“What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.” WantFeelsLittlesPersonsTurnsBitsBalanceLittle BitOkay Author:Zoe Saldana
“If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.” IfsLittlesTwoMomentsTurnsBitsLinesHabitScriptsBad HabitsLittle Moments Author:Rebel Wilson
“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've got a couple of years until I turn pro so I guess within that period hopefully I'll be able to get a little bit better.” YearsLittlesAbleTurnsBitsCouplePeriodsLittle BitHopefully Author:Lydia Ko
“It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.” IfsTurnsUniverseBitsTinyVolumeSymphonyTuning Author:Benjamin Zander
“We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.” PeopleKnowsDifferentJobsTurnsLiteratureBitsCompanyHeardInternetNewsAssumingRadioEveningCablesTurn-on Author:Bob Schieffer
“The effect of the great and sudden change of altitude made itself felt at once; when I wanted to turn round in my bag, I had to do it a bit at a time, so as not to get out of breath.” MadeWantedTurnsFeltBitsEffectsBreathsRoundsBagsSudden Change Book:The South Pole Source: The South Pole
“My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of gift and when it came time to try to find a publisher I had a little bit of an "in" because I had his agent I could turn to, to at least read my initial offerings when I was about 20. But the only problem was that they were just awful, they were just terrible stories and my agent, who ended up being my agent, was very, very sweet about it, but it took about four years until I actually had something worth trying to sell.” WritingTryingYearsLittlesStoriesProblemTurnsReadingFatherBitsFourSweetGrewTerribleLittle BitGrew UpSellsAwfulAgentsFour YearsOfferingPublishersInitialsWriting And ReadingVery Sweet Author:Anne Lamott
“Prosperity and penury do not turn on gyno-centric and gay matters. But leftist statists and libertarians of the left place these wedge issues at the forefront of the fight for freedom. [...] Every bit as bad as liberals, "libertarian" political operators are prepared to shed political blood over any imagined sign of bigotry.” MatterPoliticalTurnsFightingLeftBitsIssuesBloodGayPreparedProsperityLibertarianBigotryShedTurn-onLeftistsOperatorsWedgesFighting For Freedom Author:Ilana Mercer
“With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?” IfsWorldYearsMindHumansHeartLittlesUseBodyEyeTurnsGrowsBitsSpaceBrainAliveMagicExperimentsFamiliarBrutalSparesPersuasionBizarreBellyLimbsAbnormalFamiliar Things Book:The Age of Miracles: A Novel Source: The Age of Miracles: A Novel
“It's an appreciation for life generally, every bit of life, the smallest creature that lives in the intestines of termites that make termite life possible - to the leaves that turn out oxygen and grab carbon dioxide and with water make simple sugars that feed much of the world. I mean, these are everyday miracles.” WorldMeanTurnsBitsWaterSimpleCreaturesMiracleEverydayAppreciationSugarSmallestCarbonOxygenCarbon DioxideIntestines Author:Sylvia Earle
“Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability.” ThinkingFeelsKindLittlesSelfFacesTurnsBitsWorstLittle BitConsciousCamerasVulnerableVulnerabilitySelf Conscious Author:Jason Mraz
“The weird thing about metal fans is we're all so maladjusted in a lot of ways. We're individualistic and opinionated and severe in our personalities - sometimes we really turn each other off. A little bit of a metal fan goes a long way.” WayLittlesLongSometimesTurnsBitsFansPersonalityLittle BitMetalsSevereLong WayWeird ThingsOpinionatedIndividualisticMetal Fans Author:Corey Taylor
“One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.” IfsFirstsFormTurnsBitsEnvironmentChangedPaperUniversityBonesI RealizedFatsCellsStemPapersWisconsinStem CellWisconsin Weather Author:Bruce H. Lipton
“On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.” LittlesTodayGuyTurnsWishBitsSportsChanceCuttingLittle BitAthleteClock Author:Eric Heiden
“I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing, cooking, welding, auto-shop. All these things you can turn into careers. How can you get interested in these careers if you don't try them on a little bit?” IfsThinkingTryingLittlesArtDoneSchoolTurnsStuffBitsCareersTakenWorstLittle BitCookingShopsWorst ThingsSewingArt MusicWoodworkingWelding Author:Temple Grandin
“Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.” PeopleIfsMenTryingStillsMightTurnsBitsPathPersonalityLetting GoArgumentDirectBallsGesturesAlleysBowlingBowling Alleys Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“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
“I remember how difficult it was to perform certain operations on gelatine prints. A few weeks ago I asked my gelatine printer at Picto, "Can you make just the shadows a little bit brighter?" He gave me a very strange look because in Photoshop you just turn a button, and we're used to that now, but it is totally impossible in gelatine silver printing.” LooksLittlesRememberUsedCertainTurnsBitsDifficultImpossibleWeekStrangeLittle BitShadowOperationsSilverPrintButtonsBrighterPrintingPrinterPhotoshop Author:Peter Lindbergh