“I find my dress sense tends to be a bit of a mixture between high fashion and unique vintage pieces with a little bit of street trends. For example, I might find a really nice, suede dinner jacket that I'd wear with a basic plain white shirt and some chinos and a pair of Nike trainers.” LittlesMightBitsWhitePiecesNiceStreetsFashionExampleLittle BitUniqueDressesDinnerShirtsPairsTrendsMixturesJacketsReally NiceTrainersVintageNikeHigh FashionWhite Shirts Author:Tinie Tempah
“I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.” KnowsWayFeelsWritingLittlesStillsHardLostBitsProcessExampleLittle BitMy WayFamiliarity Author:Sara Zarr
“Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment, but I'd always be thinking a little bit ahead. That's especially so in a drawing where you are limiting yourself, a line drawing for example. When you are doing them you are very tense, because you have to reduce everything to such simple terms.” ThinkingLittlesMomentsWould BeBitsTermLinesSimpleSawsExampleLittle BitDrawsDrawingWhere You AreTenseConcentratingIpadsLimiting Yourself Author:David Hockney
“This is a perfect example of the power and ridiculousness of a website like Wikipedia. I did give a slightly contentious graduation speech, where I decided not to be funny as my classmates had hoped, which was why I was chosen. I was not valedictorian, that's for sure. Instead, I talked about the failure to communicate between the administration and the teachers and students. That's what was contentious about it. At some point, somebody wrote about that incident on my Wikipedia page. And then somebody added the bit about me exposing my genitals to the crowd.” GivingBitsPerfectTeacherExampleStudentsSpeechPagesDecidedCrowdsCommunicateChosenAdministrationIncidentsWebsiteExposingWikipediaTeacher And StudentClassmatesContentiousGraduation SpeechValedictorians Author:Nick Kroll
“Gisele Bundchen I always admired. I think she is an example for all models. If I could have just a little bit of her career would already be a happy girl. She seems to be a determined woman, a fighter, very strong. I think she is an icon of Brazilian people. Gisele is a woman who is extremely inspiring, not only in the fashion world, she also does great things for the world.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldLittlesDoeSeemsGirlStrongBitsCareersFashionExampleLittle BitModelsDeterminedGreat ThingsFighterIf I CouldVery StrongIconsHappy GirlFashion WorldDetermined Woman Author:Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
“I was becoming more cunning than an animal in hiding my supply of morphine. A squirrel saving nuts is limited by its undeveloped imagination ... but I was not so handicapped. A squirrel, for example, is debarred from sending money to some greedy doctor or druggist and making arrangements to have a bit of powder sent each day by mail.” BitsImaginationAnimalExampleBecomingDoctorsAddictionSavingEach DayHidingNutsMailArrangementsGreedyCunningBecoming MorePowderSquirrelsHandicappedMorphine Book:Queen of Diamonds: The Fabled Legacy of Evalyn Walsh McLean Source: Queen of Diamonds: The Fabled Legacy of Evalyn Walsh McLean
“The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense.” PeopleLittlesMightBitsCitiesAliveInformationExampleWalkingLateTraditionVariousGuidesSpotsBurningShopsNeighborhoodSquaresListenersEnlighteningLiteralLandmarksRecitingTour Guides Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day
“We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is perhaps for this reason that anthropologists have not shown much interest in these models, unlike economists, for example, for whom the use of mathematics poses no problem. However, one could reach the same conclusions by using just a bit of common sense.” ReasonUseProblemBitsInterestCommonExampleReaderModelsAdvantageMathematicsCommon SenseConclusionEconomistNo ProblemAppreciatedPrecisionAnthropologists Author:Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
“I wouldn't want to promote teenage girls having sex. But the reality is, it's happening, and they're just a little too young to understand how careful they need to be. That's a big battle with me, because I'm 23, and a lot of my fans are eight years younger than I am, so there's a bit of a tug-of-war there. I want to set the right example and, at the same time, live my life.” WantNeedsYearsLittlesWarBigsRealityYoungGirlSexBitsFansExampleBattleHappeningsCarefulEightTeenageLiving My LifeHaving SexTeenage GirlTug Of War Author:Rihanna
“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