“I've noticed that the magic getting along with someone isn't really magic. If you break it down, you can see how it happens. You say something a bit off-center and see if they react. If they get it, they push it a bit further. Then it's your turn again. And theirs. And so on, until it's banter. Once it's banter, it's friendship.” IfsHappensTurnsBitsBreakMagicBanterGetting Along Author:Meg Rosoff
“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 best books, they don’t talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you’d always thought about, but you didn’t think anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly you’re a little bit less alone in the world. You’re part of this cosmic community of people who’ve thought about this thing, whatever it happens to be.” PeopleThinkingWorldLittlesBookHappensBitsCommunityLittle BitCosmic Author:Tommy Wallach
“Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.” PeopleHappensBitsMiddleWorstWorst ThingsConfusing Author:Chris Martin
“All the best bits of a film happen when I'm looking down at my phone. Life, is similar.” HappensFilmLife IsBitsPhonesAll The BestLooking Down Author:Craig Stone
“I'm getting older, and it happens. You don't care as much. I don't care about too much anymore. I've got to think about that a little bit.” ThinkingLittlesHappensCareBitsToo MuchLittle BitDon't CareI Don't CareGetting OldGetting Older Author:Adam Sandler
“I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.” WantWritingDifferentWholeHappensFilmSpeakBitsIndustryRight NowEntertainmentRoutesEntertainment IndustryChameleon Author:David Boreanaz
“We're just a fragile team right now. It seems like when we have a little bit of adversity, when something goes wrong, you can feel it on the bench, it kind of sinks. Unless we get a goal or something really positive happens, it's tough. I think falling out of the playoff race takes the wind out of your sails for sure.” ThinkingFeelsKindLittlesSeemsHappensFallBitsGoalRaceTeamWindRight NowLittle BitToughAdversityFragileSailBenchesPlayoffsReally Positive Author:Wes Walz
“I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line (marrying Nate with minimal motivation in season three) became a little bit of a diversion - and that happens. It happens in every show.” PeopleThinkingYearsLittlesStoriesShowsHappensLastsMotivationThreeBitsLinesLittle BitSeasonsLast YearImpatienceMarryingDiversion Author:Chris Albrecht
“Kate Winslet also happens to be one of my close friends who I goof off with like crazy. It was a reunion of two people who, I guess, are a little bit older, a tiny bit wiser but ultimately were the same as they were when they were 21.” PeopleLittlesTwoHappensBitsCrazyLittle BitTinyWiserKateReunionClose FriendsGoofs Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was the place where everyone wanted to go. Empires wanted to be able to say that they were the first to put a climber on top of Everest. So when a tragedy happens up on that mountain, I think it has a global resonance. Everybody's heard of Everest. Everybody knows what Everest is and what it means, and the significance.” ThinkingKnowsFirstsMeanLittlesHappensAbleWantedBitsImaginationHeardSpecialCenturyMoonMountainLittle BitTragedyEmpiresSignificanceResonanceEverestSpecial PlacesClimbers Author:Richard Engel
“Like everyone, there are times when I just dont feel like exercising. When that happens, Im a bit more careful with my diet. But on days I really want a treat, like chocolate, I work out a little harder. I dont believe in beating myself up for not being good.” WantFeelsBelieveLittlesHappensBitsExerciseTreatsHarderCarefulWork OutBe GoodDietsChocolate Author:Judy Reyes
“I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is the thinnest rind on the world of creation. Most of a writer's life is just work. It happens to be a kind of work that the writer finds fulfilling in the same way that a watchmaker can happily spend countless hours fiddling over the tiny cogs and bits of wire. ... I think the people who end up being writers are people who don't get bored doing that kind of tight focus in small areas.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWritingKindEndsHardHappensLife IsBitsHoursFocusMagicCreationHard WorkInvolvedAreasAppreciateTinyBoredWorking ItFulfillingWireCogs Author:Diane Ackerman
“I think the main thing is trying to be fair, sometimes there has to be a little bit of discipline, maybe even punishment involved in trying to make your child understand, learn from bad experiences and make sure they don't happen again.” ThinkingTryingChildrenLittlesSometimesHappensBitsDisciplineInvolvedLittle BitFairsOur ChildrenPunishmentYour ChildrenBad Experiences Author:Archie Manning
“I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.” IfsThinkingWritingMayLittlesHappensBitsLosesInterestingWrittenHabitCircumstancesReflectionIsolationAllowingConsolationDiariesMost InterestingDesolationMonologuesBeing MyselfEjaculation Author:Alice James
“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?” HumansMomentsHappensArtistCertainBitsSecretDoubtHuman NatureLuckBlowSupremePsychologicalPhrasesNo DoubtNow And ThenQuotationsCunningHammersPinsBorrowedEmulateTemptingCondiments Author:Ethel Smyth
“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.” ThinkingIdeasHappensBitsOne ThingPhotographer Author:Courtney Barnett
“When people are too present, too familiar or too in our face, something happens to us psychologically. We begin to tune them out, we begin to get sick of them, we begin to know them so well and become so familiar with who they are that we loose a bit of respect for them. You pass a certain threshold with the fact that you're too present in their lives, too much in their face and once that threshold is passed you're never going to repair it they have lost a certain respect for you.” PeopleKnowsWellsFactsHappensFacesCertainLostBitsToo MuchSickThings HappenFamiliarTunesThreshold Author:Robert Greene
“I'm sure favorite moments in movies are things that just happen accidentally when the camera is there. You have to do all the homework to get yourself into the period, the costumes, the style, the voice, the hairdo or whatever it is, but once you've done all that work, you have to kind of let it go and just be there. If you're always thinking about it, it just looks a bit over-thought.” IfsThinkingLooksKindDoneMomentsHappensBitsVoiceStylePeriodsCamerasCostumesLet It GoHomeworkAlways ThinkingHairdos Author:Tom Hiddleston
“Do what boxers do, sway with the punches. Don't resist. If any of what happens at work gets to you, just let it. You won't be able to shut it out in the long term anyway. Take it bit by bit, release it like a dam, don't let it collect until the wall develops cracks.” IfsLongHappensAbleBitsTermWallReleaseLong TermCracksBoxersDams Author:Jo Nesbo
“I've been moving a little to the music while I worked ...and then I realize I am actually dancing. It feels wonderful, though I can feel how stiff my muscles are, how rigidly I've been holding myself...Mostly I've been moving cautiously, numbly, steeled because I know, at any moment, I may be ambushed by overwhelming grief. You never know when it's coming, the word or gesture or bit of memory that dissolved you entirely...It happens every day at first, then not for a day or two, then there's a week when grief washes in every morning, every afternoon.” KnowsFeelsFirstsMayLittlesI CanTwoMomentsHappensMovingBitsRealizingMemoriesGriefMorningWonderfulWeekDancingMusclesOverwhelmingAfternoonGesturesEvery Morning Author:Mark Doty
“Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart.” PeopleHeartLittlesSometimesEnoughHappensGirlLeftBitsBornLittle BitBaby GirlMom And Daughter Author:Alan Beck
“I was called a dance prodigy since I was young. A prodigy is like a genius. But I'm not a genius. It's just that what I do a little bit better than others, and that happens to be dancing.” LittlesHappensYoungBitsGeniusLittle BitDancingProdigies Author:Min
“I try my jokes onstage. The only way to really find out if something is going to work is to try it on stage, and I try to be careful and bookend something new with a strong bit before and a strong bit afterwards. But it's fun to run on virgin snow. I like that feeling onstage of creating new footprints and not knowing what's going to happen.” IfsWayTryingFeelingsHappensRunningStrongFunBitsKnowingStageCreatingJokesCarefulSnowSomething NewBe CarefulNot KnowingVirginsGoing To WorkFootprintBookends Author:Brian Regan
“Only comedies can get you that engaged in a movie, dramas people just sort of sit there and eat their popcorn and nothing really happens, they might cry a little bit, but that's it. Horror movies are talking at the screen, guys are elbowing each other, laughing at each other because they got scared. That's the beauty of a horror movie.” PeopleLittlesMightHappensGuyBitsTalkingLaughingComedyCryDramaHorrorLittle BitScaredScreensEngagedPopcorn Author:Bruce Campbell
“I don't want to paint myself as some villain - I was never a bad guy doing horrible things, but I got too caught up in wanting a very specific thing to happen to the band. Ultimately, I had to find the ability in myself to get over that and stop being so stringent and learn to laugh a little bit more.” WantLittlesHappensGuyBitsAbilityLaughingBandLittle BitPaintCaughtHorribleVillainGet OverCaught UpBad GuysHorrible Things Author:Andy Biersack
“I'm a bit of a weird creature... I'm self taught and went to a regular film school, not art school, and I think it's unusual for somebody to approach animation from that angle. In a sense I've sometimes consclassered myself more of a filmmaker who just happens to animate.” ThinkingArtSelfSometimesHappensSchoolFilmBitsTaughtCreaturesApproachFilmmakerUnusualAngleAnimationArt SchoolFilm SchoolSelf Taught Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“Most people who work with me can tell you I'm a bit of a pessimist about business stuff. Not because I don't believe in what I'm doing, I just don't like feeling presumptuous. Like, 'This is what's going to happen!' Honestly, I don't know what will happen.” PeopleKnowsBelieveFeelingsHappensStuffBitsDon't BelieveHonestlyPessimistPresumptuous Author:Ben Rector