the way my wife actually curses. She doesn't use dirty words; she'll literally say "asterisk, pound sign, exclamation point, the-letter-'A'-with-a-circle-around-it, asterisk, asterisk, asterisk.")” WayFeelsUseFunnyBitsHellWifeLettersMy WifeCirclesDirtyCursePoundsForeheadsSwearingExclamationDirty WordsExclamation Points Author:Paul Reiser
“The thing about film is it is a very precise form. You know if you have it and you know if you don't have it. There's not really a middle bit where you're like, "I think we kind of have that scene."” IfsThinkingKnowsKindFilmFormBitsMiddleScenePrecise Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!” LittlesMotherCultureBitsDrinkLittle BitBritishTeaOur FamilyBritish Culture Author:Kurt Cobain
“My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and interact with people. It's very much like an archival process. I understand that the Brothers Grimm would go out and get people talking so they could document folk tales that weren't being documented any other way. I try to offer a little bit of myself - some experience from my life that evokes stories in other people.” PeopleWayWritingTryingLittlesStoriesBitsProcessTalkingBrotherOffersLittle BitFolksTalesDocumentsEvokePeople TalkingGrimmBrothers Grimm Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear.” ShouldLittlesStoriesBitsLittle Bit Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“The upsides of acting in things is mostly getting your hair done and having people give you clothes. So as long as you can have a little bit of that in your life, then it's just as delightful to be behind camera.” PeopleGivingLittlesLongDoneBitsActingBehindsHairLittle BitClothesCamerasDelightful Author:Tina Fey
“If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer. Now if a joke is in bad taste or it's not funny, okay, that's awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer's job is, and I don't think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.” IfsThinkingGivingShouldLittlesDifferentJobsArtistBitsSubjectsPersonalityOughtTasteJokesConceptsOkayCreditTechniqueCraftsDifferent ThingsExcessIndulgeConstraintsEditorialsBad Taste Author:Bill Watterson
“There are these people who keep taking you in and feeding you and loving you and making the world a tiny bit safer than it feels. People have community and family, but existentially we are deeply isolated.” PeopleWorldFeelsBitsCommunityTinyIsolatedFeedingLoving You Author:Anne Lamott
“I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring on a co-teacher, but I'll still be a pastor and a writer.” FirstsStillsBitsChurchRolesTeacherPreacherPastor Author:Max Lucado
“The liberation of women has brought a lot of equality to the man, in the emancipation of the man as a bulldog; we can also be soft. It's interesting, because sometimes I maybe push the men a little bit more than the women, because it's a little bit less expected.” MenLittlesSometimesBitsInterestingHe ManLittle BitExpectedLiberationEmancipationBulldogs Author:Mario Testino
“I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils.” WritingLittlesStoriesSeemsGuyAsksFeltBitsMysteryHorrorLittle BitDevilGhostUncomfortableDemonNastyOur LoveDetectivesHorror StoriesGoblinDetective StoriesBoogie Author:Stephen King
“I'm absolutely convinced that this is a world of appearances, not reality. There's one reality and that's Light and Love. When some say, we create our own reality, I always demur and say, "Please, would you mind adjusting that a little bit? We create our own appearances." We become master of appearances and as we change our thought, we will see the appearances around us change. That gives us this huge sense of dominion and power and control over our world.” WorldGivingMindLittlesRealityLightBitsMastersHugePleaseLittle BitAnd LoveAppearanceConvincedOur WorldOur ThoughtsDominionAdjustingPower And ControlLight And Love Author:Richard Bach
“I'm just a little bit tired If you know what I mean Don't want to be in a crowd When I can be in a dream.” IfsKnowsWantMeanLittlesI CanDreamBitsSadnessSadLittle BitTiredCrowds Author:Jim Steinman
“The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it'll be paraded round Sotheby's by people wearing white gloves.” PeopleIfsLooksBitsWhitePiecesOne ThingPaintingMonthsRoundsPreservesRelyRemoveHalfwayDisturbedGlovesWearing White Author:Banksy
“There are moments when it's unbelievable how people who work on the hair or on the little bit of skin here, they have no other care or interest since this part of their job is the only thing that needs to look good. So you have to push everybody to the side so that you can have a connection with your actor and give some air to your actor.” PeopleNeedsGivingLooksLittlesMomentsCareJobsActorsBitsSidesInterestAirHairLittle BitConnectionsSkinsUnbelievable Author:Audrey Tautou
“My mind absorbs things in a funny way. I'm on planes quite a bit and I always take stacks and stacks of magazines and I go through them and tear pages out and fold them up, and they get stuck at the bottom of my backpack or whatever.” WayMindBitsTearsPagesBottomStuckMagazinesPlanesFolds Author:Marc Jacobs
“I wanted to get my movie noticed WITHOUT spending any ad money. So I made a bit of a spectacle. I recorded lots of podcasts. I bickered with hate groups. I criticized critics. I banged pots together. I did everything I could to raise awareness without raising any money to do so.” MadeWantedTogetherHateBitsGroupsAwarenessRaisesCriticsSpendingPotAdsHate Groups Author:Kevin Smith
“I think working with actors is a little bit how a chef would work with a potato or a piece of meat. You have to kind of have a look at the potato or the piece of meat and see what kind of possibilities are in the ingredient. I know I'm using the wrong metaphor. I think my job is to see what potato is there and from there, just work under their conditions.” ThinkingKnowsLooksKindLittlesJobsActorsBitsPiecesConditionsPossibilityLittle BitMetaphorMeatIngredientsChefPotatoes Author:Lars von Trier
“It doesn't worry me a bit that China and Japan hold so much US debt. In a way, it seems foolish for them to do it because they get lower returns than they might elsewhere. But that is their business.” WaySeemsMightBitsWorryReturnChinaDebtFoolishJapanElsewhereChina And Japan Author:Milton Friedman
“I don't think that there is one "authentic" element of American style to identity - it's about a sense of freedom, individuality, and embracing personal style. Fashion also has a bit of mystery, which is part of the allure, and yet anyone can partake.” ThinkingBitsMysteryFashionStyleIdentityElementsIndividualityPersonal StyleAllureFashion Style Author:Thakoon Panichgul
“I know I made plenty of mistakes in my tenure. But one of the things that you learn is to be very careful and to protect yourself down the road a little bit, which is to say you've got to think ahead and think where is the story going to go? What are all the possible outcomes? And how do I protect the president from unexpected twists and turns in the road?” ThinkingKnowsLittlesMadeStoriesTurnsBitsPresidentMistakeProtectLittle BitCarefulPlentyOutcomesUnexpectedTwistsDown The RoadTenureProtect YourselfTwists And TurnsTurns In The Road Author:Dee Dee Myers
“People, especially the liberals, just live in this world where if anything is said that offends anybody even a little bit, not only does that person have to apologize; sometimes they have to go away forever. Go away, bad person. My analysis of this is that most of us don't do anything decent in our life. I'm not saying we're evil. I'm just saying we don't make a contribution, so the way they [liberals] think they're making a contribution is to point at the bad people [which] is somehow even more pathetic.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayLittlesPersonsDoeSaidSometimesEvilBitsForeverOur LivesThis WorldLittle BitAnalysisDecentContributionGoing AwayApologizingPatheticBad PeopleJust LiveJust Saying Author:Bill Maher
“In all the dictatorships, there's such a non-understanding of what human beings are. I mean, if you believe in the Bible, you have the story of Adam and Eve and God tells them, "Do whatever you want. The only thing you shouldn't do is eat the apple." What do they do the first thing? They eat the apple. So if you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.” IfsKnowsWantShouldFirstsBelieveHumansMeanLittlesStoriesBitsUnderstandingHuman BeingsPsychologyLittle BitApplesAdamDictatorshipIf You BelieveAdam And EveDo Whatever You Want Author:Marjane Satrapi
“Out of necessity, one needs to occasionally consume, but I'm a little concerned that there's a little bit of a myth arising that we can buy our way to a sustainable future, and I don't think that's the case.” ThinkingWayNeedsLittlesBitsCasesLittle BitConcernedMyth Author:Chip Giller
“Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.” PeopleImportantBitsFunctionPerformingHorizon Author:Wole Soyinka
“What I've found in working less is you start to get a bit more involved in the more real politics, which is local politics that affect what's going on in your own community.” RealFoundBitsCommunityInvolvedLocalsReal Politics Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“There are a lot of little tricks you can do to inject a bit more time into the day. Most important is limiting yourself to a 40 hour week, not working 50 hours or 60 or 70. It's just crazy. It's actually irresponsible to you and irresponsible to your family and friends. Why should your employer's profits be more important than your own family? You're not even going to get any of the profits - all you get is not losing your job. It's a very negative system.” ShouldLittlesImportantJobsBitsCan DoHoursWeekCrazyLosingNegativeProfitTricksOur FamilyMore TimeFamily And FriendsEmployersIrresponsibleLimiting Yourself Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.” PeopleThinkingTryingLooksCultureBits Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“I think there's a part of me that feels the need to hide a little bit behind a character.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsLittlesCharacterBitsBehindsLittle Bit Author:Kurt Sutter
“I would never have thought I was capable of sitting on the bench as the number two man. And it showed me that you can really achieve everything in life, even the unthinkable, as long as you're willing to work on yourself a little bit.” MenLittlesLongTwoBitsNumbersAchieveWillingLittle BitCapableSittingBenchesUnthinkableSitting On The Bench Author:Oliver Kahn
“I don't know why, but there's a certain element of panic in writing lyrics that I'm not sure I enjoy. I don't write lyrics first, ever. I've never done that. So, in a sense, the lyrics are a bit of an afterthought - it's music first.” KnowsWritingFirstsDoneCertainBitsEnjoyElementsNot SurePanicAfterthought Author:Mike Patton
“Right now I'm sick of acting, so it's like, Maybe I'll do writing for a bit. Then, when I'm tired of writing, I'll go work on my music. When I'm sick of music, I'll be like, I'm going to start performing comedy now. So it's good. It's not like I want to be famous or anything.” WantWritingBitsActingComedyRight NowSickTiredPerformingI'm Tired Author:Charlyne Yi
“I think we've missed a trick there. We could develop wheat with the properties of Velcro... to catch whatever it is that's forming those crop circles! But then the spaceship would have to have the corresponding Velcro, so it's a bit of a long shot.” ThinkingLongHumorFunnyBitsShotsPropertyCirclesTricksCropsWheatSpaceshipsCorrespondingLong ShotsVelcro Author:Bill Bailey
“The scotch egg is such a Scottish food. It's as though a great Scottish chef said: I need a tasty snack. Let's take an egg... and wrap it in meat!! Makes it a bit harder.” NeedsSaidHumorFunnyBitsHarderMeatEggsChefWrapsScottishScotchSnacksTasty Author:Bill Bailey
“You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order to attract its main prey, the so-called Samaritan squirrel, which takes pity on the spider, and then the spider jumps on it and injects the paralyzing venom, while the squirrel remains bafflingly philosophical about the whole thing. Not to be confused with the Ukrainian hunting spider, which actually has got a limp and is, as such, completely harmless, and a little bit bitter about the whole thing.” LittlesWholeHumorFunnyOrderThreeBitsLittle BitPhilosophicalRemainsLegsEightPityBitterConfusedHuntingSpidersPreyConvincingSquirrelsVenomUkrainianSamaritans Author:Bill Bailey
“I was fat! I was pustule-rich! I looked like a pink human grenade! When did I blossom into the irresistible little orchid that I am now? I don't know. Getting taller helps. It spreads out a bit.” KnowsHumansLittlesHelpingHumorFunnyBitsRichSpreadFatsIrresistibleGrenadeOrchids Author:Dylan Moran
“I've got a bit of Scottish Blood... On my kitchen knife!!” HumorFunnyBitsBloodKitchenKnivesScottishKitchen Knives Author:Milton Jones
“It had to be hammered home quite a bit because I didn't see any humour in my life at all.” HomeHumorFunnyBitsHumourHammered Author:Jimmy Carr
“The average life expectancy rate in some parts of Glasgow is 54. If you've ever been there, you'll realize that that's maybe a bit long.” IfsLongHumorFunnyBitsRealizingRateAverageExpectancyGlasgowLife ExpectancyAverage Life Author:Frankie Boyle
“The owners of a dog which swallowed a diamond worth £12000 had to wait three days until it re-emerged. With a bit of planning it could have been a nice way to propose.” WayHas BeensHumorFunnyThreeBitsWaitingNiceDogPlanningOwnersDiamondCould Have BeenPropose Author:Frankie Boyle
“Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how to swim by reading a book about swimming and nobody learns how to write by reading a book about writing. If you want to learn how to write, write a lot and you will get better at it.” IfsWantWritingBookReadingBitsGet BetterSwimSwimming Author:Robert Munsch
“I do think of my reader, or listener, really, more often, if I give a lecture, for example, and I know that I'm talking to these people; I enjoy sort of preening them a bit. But it's a matter of decorum, basically.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsGivingMatterBitsEnjoyTalkingExampleReaderListenersLecturesDecorum Author:William H. Gass
“Hope is such a powerful thing. We all have hope for different things, but I think sometimes we need to share our hope with other people. We're sometimes in our own issues, and it isolates us, but when we come together and encourage each other and give a little bit of hope, it can, like it says in the song, go a long way.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsGivingLittlesLongDifferentSometimesTogetherSongBitsPowerfulIssuesShareLittle BitDifferent ThingsLong WayHaving Hope Author:Natasha Bedingfield
“I love handbags. And shoes. Investing in like a great handbag or a pair of shoes can really make or break an outfit. It's fun to mix and match high street with luxury brands and throw in a bit of vintage as well.” WellsFunBitsBreakStreetsInvestingShoesLuxuryBrandsPairsVintagePair Of ShoesHandbagsMake Or Break Author:Miranda Kerr
“Whenever you see somebody's style you feel like you get to know them a little bit better by how they're dressed.” KnowsFeelsLittlesBitsStyleLike YouLittle Bit Author:Chanel West Coast