“Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter - for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had - first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine.” IfsFirstsMatterDreamCareSchoolTogetherEvilStarsBitsWhitePerfectBehindsSunTroubleInfluenceFineFitMoonSpringHumorousMachinesGreenSavedAtomsGearsGloomIndustriousSpatsVatAntimatter Book:The Cyberiad Source: The Cyberiad
“I've done roles before where I've wanted to be buff and sort of fit or whatever. And I like to try and be a little bit fit because there's usually one scene in a movie where you've got to run, which means you've got to run for about five hours nonstop. So, for me, it's just worthwhile being fit because doing a movie can be kind of grueling for six, seven, eight weeks. Or 12 weeks.” TryingKindMeanLittlesDoneRunningWantedBitsHoursRolesFiveWeekFitSceneSixLittle BitSevenEightBe KindWorthwhile Author:Guy Pearce
“I felt like, in the recent past, people have been apologizing for Superman, a little bit, for his costume, for his origins, and for the way he fits into society.” PeopleWayLittlesHas BeensPastFeltBitsFitLittle BitApologizingCostumesRecent Past Author:Zack Snyder
“One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist go just a little bit crazy. How does it all fit together? Is there a single, overarching design to the cosmos? And if we find it, will we glimpse the mind of God?” IfsWorldMindLittlesDoeEnoughTogetherUniverseForceBitsFourCrazyDesignFitLittle BitBillionsComplexityCosmosOur WorldGlimpseGalaxyPrecision Author:Morgan Freeman
“Its obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. Its vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our carbon footprint, has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.” PeopleFeelsBelieveKindEarthBitsNiceMankindPlanetsFitImpactObviousFeel GoodVanityNonsenseCarbonOur PlanetFootprintGrotesqueNice PeopleCarbon Footprint Author:Charles Saatchi
“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.” IfsWellsHas BeensGovernmentPastLyingBitsDealsModernMankindFitBedScientistDressesNuclearOperationsStretchingStrideDrasticPainlessApplied ScienceAmputationTotalitarian Government Author:Aldous Huxley
“When my life does get frantic and busy, there's always time to fit something in, even if it means getting up 15 minutes earlier. I get out of bed, do a few Asanas and then do a little bit of mediation. I just structure it into the day. It's really, really simple.” IfsMeanLittlesDoeBitsSimpleMinutesFitBedLittle BitStructureBusyAsanaMediationFrantic Author:Jayne Middlemiss
“Quite often on a movie like Total Recall you have this training period of two or three months where, like on the first 'Underworld' I was doing gymnastics and trampolining and all this stuff which I don't do in the movie necessarily, but mentally it helps. You come home and you go: 'Well, I've done all that. I must be an action star now!' So it helps you focus a little bit and gets you fit.” FirstsWellsLittlesTwoDoneHelpingHomeActionThreeStarsStuffBitsFocusMonthsPeriodsFitLittle BitTrainingComing HomeRecallsGymnasticsThree MonthsUnderworldTotal Recall Author:Colin Farrell
“I've dabbled in running around on stage, and at certain times it's nice to step away from the anchor of the piano and use a handheld microphone and connect with the audience, but I think my soul as a performer is just a little bit more connected to the instrument. To just sort of sit and sing - that feels like the most natural fit for me.” ThinkingFeelsLittlesSoulUseRunningCertainBitsNaturalStepsAudienceNiceStageFitLittle BitInstrumentsConnectedMy SoulPianoPerformersAnchorsMicrophones Author:Sara Bareilles
“Obviously, when I came to do the movie I knew that I was going to have to take my clothes off so I might have worked a little bit harder to keep myself fit. But I think that's the irony of it - you see all these fit and healthy people, and I'm not making any comments on it, but everybody deep down is a f**k up somewhere.” PeopleThinkingLittlesMightBitsFitHealthyLittle BitClothesHarderIronyCommentDeep Down Author:Daniel Craig
“And Supernatural, in fact, going there wasit felt like a place where I had to actually, um, learn to be kind of manly. I felt like I had to kind of change my, like, way of speaking for a little bit, just to kind of fit in, oddly enough. Which was weird.” WayKindLittlesEnoughFactsFeltBitsFitLittle BitBe KindManly Author:Ben Edlund
“I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people...I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in.” PeopleWayFeelsChildrenFactsFeltBitsFitMy WayPretendingIsolatedCoping Author:Keanu Reeves
“So remember, my meaning of discipline is not that of any Ten Commandments...Your discipline has to come from your very heart, it has to be your own-and there is a great difference. When somebody else gives you the discipline, it can never fit you; it will be like wearing somebody else's clothes. Either they will be too loose or too tight, and you will always feel a little bit silly in them.” GivingFeelsHeartLittlesRememberBitsDifferencesDisciplineFitTenLittle BitClothesSillyCommandmentsTen Commandments Author:Rajneesh
“I want to do a jean line for boys and girls that are sometimes too skinny to fit into jeans, or sometimes a little bit too husky to fit into some jeans.” WantLittlesSometimesGirlBitsLinesBoysFitLittle BitJeansSkinnyBoy And GirlHuskies Author:Mark Indelicato
“I haven't played EDC since 2011. Normally, my sound fits a little bit better in mixed festivals.” LittlesBitsSoundHavensFitLittle BitFestivals Author:Skrillex
“I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different. I really felt I didn't fit in. My dad was from the Caribbean, my mum was English, we lived in quite a white area but we were quite poor, but also quite brainy, and I was a really, really skinny child so I felt a bit awkward about all these things.” FeelsChildrenPersonsDifferentFeltBitsWhitePoorDadFitSingingAreasMy DadAwkwardMumSkinnyHave ConfidenceCaribbean Author:Corinne Bailey Rae
“Basically what I'm trying to say is that when you get down to the nitty gritty of song writing, it is very logical to a certain degree. It requires a bit of intuition as to how things can fit together elegantly.” WritingTryingTogetherCertainSongBitsFitDegreesIntuitionLogical Author:Vienna Teng
“I do notice that my songs fit all over the map, even in terms of the colloquialisms in them. The songs come out with their references intact, almost unheeded by me. It's like they existed somehow before they met me with their relationship to the tradition, and then they just end up coming through me at that moment because of my relationship to some certain kind of music that I've listened to in my life. I know that sounds a little bit woooey.” KnowsKindLittlesEndsMomentsCertainSongBitsSoundTermFitMetsLittle BitTraditionMapsThat Moment Author:Mirah
“I've always been a decent runner so I've never been massively unfit, but for this I've got stronger. I've got rid of a bit of podge and I'm just a bit leaner, which means that I'm just quicker at moving, I'm more agile and I recover much better as well. At the moment I feel ultra-fit and it's been an amazing change.” FeelsWellsMeanMomentsMovingBitsFitStrongerDecentRunnersUltras Author:Greg James
“There's a balance and I feel very, very strong and very, very fit at the moment. There's no - touch wood - niggles at the moment, there's nothing that's twinging or nothing that's too painful. Apart from a bit of chafing from the wetsuit!” FeelsMomentsStrongBitsBalanceFitPainfulWoodsVery StrongChafing Author:Greg James
“While I was drawn to the Renaissance, my first (unpublished) novels took place in modern times. When the subject of alchemy started creeping into my stories, an astute mentor observed that the bits about alchemy might fit better in another time frame. When I finally decided to weave the pieces about the medieval science into historical settings, a successful novel began to emerge. (And I dusted off that art history book, and put it to use once again.)” FirstsArtBookStoriesUseMightBitsNovelSuccessfulPiecesModernSubjectsFitDecidedHistoricalSettingSettingsMentorMedievalRenaissanceAlchemyArt HistoryHistory BooksModern TimesAnother TimeAstute Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“A lot of it is found in the editing room and part of that is due to some of the improvisational tactics we employ on set. Part of it is that the shot goes a little bit long and they end up coming down to fit time.” LittlesLongEndsFoundBitsRoomsFitLittle BitShotsDuesEditingTactics Author:Mark Duplass
“I was born in St. Louis and lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, before my family moved to Nigeria, where they're from. We lived there for three or four years and came back to the States when I was about ten. I realised that I'd gone from place to place not fitting in. The thing that helped me fit in when moving around and not having a ton of friends was that I could make art. That was the through-line.” YearsArtStatesMovingThreeBitsBornLinesGoneFourFitTenMy FamilyMovedFour YearsRealisedFittingNigeriaPittsburghNot Fitting Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“I think that I burnt myself out a little bit with my dancing because I did so much of it. I was exhausted so thought that I would try a different kind of performance and expression and acting seemed like a close fit; it was similar in some ways to dancing. My mum showed me some really good films and so I became interested in films and acting.” ThinkingWayTryingKindLittlesDifferentFilmBitsActingExpressionFitLittle BitPerformancesDancingDifferent KindsMumExhaustedGood Films Author:Mia Wasikowska
“Instead of hitting the treadmill six days a week, I try to spend as much time with my daughter and fit in a bit of cardio during the week. Although, running and playing around with my three-year-old keeps me pretty active as it is.” TryingYearsRunningThreeBitsWeekFitSixDaughterActiveMy DaughterThree YearsHittingTreadmillsCardioThree Year OldsPlaying Around Author:Christina Applegate
“When I moved to New York, I feel like a lot of things widened within my perspective and as I spend some time here - as everyone does when they're that age or a young person - [you] figure out your own ideals or figure out the way you fit into society a little bit more than you did before.” WayFeelsLittlesPersonsDoeAgeYoungBitsFiguresNew YorkPerspectiveFitLittle BitIdealsMoved Author:Morgan Saylor
“I had to go in and do the work of toning [invented "historical" bits] down in order to make them fit [in Lincoln in the Bardo]. It's like if you're an actor and you're always overacting, well, you're a bad actor. But if you're an actor who subdues yourself to the extent that's necessary, then you're really acting.” IfsWellsOrderActorsBitsActingFitHistorical Author:George Saunders
“I think in some ways, I would go back home, and I didn't really quite fit in and couldn't - didn't have a person to bounce those experiences off of. So I felt a little bit trapped within me, and it made me feel lonely because I really couldn't - the things that were exciting to me, I couldn't really share those with another kid and that other kid understand that.” ThinkingWayFeelsLittlesPersonsMadeHomeKidsFeltBitsShareFitLittle BitLonelyExcitingTrappedBack HomeBounceFeeling Lonely Author:Mahershala Ali
“Most Christians who've been around for a while have their Story in bits and pieces, but have never seen how powerful it really is when assembled as a whole. I want them to see how well it fits together and how it offers tremendous explanatory power regarding the world as we actually find it. I want them to see how it resolves the problem of evil, and why God's solution - the God/man Jesus - is the only solution.” MenWorldWantWellsWholeStoriesProblemChristianTogetherEvilJesusBitsPowerfulPiecesFitOffersSolutionsResolveBits And PiecesProblem Of Evil Author:Greg Koukl
“The idea of listening to a record that's in one generic style, it becomes quite boring after the third or fourth song, in my opinion. It just becomes a bit... when you've got the same arrangement on a song, your ears get tired. I come from a DJ background and it's about trying to put songs together that don't fit necessarily but you can get away with putting them next to each other. I think of myself as a punter and ask myself: what would I like to hear?” ThinkingTryingIdeasTogetherSongNextAsksBitsOpinionRecordsStyleListeningFitEarsThirdsTiredBoringBackgroundsGet AwayFourthArrangementsDjsGenericPunters Author:Dom Thomas
“Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.” IfsLittlesIdeasSometimesBitsFitLittle BitBoxesStudios Author:David Lynch
“There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are. You want one and I want one, but there isn't one. It comes in bits and pieces, and you stitch them together wherever they fit, and when you are done you hold yourself up, and still there are holes and you are a rag doll, invented, imperfect. And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.” WayWantStillsEndsDoneEnoughTogetherBitsPiecesHappenedFitWho You AreHolesExplanationRevelationsImperfectDollsRagsTidyStitchesBits And Pieces Author:Marya Hornbacher