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“I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.”

Littles I Can Ideas House Building Habit Sells Architecture Supposed To Be Hawaii Colorado

Author:Trey Parker

“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”

Source: My American Journey

“I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.”

Littles Night Habit Bed Checks Odd Little Things Every Night

Author:Tori Spelling

“I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.”

Littles I Can Reading Loss Habit Paper Letters Tiny Plastic Cookies Notebook Manuscripts Archives Reading Habits Disk

Author:Paul Theroux

“You could say that Elphaba brought us together,' said Boq softly. 'I'm closer to her and so I'm closer to you.' Galinda seemed to give up. She leaned her head back on the velvet cushions of the swing and said, 'Boq, you know despite myself I think you're a little sweet. You're a little sweet and you're a little charming and you're a little maddening and you're a little habit-forming.' Boq held his breath. But you're little!' she concluded. 'You're a Munchkin, for god's sake!' He kissed her, he kissed her, he kissed her, little by little by little.”

Thinking Knows Giving Littles Said Together Sweet Habit Giving Up Breaths Sake Despite Swings Charming Velvet Cushions Elphaba

Book:The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

Source: The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

“You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Children Littles Ends Sometimes Whole Home Might Together Used Mother Poor Morning Seeing Stupid Habit Letters Tired Foolish Spells Instruction Torment

Book:Northanger Abbey (illustrated)

Source: Northanger Abbey (illustrated)

“It’s funny—when people call you “shy,” they usually smile. Like it’s cute, some funny little habit you’ll grow out of when you’re older, like the gaps in your grin when your baby teeth fall out. If they knew how it felt—really being shy, not just unsure at first—they wouldn’t smile. Not if they knew how the feeling knots up your stomach or makes your palms sweat or robs you of the ability to say anything that makes sense. It’s not cute at all.”

People Ifs Firsts Littles Feelings Fall Grows Felt Ability Baby Habit Teeth Make Sense Cute Shy Gaps Stomach Sweat Say Anything Palms Knots Unsure Being Shy Baby Teeth

Author:Claudia Gray

“Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father, whom my mother always critized for his cigarette habit and who always shouted back that she should feel guilty that he didn't let my mother speak her mind. Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own. This was like my Auntie An-mei. Too much water and you flowed in too many different directions. like myself.”

People Feels Should Mind Littles Persons Made Ideas Different Mother Father Speak Water Fire Five Too Much Habit Elements Woods Guilty Temper Cigarette Bent Different Directions Bad Temper Auntie

Author:Amy Tan

“It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.”

Littles Said Father Christ Minutes Regret Habit Wheels Acquire Worn Idle You Will Regret

Book:FAULKNER READER

Source: FAULKNER READER

“She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, one from this direction, another form behind, more and more, until his looks, his character, his soul would have eroded away . . . I was afraid that some unseen speck of truth would fly into my eye, blur what I was seeing and transform him from the divine man I thought he was into someone quite mundane, mortally wounded with tiresome habits and irritating imperfections.”

Men Firsts Looks Littles Soul Character Would Be Eye Form Behinds Pieces Seeing Divine Habit Quiet Sand Imperfection Wounded Unseen Mundane Blur Irritating Specks Tiresome

Author:Amy Tan

“...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.”

Littles Happens Sleep Break Goes On Habit Eating Performances Crisis Routine Washing Whatever Happens Break Through Life Goes On

Author:Daphne du Maurier

“What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday... He consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the habit of hoping for it.”

World Littles Real Facts Light Might Wanted Darkness Habit Everyday Real World Better Place Believable Bruised Grime

Author:Colum McCann

“I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.”

Knows Littles Enough Facts Seems Secret Habit Normal Understood Loud

Author:A.M. Homes

“One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.”

Littles Girl Habit Get Over

Book:ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery

Source: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery

“He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.”

Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more

“Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts—the sticker bindis on club kids, sindoor in the hair of an unmarried pop star, Hindi characters inked carelessly on tight tank tops and pale flesh. She knew Americans liked to flash a little Indian or Japanese or African. They were always looking for a little pepper to put in their dish.”

“I don't like this." "I know you don't, my little spaetzel. But I am too worn out to run from both the police and your murderous twin, and Damian's looking peaky, plus Christian did apologize for trying to kill us earlier." "I wasn't talking about that. It's your lamentable habit of using completely unsuitable love names for me that gives me grief," Adrian groused. "I am not a lambypie, nor am I a spaetzel.”

Knows Giving Trying Littles Running Christian Names Grief Talking Habit Give Me Police Plus Twins Worn Apologizing Worn Out

Book:Sex, Lies and Vampires (Dark Ones Book Three)

Source: Sex, Lies and Vampires (Dark Ones Book Three)