“Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.” YearsFirstsLittlesKidsBitsSportsGrowing UpFiveGrowingLittle BitAthleteTraditionalBeachRacingFreshmanSurferSkateboardingSophomoreSkateboarderSophomore YearBmxHuntington Beach Author:Jason Lee
“I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.” LittlesBitsGrowing UpGrowingLittle BitLengthViolinSkirts Author:Denise Van Outen
“I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.” PeopleDifferentHappensBitsGrowing UpGrowingSucceedToolsIncrediblesPrivilegeRussiaThings HappenRealisingLooking BackMake Things HappenDifferent Life Author:Natalia Vodianova
“The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location of energy and other mineral resources are acute. Population numbers continue to climb. The global environment shows signs of widespread deterioration. Both natural and social environments are increasingly vulnerable to catastrophic disturbances... There may, however, be a cheering challenge in the possibility that out of its struggle with these realities the human race may move a bit nearer to behaving as if it were indeed one family.” IfsHumansMayShowsRealityMovingPoliticalEnergyNationsSocialBitsNaturalChallengesPoorNumbersRaceStruggleRichEnvironmentGrowingEffectsPossibilityResourcesEnvironmentalPopulationVulnerableHuman RaceClimbsGapsCheerLocationRich And PoorDisturbanceMineralsDeteriorationSocial EnvironmentMineral Resources Author:Gilbert F. White
“It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts made by successive generations of men--the little bits of knowledge and experience carefully treasured up by them growing at length into a mighty pyramid.” MenHumansLittlesArtMadeFactsBitsSecretGrowingGenerationsLittle BitPursuitObservationLengthLittle ThingsBusiness SuccessAccumulationPyramidsSecret To SuccessHuman KnowledgeTreasuredKnowledge And Experience Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct
“Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.” PeopleCountryAbleBitsTalkingSituationGrowing UpGrowingMeetingsDeveloped Country Author:Bill Gates
“I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.” LittlesPersonsLightSpiritNightHouseBitsDarkWalksRoomsDarknessGrowing UpGrowingDoorsTaughtLittle BitCracked Author:Tony Dorsett
“I'm getting older and the performance onstage was definitely, it was a bit sexier, but it wasn't too much. I don't want to scare off my fans. At the same time my fans are growing up with me, and I don't want to go way over the top.” WayWantBitsGrowing UpToo MuchGrowingFansPerformancesScareGetting OldGetting OlderOver The Top Author:Demi Lovato
“I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn't mean that I'm less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It's kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.” ThinkingMeanLittlesPlayRunningKidsBitsSidesGrowing UpGrowingLittle BitDressesGirlyBarbieKids Growing Up Author:Adrianne Palicki
“My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.” NeedsWritingHardWould BeBitsEmotionGrowing UpGrowingAdviceSpares Author:Joanna Trollope
“I think the experience of getting an audience a little bit tense and shocking them with a jump scare, and then moving on it can be cheap and easy. The harder thing is to get them unnerved and disturbed in a growing way. That starts off easy and increases all the way through the picture.” ThinkingWayLittlesMovingEasyBitsAudienceGrowingLittle BitIncreaseHarderScareShockingTenseDisturbed Author:C. Robert Cargill
“You are [as an actor] aware that you don't want to repeat stuff, but you want to use what has worked. But you don't want to be accused of just going over the old thing, you know? You want it to start growing a little bit more.” KnowsWantLittlesUseActorsStuffBitsGrowingLittle BitRepeatsAccusedOld Things Author:Jude Law
“There is a growing awareness that we're losing our technological competitive edge. I think there's an awareness that we're losing our leadership, and that maybe our self image over the past several decades has been a little bit delusional.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensSelfPastBitsGrowingAwarenessLittle BitLosingEdgesDecadesTechnologicalOver The PastDelusional Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Growing up, I was the weird, theatrical kid who always tried to make people be in my plays. I've always loved comedy, but when it came time to figure out what I was going to go to school for, my parents were like, "Acting?! I don't think so. No." It took me a while to get the courage to pursue it. I had to do it in secret for a little bit, and then when I got married and was out on my own, I went for it.” PeopleThinkingLittlesPlayKidsSchoolBitsParentMy OwnActingSecretGrowing UpComedyGrowingFiguresMarriedLittle BitPursueTheatrical Author:Wendi McLendon-Covey
“I just think of interesting roles to play. I guess that I have matured, I guess growing up and becoming a man, your taste in characters changes and I think I have become more interested in active characters as I have become less contemplative in my personal life. Things have become a little bit more interesting in the doing these days and less interesting in the thinking about the doing.” ThinkingMenLittlesPlayCharacterBitsInterestingRolesGrowing UpGrowingBecomingTasteLittle BitActiveThese DaysPersonal LifeContemplativeMaturedBecoming A ManCharacter Change Author:Josh Hartnett
“Hoodie was just a nickname I had growing up and I just wanted to have a name that would stick in peoples' minds and be a little bit funny and representative of who I am.” MindLittlesWantedNamesBitsGrowing UpGrowingLittle BitSticksWho I AmRepresentativesNicknames Author:Hoodie Allen