“Every great movement and which the conservative movement is, of course, every great movement ends up being a little bit sclerotic and dusty after a time and I think they need new fusion of energy.” ThinkingNeedsLittlesEndsCoursesEnergyBitsMovementLittle BitConservativeFusion Author:Kellyanne Conway
“Doing [a relationship comedy] with Sam [L. Jackson] was exciting. I've done a lot of comedies with a lot of comedy people. My peers. I've never worked with anybody of the kind of dramatic caliber of movie actor that Sam is. It was a little bit intimidating for the first day. Or two... Or the first week. Other than that, it was a joy.” PeopleFirstsKindLittlesTwoDoneJoyActorsBitsComedyWeekLittle BitExcitingDramaticPeersIntimidatingCaliberMovie Actors Author:Samuel L. Jackson
“It's fun to play characters in songs. I can just cheat a little bit... be this person for just a small amount of time and just help vent that idea.” LittlesPersonsI CanIdeasPlayCharacterHelpingSongFunBitsAmountLittle BitCheatSmall Amounts Author:Brendon Urie
“We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.” PeopleGivingLittlesPoliticalOrderBitsCommonGiving UpLittle BitConsensusCommon GroundTurf Author:Hillary Clinton
“Sometimes a lack of perspective can bring its challenges relative to someone who has a little bit more.” LittlesSometimesBitsChallengesPerspectiveLittle BitRelative Author:Nick Viall
“It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was a little bit here or there but there was no big effort to ban books.” WritingLittlesBookWholeBigsHappensBitsEffortLittle BitDecadesBans Author:Judy Blume
“Part of our identity is the idea that racism is still there and that we are vulnerable to it. So, the question is, 'How vulnerable?' In other words, is it really a problem for us, or is it just a small thing. How do you evaluate racism in America on a scale of 1 to 10? My suspicion is that most blacks overrate it a bit. Not to say it's not there, but we overrate it because this masking is part of our relationship to the larger society. This is a way we keep whites on the hook. We keep them obligated, and we keep ourselves entitled. There's an incentive, you see, to inflate it a little bit.” WayLittlesStillsIdeasProblemAmericaBitsIdentityLittle BitRacismScalesVulnerableOur RelationshipSuspicionEntitledHookIncentivesSmall ThingsEvaluateRacism In America Author:Shelby Steele
“Darla [from Buffy The Vampire Slayer] wasn't Darla in the beginning, by the way. Darla was just Vampire Girl #1. But I just started adding a little bit of glee and joy into everything she did and just relied on the fact that the prosthetic does the work. And then I didn't have to be scary. The prosthetic was scary enough. I just had to smile and show off Darla's really great dental work.” WayLittlesDoeEnoughFactsShowsJoyGirlBitsLittle BitScaryVampireReally GreatShowing OffGleeDentalSlayerBuffy The Vampire SlayerProstheticsDental Work Author:Julie Benz
“To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn't do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress. So when Bush came into the presidency, North Korea had enough uranium or plutonium for maybe one or two bombs, but then very limited missile capacity. During the Bush years it's exploded. The reason is, he immediately canceled the diplomacy and he's pretty much blocked it ever since.” YearsLittlesTwoStatesReasonEnoughBitsSidesUnitedUnited StatesProgressLittle BitCapacityClintonObligationAdministrationBombsPresidencyDiplomacyKoreaPursuedNorth KoreaMisleadMissilesHad EnoughBlockedUraniumPlutonium Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think that, if we do anything in a positive sense for the world, is provide one little bit of context, that's very specifically focused, and hopefully people can add to their entire puzzle that gives them a larger picture of what it is that they see.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldGivingLittlesBitsLittle BitAddFocusedHopefullyPuzzlesOf Context Author:Jon Stewart
“I feel like the only thing that I can do, and I've been fired from enough jobs, that I'm pretty confident in saying this, the only thing that I can do, even a little bit better than most people, is create that sort of that context with humor. And that's my way of not being helpless and not being hopeless.” PeopleWayFeelsLittlesI CanEnoughJobsBitsCan DoLittle BitMy WayHopelessHelpless Author:Jon Stewart
“We've decided [with Jordan Peele] that we need to be on the Internet for a little bit of time every day to figure out what's going on. It feels like we're working. It feels like you're all typing and you're searching.” NeedsFeelsLittlesBitsFiguresLike YouInternetLittle BitDecidedWorking ItJordanTyping Author:Keegan-Michael Key
“As I grow and get older, mature a bit, and work on my big boy voice a little bit, I definitely want to direct.” WantLittlesBigsGrowsBitsVoiceBoysLittle BitDirectMature Author:Michael B. Jordan
“One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time. What would be the first thing I'd add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that's what I do. Then what's the next thing? And I'd say, well, loving people. And then the next.” PeopleTryingFirstsWellsLittlesMightWould BeSchoolNextJesusSpeakBitsSoundRealizingAnswersClearOne ThingMonthsLittle BitAddSundayZeroNutsDeckSunday SchoolEtch A Sketch Author:Bob Goff
“In some contexts in Pakistan maybe a beard is negative. It depends. And in some contexts in America maybe a beard is positive. I think there's certainly lots of hipster communities where having a beard makes me look a little bit less like a, you know, middle-aged fuddy-duddy. And there's some places in Pakistan where having a beard, you know, certain corporate contexts, certain social contexts, where it's not an advantage to have a beard.” ThinkingKnowsLooksLittlesAmericaCertainSocialBitsCommunityMiddleDependsLittle BitAdvantageNegativeCorporatePakistanBeardMiddle AgedHipster Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Basically what Salomé did with Rilke as a mentor was direct him toward the Russian Orthodox Church, so he could project his love of the divine feminine onto the Virgin Mary. She wanted him to stop the cycle of being disappointed by the ultimate humanity of women. She was like, "You don't want me, you want the Virgin Mary." It's kind of a mystical concept! She also changed Freud's opinion, a little bit too late, about the female psyche, which he had so wrong. If it had been better publicized, it would have changed Western society's perception of the female psyche, too.” IfsWantKindLittlesWantedHumanityBitsChurchOpinionChangedDivineLike YouProjectsLatePerceptionLittle BitConceptsFemaleDirectUltimateWesternToo LateCyclesOrthodoxFeminineDisappointedWant MeMaryMentorMysticalVirginsHis LoveVirgin MaryDivine FeminineWestern SocietyBeing DisappointedOrthodox Church Author:Laura Marling
“I love the fact that everybody slightly changes during the holidays. Most people are a little bit brighter and have a little bit more cheer around the Christmas time and are a little bit more giving, so I love that.” PeopleGivingLittlesFactsBitsLittle BitHolidayCheerBrighterChristmas Time Author:Jordin Sparks
“Being an older person now, I'm finding that people are calling me to play various things. Variations on the theme of mother, caretaker, and in some cases, doctors, heads of organizations and things like that. For some people, I'm finally old enough to play those roles. We see men playing them when they're a little bit younger, and also in roles that call for some form of conflict and violence, either generating it or trying to curtail it. Women don't seem to be a big part of those common and often used movie themes.” PeopleMenTryingLittlesPersonsEnoughPlayBigsSeemsFormUsedMotherBitsCommonRolesCasesViolenceCallingConflictFindingsLittle BitDoctorsOrganizationVariousThemeVariationCaretakers Author:Barbara Crampton
“We`re a little bit low in the 1970s, right, post-Vietnam, Watergate era, malaise, all that, but this is more like the 1930s where the very notion of liberal democracy is being questioned, and that is disturbing.” LittlesBitsDemocracyLittle BitLowsNotionErasPostsVietnamDisturbing1930sWatergateMalaiseLiberal Democracy Author:Daniel Fried
“Some autistic people have savant skills. All autistic people do not have savant skills. Autism is a very variable disorder varying all the way from Einstein, emollient scientist, just a little bit of the trait, many scientist and engineers, down to somebody that's going to remain nonverbal.” PeopleWayLittlesBitsSkillsLittle BitScientistDisorderTraitsEngineersAutismVariablesAutisticNonverbalSavantsScientists And Engineers Author:Temple Grandin
“When I'm offstage, I never feel famous. I will never let anybody call a restaurant and say, "We're with Kenny Chesney. Can you get us in?" That's so pretentious. I'm pretty simple except for the fact that I have a really great boat and a little bit of money. When I'm offstage I don't feel like the person everybody sees.” FeelsLittlesPersonsFactsBitsSimpleLittle BitBoatRestaurantsReally GreatPretentiousKenny Author:Kenny Chesney
“[My mother] told me a little bit about the scene out there and I think, as a small child, I just always felt a connection to that history because my mother had described it to me.” ThinkingChildrenLittlesMotherFeltBitsSceneLittle BitConnectionsSmall Child Author:Jon Gordon
“We [with my mother] listened to music when I was a kid. We listened to a little bit of Bob's [Gordon] music, but just a little, I think it was too painful for her.” ThinkingLittlesKidsMotherBitsLittle BitPainfulBob Author:Jon Gordon
“Families that I lived with a little bit in junior high and quite a bit in high school and college. Just to have a safe, sane space with food and things like that. That's what I needed. And people were really kind and really generous. So I think the world kind of opened up my first years of performing arts, studying classical saxophone with Caesar DiMauro.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsFirstsKindLittlesArtSchoolBitsSpaceStudyCollegeNeededSafeLittle BitHigh SchoolPerformingGenerousSaneJuniorsSaxophoneJunior HighPerforming Arts Author:Jon Gordon
“I'm reaching a certain level [at school] that I had been aspiring to with all these incredibly advanced classical peers around me that I had been trying to be able to hang with them a little bit.” TryingLittlesAbleSchoolCertainBitsLevelsLittle BitReachingPeers Author:Jon Gordon
“A tenor player named Bud Revels there at the time. A lot of really nice associations amongst the students. Garry Dial was a returning student. He actually got me on Red Rodney's band subbing a little bit. I gigged some with Red when I was 21 in 1988. So I had a lot of nice associations that came from [ Laguardia School of Arts]. But a lot of my education was going on in the clubs. Hearing music and sitting in.” LittlesArtSchoolBitsNicePlayerStudentsBandLittle BitSittingRedClubsHearingAssociationBudReally NiceTenorsHearing Music Author:Jon Gordon
“Barry Harris had a club called Jazz Cultural Theater and there were sessions there on a regular basis. I remember being there and sitting in with [Charles] McPherson and Barry being there, and just smiling at me. He didn't talk to me much at the time, he just came up and gave me a smile, which meant a lot. I've since gotten to know him and been around him a little bit.” KnowsLittlesRememberBitsLittle BitSittingBasesTheaterJazzClubsSessionBeing ThereTalk To Me Author:Jon Gordon
“What I feel the most confident about as a teacher, whatever my strengths and weaknesses are. The fact that I got to be around those people, I feel like that I have something to offer because of that blessing. Being around them a little bit... I'm not them. I'm certainly not trying to compare myself to them. But in lieu of them being able to impart something, the fact that I had so many people like that that were kind to me and talked to me was invaluable.” PeopleFeelsTryingKindLittlesFactsAbleBitsTeacherBlessingOffersLittle BitWeaknessCompareImpartInvaluableStrength And Weakness Author:Jon Gordon
“Phil [Wood] was known for having a little bit of a gruff manner, but he was all heart.” HeartLittlesBitsKnownLittle BitWoods Author:Jon Gordon
“There were some things I was going and doing in Europe a little bit. Some festivals that brought me over. That was good. Some touring I did over there. But there was nothing major [from 22 to 29].” LittlesBitsMajorsLittle BitEuropeFestivalsTouring Author:Jon Gordon
“I'm very gratified that I had my little 15 minutes,or whatever [at the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition]. It certainly didn't make me rich and famous. But it helped a little bit for a while.” LittlesBitsRichMinutesLittle BitCompetitionInternationalMonkSaxophone Author:Jon Gordon
“I was able to go over [Saxophone Competition] and work a little more in Europe. I'm thankful that those of kinds of things. Simultaneously, some nice things did come in. I got a nice festival that came in, in Virginia through that. There was a club that opened in DC in the famous Willard Hotel near the White House. And the club was called The Nest. I played there a few nights. Some musicians in Philly and D.C. kind of brought me down and got me on a couple things. So things opened up a little bit.” KindLittlesAbleNightHouseBitsWhiteNiceCoupleLittle BitMusicianEuropeDown AndCompetitionClubsHotelWhite HouseFestivalsNestsVirginiaNice ThingsSaxophoneSome NiceCouple Things Author:Jon Gordon
“We were working from very exact models and dimensions and weights of clay to make these pots which had been designed some 10 or 12 years previous to our arriving [at Bernard's Leach studio]. And we, being, I guess you would say young, arrogant Americans, thought that we ought to be able to somehow express ourselves a little bit more in the daily work of the pottery.” YearsLittlesAbleYoungBitsOughtLittle BitModelsWeightStudiosDimensionsPotArrogantClayArrivingPotteryDaily Work Author:Warren MacKenzie
“If [Bernard Leach] didn't like the drawing, he'd X it out and do another one and change the form a little bit. And when he was all done, he would stuff these pieces of paper in his pocket and go off to the pottery, and when he wanted to make pots, he would then take these out and he'd begin to produce the pot that he had designed on paper in front of us.” IfsLittlesDoneWantedFormStuffBitsPiecesFrontsProducePaperLittle BitDrawingPocketsPotPottery Author:Warren MacKenzie
“Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after [Hans] Coper had died that I saw an exhibition of his, a catalogue from an exhibition, and he was showing some forms which were made by cutting and joining a lot of different parts together to create what he called a spade form, which you can imagine looks a little bit like a shovel upside down.” YearsLooksLittlesMadeDifferentTogetherFormBitsSawsCuttingImagineLittle BitYears AgoDiedJoiningUpside DownExhibitionsShovelsSpadesVasesCatalogues Author:Warren MacKenzie
“There were a lot of different things [in The Women's Room ]. I don't really want to summarize it in this way. It's about a woman's awakening, a woman who came of age in the '50s and is a teenager - actually, she's a little bit older - in the '60s and part of the women's movement and how she ends up there.” WayWantLittlesDifferentEndsAgeBitsRoomsMovementLittle BitAwakeningTeenagerDifferent Things Author:June Diane Raphael
“As I grew a little bit older and got interested in law, I read that Clarence Darrow didn't believe in the Bible either. So I read everything he had ever written, all of his trials, everything - to search out the philosophy of his disbelief.But I couldn't find it.” BelieveLittlesPhilosophyLawBitsWrittenGrewLittle BitTrialsIn-lawsDisbelief Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“I would like to enjoy my life a little bit more so I can really have more fun, but my work is my fun.” LittlesI CanFunBitsEnjoyLittle Bit Author:Diana Ross
“I think that's what we really need in America, for people to hear each other. And I think philosophy could do a little bit better on that.” PeopleThinkingNeedsLittlesPhilosophyAmericaBitsLittle Bit Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“As much as there is joy in writing, there's always the little bit of terror to keep you on edge, on your toes. It is a strange way to occupy yourself - to enjoy your life on a daily basis. There is no guarantee that something great is going to come next.” WayWritingLittlesJoyNextBitsEnjoyStrangeLittle BitBasesEdgesTerrorGuaranteesToesGuarantees ThatEnjoy Your LifeOccupy Yourself Author:Robert Cormier
“You can't click through a book, you can't hyperlink and jump out of it. It requires a little bit more of a regular engagement.” LittlesBookBitsLittle BitEngagementClicks Author:Josh Prince
“I think in L.A. everybody has a really cool flare, trendy style here. I think I kinda adapt be it I'm a little more trendy in L.A. Somewhere in New York, I could literally sit at a café and have a cappuccino and watch people walk by and it's like a fashion show to me. Compared to somewhere like Miami where I literally wear beachwear all day and I can walk around barefoot. My style is consistent. It may bend a little bit according to cities, but that's about it.” PeopleThinkingMayLittlesI CanShowsBitsWalksCitiesWatchesFashionStyleNew YorkLittle BitConsistentReally CoolMiamiBarefootTrendyFlareFashion ShowCappuccino Author:Kelly Rowland
“Everything you draw is influenced. It's like yogurt. You need a little bit to start the next batch.” NeedsLittlesNextBitsLittle BitDrawsYogurt Author:Sarnath Banerjee
“This may be a little bit of a provocative thing to say, but the memoirist doesn't owe the reader anything other than a good story and the inclining of the mind in the direction of memory. Of course, the memoirist is not allowed to make things up. But the really skilled memoirist knows what to leave in and what to leave out to serve the story. In autobiography you can't do that.” KnowsMindMayLittlesStoriesCoursesBitsMemoriesReaderLittle BitAutobiographyGood StoryProvocative Author:Dani Shapiro
“That's the thing about golf. In a team sport, when a team's on a roll, you have a little bit more data and comfort in predicting whether the roll's gonna continue, whether the team is playing well and who the opponent is. But the golf course is the opponent. It changes every round in terms of wind and weather and so forth. And your game is never the same two days in a row. It's almost impossible to handicap and predict.” WellsLittlesTwoCoursesGamesBitsSportsTermImpossibleTeamWindComfortLittle BitGolfRoundsWeatherDataOpponentsGolf CourseTwo DaysHandicapsPredictingSports Team Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In a way, art has always been my way of problem-solving, of getting through situations, of finding my response to things, so to imagine doing something else makes me panic a little bit.” WayLittlesArtProblemBitsSituationImagineFindingsLittle BitResponseMy WayPanicProblem Solving Author:Tom Burr
“It's not the '80s any more. We're not all riding around in limousines and snorting coke off of hookers' tits. We still have to keep working and touring. We're definitely still very much a working band. If we stopped doing this tomorrow, we'd have a little bit of cash to last us a couple of months, and then we'd have to go and get other jobs.” IfsLittlesStillsJobsLastsBitsMonthsCoupleTomorrowBandLittle BitCashRiding80sTouringCokeLimousines Author:Jim James
“There is a little bit of hubris to want to change the past. It implies that you know better - that things didn't happen the way that they were supposed to.” KnowsWayWantLittlesHappensPastBitsLittle BitHubris Author:Jason Segel
“Describing some kinds of feelings comes across as too excessive in the first person. If you put it in the third person, you're taking a little bit of a distance, and that way it becomes more apprehensible to a viewer. You're always riding this fine line of risking saying too much, do you know what I mean? When you feel you're in that area, if you shift the address a little bit it can alter it.” IfsKnowsWayFeelsFirstsKindMeanLittlesPersonsFeelingsBitsLinesToo MuchFineLittle BitAreasThirdsDistanceAddressesDo You KnowRidingViewersDescribingFirst PersonFine LinesThird PersonSaying Too Much Author:Moyra Davey