“I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don't really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it's a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you're using a different piece of equipment.” ThinkingDifferentAbleFacesNamesBitsCasesPiecesPleasePagesMagazinesEquipmentComes And Goes Author:Geddy Lee
“A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names we still use today, like ‘Robert’, and in some case I tweaked them a little bit. I made ‘Edward’ into ‘Eddard’. If you look back at medieval times, no one knew how to spell their own names. There are a lot of variations that we’ve lost.” IfsLooksLittlesMadeStillsUseTodayWantedNamesLostBitsDifficultCasesFantasyToo MuchLittle BitEnglandSpellsVariationMedievalFlavourMedieval Times Author:George R. R. Martin
“Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.” KnowsNamesLostBitsNobleTeethAdversariesTreason Book:The First Quarto of King Lear Source: The First Quarto of King Lear
“We [ with Andy Samberg] knew each other for the last few years, our names are similar, our looks are a little bit similar, and our backgrounds are similar. The Judaism is quite similar.” YearsLooksLittlesLastsNamesBitsLittle BitBackgroundsJudaism Author:Adam Sandler
“Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your favorite candy. In the end, all you get is a few words.” LittlesEndsNamesBitsSpaceNumbersSecretLittle BitMeaninglessCandyCreepsFew WordsTombstoneYour FavoriteSecret LoveChisels Book:Kiss Me or Die: A Psychological Thriller Source: Kiss Me or Die: A Psychological Thriller
“We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale. Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?"” MenDoeNamesBitsWhiteNumbersBoysImagineFishesLocalsMinistersSettlingShopsPrimeCoatsPrime MinisterChipsIncidentsFetchFish And ChipsLagerWhite Coat Author:Alan Bennett
“The decay of the late, great country of South Africa is beginning to become apparent. The name of the Transvaal has been officially changed to 'Gauteng.' (One of our friends has suggested that in view of this its inhabitants in the future should be referred to as Oranggautengs.) ... And now there is a move afoot to wreck the Kruger National Park, one of the wonders of the world, on the notion that a good bit of its land was 'taken from the blacks.' This idea is somewhat akin to giving Yellowstone Park back to the Blackfeet.” WorldGivingShouldHas BeensIdeasCountryMovingNamesBitsViewsWonderTakenLandChangedLateSouthNotionParksDecaySouth AfricaWrecksGreat CountryNational ParksWonder Of The WorldYellowstone Author:Jeff Cooper
“I have actually programmed a fair bit in Perl, like I have C++ code published with my name on it. Other things I have tried and have no intention to do again if I can at all avoid it include smoking, getting drunk enough to puke and waste the whole next day with hang-over, breaking a leg in a violent car crash, getting mugged in New York City, or travel with Aeroflot.” IfsI CanEnoughWholeNextNamesBitsCitiesCarNew YorkWasteFairsIntentionLegsViolentDrunkCodeSmokingNew York CityCrashNext DayGetting DrunkPukeCar CrashPerlHang Over Author:Erik Naggum
“What demon is our god? What name subsumes That act external to our sleeping selves? Not pleasure - it is much too broad and narrow, - Not sex, not for the moment love, but pride, And not in prowess, but pride undefined, Autonomous in its unthought demands, A bit of vanity, but mostly pride.” SelfMomentsNamesSexBitsSleepPleasurePrideDemandVanityDemonBroadsAutonomousProwessUndefined Author:J. V. Cunningham
“Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of Italian political life he is ready upon cold request to provide an inquiry brief refined in the most minute details is a nice comfort. But also a bit unsettling. The day I asked him if in that archive, into which no one is allowed to stick their nose, there were a brief with my name on it, Marco changed the subject.” IfsPoliticalActorsNamesBitsNiceMinutesSubjectsChangedReadyArmsColdComfortDirectorsSticksCastsDetailsNewspapersNosesExtrasItalianInquiryRequestRefinedMarcosArchivesPolitical Life Author:Indro Montanelli
“EA called my agency and made us an offer and I was really enthusiastic about this, really excited to do it. I had Need for Speed: Underground already, the first one. And I'm a bit of a gamer, and definitely car enthusiast, so I've done a lot of things to my cars that people can do in this game. Everything from after-market kits to styling them, exteriorly with wheels, rims, and kits. You name it I have some fun doin' that.” PeopleNeedsFirstsMadeDoneGamesNamesFunBitsCan DoCarOffersExcitedSpeedAgencyWheelsEnthusiasticGamerRims Author:Brooke Burke
“Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its slither, it is gloriously onomatopoetic.” GivingPurposeNamesSpeakBitsCitiesChicagoSpit Book:Locations Source: Locations
“I would want my children to grow up and do what they wish to in a field that they choose to step in. They should not have to use the shadow of their father's name. I think that is a bit of a downer for a movie star's children.” ThinkingWantShouldChildrenUseFatherNamesWishStarsGrowsBitsStepsGrowing UpFieldsShadowMy ChildrenMovie StarDowners Author:Shahrukh Khan
“I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.” PeopleThinkingLittlesSometimesNamesBitsSoundLittle Bit Author:Joan Smalls
“I have a cheese-shredder at home, which is its positive name. They don't call it by its negative name, which is sponge-ruiner. Because I wanted to clean it, but now I have little bits of sponge that would melt easily over tortilla chips.” LittlesHomeHumorWantedFunnyNamesBitsLittle BitNegativeCleanCheeseChipsSpongesTortillas Author:Mitch Hedberg
“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
“I think a lot of people haven't even seen my videos but just hearing my name are like "Oh, that's that dumb Internet thing." And I'm definitely trying to shake that a little bit.” PeopleThinkingTryingLittlesNamesBitsHavensInternetLittle BitHearingVideoDumbShakes Author:Shane Dawson
“I am a student of comparative religion, but whatever I read, you scratch a little bit and underneath is the oneness. You call it different names, yes, according to the time, according to the place, according to the people, but it is all one.” PeopleLittlesDifferentNamesBitsStudentsLittle BitOnenessScratchesComparative ReligionDifferent Names Author:Irina Tweedie
“I couldn't decide on a title for my first novel and my editor came up with Everything Good Will Come. After that, I thought I should name my own books.A Bit of Difference seems just right.” ShouldFirstsBookSeemsNamesBitsDifferencesMy OwnNovelTitlesEditorsGood Will Author:Sefi Atta