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“I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.”

Knows Looks Persons Enough Hands Mother Water Taught Needed Fit Bowls Palms

Book:Incantation

Source: Incantation

“Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around; what I think was originally a verse ends up becoming the chorus, or what's an intro gets dropped as a hook, things get shifted around a lot.”

Thinking Ends Sometimes Becoming Fit Moved Tunes Verses Sections Puzzles Hook Chorus

Author:Gotye

“Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the linguistic ether singing a Siren song that's designed to crash the unsuspecting against the jagged rocks of pedantry.”

Thinking Sometimes Song Situation Rocks Fit Singing Definitions Irony Hanging Out Crash Sirens Pedantry Unsuspecting Siren Song

Author:Mike Duncan

“I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.”

Felt Fit Tough

Author:Missy Peregrym

“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views.”

Trying Facts Views Powerful Common One Thing Stupid Fit Very Powerful Very Stupid

Author:Tom Baker

“What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.”

People Knows Wells Important Soul Character Stories Interesting Fit Findings Dramatic Entertainers Captivating

Author:Mary Stuart Masterson

“To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.”

Needs Hands Light Fighting Evil Darkness Fit Activity

Author:Anthony de Mello

“I've seen so many beautiful curvy women gain success in hollywood and then wither into bobble headed stick figures in some grotesque attempt to fit a revolting hollywood trend. I like real women, not the broomsticks that Hollywood has been selling lately.”

Has Beens Real Beautiful Figures Fit Gains Hollywood Sticks Selling Trends Grotesque Curvy Real Women Broomsticks Curvy Women

Author:Matthew Gray Gubler

“I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.”

Wanted Fit Teenager Hopeless

Author:Anne Beatts

“I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.”

Thinking Knows World Want Needs Know How Fit Details Where We Came

Author:George Smoot

“Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.”

Ifs Years Done Play Feelings Used Felt Hours Behinds Creative Minutes Fit Tasks Crowds Granted Pushing Leisure Crushed

Book:Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958

Source: Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958

“Mad About You fit my sensibility the most of any show that I worked on, and as a result, it was really fun. It felt like a very natural fit.”

Shows Fun Felt Natural Results Fit Mad Sensibility

Author:Maria Semple

“Man is spiritual being -- a soul, in other words -- and that this soul takes on different bodies from life to life on earth to order at last to arrive at such perfect knowledge, through repeated experience, as to enable one to assume a body fit to be the dwelling-place of a Mahatma or perfected soul. Then, they say, that particular soul becomes a spiritual helper to mankind.”

Men Different Soul Body Earth Lasts Spiritual Order Perfect Mankind Particular Fit Assuming Dwelling Helpers Spiritual Beings Dwelling Place

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.”

Want Doe Hero Fit Concepts India Mythology Indian Greek Greek Mythology Vocabulary Greek Myth

Author:Devdutt Pattanaik

“I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages.”

Writing Trying Littles Results Fiction Materials Fit Packages Tidy Writing Short

Author:Susan Choi

“Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn’t fit this description.”

People Want Needs Helping Government Special Citizens Fit Waste Description Disability Fraud Helping People Elderly Good Citizen Basic Needs Special Needs People With Disabilities

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm.”

Ideas Problem Social Simple Deals Needed Fit India Entrepreneur Paradigm Simple Ideas

Author:Bill Drayton

“As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.”

Knows World Book Kids Know How Objects Fit Stores Newspapers Comic Department Unusual Bookstores Department Stores

Author:Ben Katchor

“If the shoe fits you're lucky.”

Ifs Modern Fit Lucky Shoes Modern Life If The Shoe Fits

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“Conventional opinions fit so comfortably into the dominant paradigm as to be seen not as opinions but as statements of fact, as 'the nature of things.' The very efficacy of opinion manipulation rests on the fact that we do not know we are being manipulated. The most insidious forms of oppression are those that so insinuate themselves into our communication universe and the recesses of our minds that we do not even realize they are acting upon us.”

Knows Mind Facts Form Political Universe Realizing Acting Opinion Communication Fit Statements Oppression Manipulation Conventional Dominant Paradigm Insidious Efficacy Recess

Book:The Culture Struggle

Source: The Culture Struggle

“The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.”

Writing Ideas Whole Seems Poetry Literature Understanding Sound Novel Students Fit Sonnet Daft

Author:Nicholas Royle

“I want upon death to be buried, just like in the old days, where I decompose by the action of microorganisms, and I am dined upon by any form of creeping animal or root system that sees fit to do so.... I will have recycled back to the universe at least some of the energy that I have taken from it. And in so doing, at the conclusion of my scientific adventures, I will have come closer to the heavens than to Earth.”

Want Action Earth Form Universe Energy Heaven Animal Taken Adventure Fit Roots Conclusion Buried Extinction Want U Old Days Recycled Microorganisms

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The greatest players fit with the team. They play within the team's style, rather than asking the team to change its style.”

Play Player Team Style Fit Asking

Author:Patrick Ewing

“You don't have to go out there and fit the mold of what a quarterback is supposed to be. Make your own mold and do the best at each role. If you can run with the best and throw with the best, you can be the best quarterback in your own version of the position.”

Ifs Running Roles Position Fit Versions Supposed To Be Being The Best Do The Best Mold Quarterback

Author:Robert Griffin III

“Given the huge number Xbox owners and how many of them love gaming spectatorship, its a natural fit to bring the Twitch experience to the 360.”

Given Natural Numbers Huge Fit Owners Gaming Huge Numbers Xbox

Author:Emmett Shear

“CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.”

Thinking Trying Looks Self Use Order Girl Common Company Fit Behavior Asking Raises Ceo Mold Entitlement Dose Trying To Change

Author:Adora Svitak

“I would like whispering with someone who is like me. But no one is.I think it is because my sizzle doesn't match anyone else's. I want something to happen so bad that it sizzles inside of me. It never stops, but it also never fits any of the choices presented.”

Thinking Want Happens Choices Fit Like Me Want Something Whispering

Book:The Gap Year

Source: The Gap Year

“He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.”

Thinking Art Soul Doors Poet Fit Madness Senses Muse Beaten Sober Hollow Madmen Knocking

Author:Plato

“All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for any other occupation, until they are able to read English writing well.”

Men Writing Wells Long Enough Able Education Rich Youth Fit England Occupation Free Man Writing Well English Writing

Author:Alfred the Great

“We use up words like 'spiritual' so fast in this culture. Twenty years ago spiritual had a distinct meaning. But now there's a lot of jack-off thinkers who just love to talk about the spiritual. And there is a lot of bogus - is bogosity a word? It should be - a lot of bogosity in these spiritual seekers. So you have to find another way to express it. I just call it 'how I fit'.”

Way Should Years Use Spiritual Culture Atheism Fit Years Ago Twenties Positive Atheism Thinker Another Way Seekers

Author:George Carlin

“Climbing is a full-body sport from your fingers to your toes, but at the same time, it's like a dance on the rock. It's about being strong and fit but also graceful and elegant and efficient on the rock.”

Body Strong Sports Rocks Fit Fingers Climbing Efficient Toes Elegant

Author:Chris Sharma

“I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.”

Seems Guy Tvs Fit Sitcom

Author:Dave Attell

“I think that the Internet is our most profound and beautiful achievement. It is magnificent. We have the Internet as a layer of our thinking that doesn't control us, we control it, yet we don't have to be aware of it. It will be like a suit that really fits well.”

Thinking Wells Beautiful Internet Fit Achievement Profound Suits Layers Magnificent

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“You should make your diet one that best fits you and how you feel. Listen to your body. The most important thing is to exercise, drink lots of water, and take really good care of yourself.”

Feels Should Important Body Care Water Fit Exercise Drink Important Things Your Body Diets How You Feel

Author:Lea Michele

“Essence of newspaper is the large size. You are a reader you're an eagle flying over the desert, you're scanning. You see the rabbit and you zoom down and you grab it. That just happens naturally in a size that fits very well with how the human body works. Got to have a large display and it has to be portable.”

Humans Wells Body Happens Reader Fit Essence Down And Size Newspapers Flying Desert Display Human Body Rabbits Eagles Zoom Scanning Body Work

Author:Russ Wilcox

“The fit of jeans can be worlds apart from brand to brand. If you can find the right fit, skinny jeans can be very flattering.”

Ifs World Fit Brands Jeans Skinny Flattering Worlds Apart Skinny Jeans

Author:Tim Gunn

“The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to be. For me, I'm really protective of that. I'm not going to write something because I feel like it fits here or it fits there - I just want to write music that feels good to me.”

Want Feels Writing Song Fun Creative Fit Feel Good Protective Fun Things

Author:Kelsea Ballerini

“The main thing with triathlon is you've got to be as fit as you can. I train all year round.”

Years Fit Train Rounds Triathlon

Author:Alistair Brownlee

“I train for about 30 hours a week. That's at least four hours every day. I swim at seven most mornings. It's got to be your life. You've got to fit everything around it. If that's all you know and it's what you love to do then it's got loads of positives as well.”

Ifs Knows Wells Hours Morning Four Week Fit Train Seven Swim Load What You Love

Author:Alistair Brownlee

“You need to enjoy yourself and just get into the routine of keeping fit and enjoying being active. That's always easier once you've made friends in the sport.”

Needs Made Sports Enjoy Fit Easier Active Routine Enjoy Yourself

Author:Alistair Brownlee

“My teachers used to tell me you need to learn to adjust to fit the situation. Don't just do what you've always done because it might not always work.”

Needs Done Might Used Situation Teacher Fit

Author:Buck Brannaman

“I have always felt that perhaps women have sometimes almost embraced the same values as men, and the same character as men, because they are in the men's world, and they are trying to fit into a system that men have created. And maybe in truth when there is a critical mass of women who play that role in governments, then we will see whether women can really manage power in a way that is less destructive than the way that men have used power.”

Men World Way Trying Sometimes Play Character Government Used Values Felt Roles He Man Fit Mass Critical Manage Destructive Critical Mass Trying To Fit In

Author:Wangari Maathai

“Sometimes you have to wait for the right deal. They all seem good, at least at first, and they may make you some quick money. But when the right deal comes, and it fits into your [overall] plan, it's just overwhelming success. Sometimes, with the long-term deals, you have to take a risk if you're going to get a reward. It's exactly like fighting. Sometimes you have to take chances to get that huge win.”

Ifs Firsts May Long Sometimes Seems Fighting Winning Waiting Term Chance Deals Plans Risk Huge Fit Rewards Long Term Overwhelming Take A Chance

Author:Mike Tyson

“Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.”

Humans Able Laughing Conditions Human Nature Fit Laughter Laughed Peculiar Human Condition

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.”

Men Want Giving War Feet Birth Fit Men And Women Dance

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The point of the dragonfly's terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows,is not that it all fits together like clockwork--for it doesn'tbut that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, finged tangle. Freedom is the world's water and weather, the world's nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator loves pizzazz.”

“You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can sustain it, God is on your side and everything comes easily and even the waiters smile.”

Long Song Sound Sides Perfect Particular Fit Tempo Your Side Waiter Noodles Perfect Fit

Book:Essays in Disguise

Source: Essays in Disguise

“To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.”

People Thinking Humans May Use Seems Individual Language Liberty Fit Abuse Good Things Someday Indispensable Thorough Use And Abuse

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that will be just too bad for mankind. There will have to be some stretching and a bit of amputation—the same sort of stretching and amputations as have been going on ever since applied science really got going into its stride, only this time they will be a good deal more drastic than in the past. These far from painless operations will be directed by highly centralized totalitarian governments.”

“Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.”

Should Ideas Fit Embrace Sentences Episodes Sequence Fullness Harmonious Paragraph Carriages Railway Coupling

Book:My Early Life: 1874-1904

Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904

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