“When Ben Stiller and I first got married and we first had kids, I felt I needed to prove we could still do it and I could still work separately from Ben and I could still work with him. I just let go of all of that now. I said to him, 'For me, a little bit goes a long way.'” WayFirstsLittlesLongSaidStillsKidsFeltBitsNeededProveLetting GoMarriedLittle BitLong WayJust Let Go Author:Christine Taylor
“How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.” LittlesLongLightFallBitsLinesLittle BitDance Author:Dar Williams
“I've run out of mates that haven't had a baby now. It does make me think of my parents having a family so young and the fact that I've been able to avoid it for so long. It does make me a feel a little bit selfish.” ThinkingFeelsLittlesLongDoeFactsRunningAbleYoungBitsParentHavensBabyLittle BitSelfishMates Author:Nick Moran
“What we're talking about is the endless, gullible elevation of necessary levels of comfort and status and everything else at the complete expense of all around us. It's going to take us a long time to learn how to climb down a little bit from the heights on which we have put ourselves.” LittlesLongBitsLevelsTalkingComfortLittle BitLong TimeEndlessHeightClimbsExpensesConsumerismOverconsumptionElevationGullible Author:Bill McKibben
“Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a little bit, terribly. You know when you're that close that long and got along as well as we did, we seldom had any serious arguments. We might have - might discuss which movie we wanted to see and what play we wanted to go to, where we ought to go for a vacation but that usually didn't last very long because we were much of the same mind all the time.” KnowsLoveMindWellsLittlesLongPlayMightTodayWantedLastsBitsLove YouTearsSeriousMonthsOughtTerribleLittle BitArgumentVacationTime Love Author:Walter Cronkite
“I never learned to play properly either, I was a little bit too lazy for that, but as long I could express myself in a way that had sound, I was happy.” WayLittlesLongPlayBitsSoundLittle BitLazy Author:Tove Styrke
“I'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it gets to be two hours, that's a little bit too long for me.” IfsGivingLittlesPersonsLongTwoBitsHoursPerfectAttentionMinutesLittle BitGive MeAttention SpanShort Attention Spans Author:Courteney Cox
“A lot of bands that are great disappear a little bit faster than they used to. They don't get as much support for the long haul. You have to be pretty tough to hang in there.” LittlesLongUsedBitsSupportBandLittle BitToughDisappearFasterHaulHang In ThereLong Haul Author:Judd Apatow
“You're gonna meet tons of different people throughout your life, and it's totally worth it to stick your neck out a little bit if you like someone. Even when you get shot down, it seems really devastating, but it's not in the long run.” PeopleIfsLittlesLongDifferentSeemsRunningBitsLittle BitShotsSticksNecksLong RunsWorth ItDifferent Peoples Author:Pete Wentz
“My body's feeling it a little bit. But one good thing, my back is in good shape, and that's my main concern. I know that my legs are going to take awhile to get back to where I was a few years ago, but as long as my back is solid, I feel that I can play many years.” KnowsFeelsYearsLittlesLongI CanPlayFeelingsBodyBitsSportsShapesLittle BitConcernYears AgoGood ThingsLegsGet Back Author:Mario Lemieux
“I believe that I'm going to have a long career, as long as I want, and I think by me going out into the world living a little bit made me... gave me more depth, so when I do go, going into movies is much easier for me.” ThinkingWorldWantBelieveLittlesLongMadeI BelieveBitsCareersEasierLittle BitDepthGoing OutLong Careers Author:Chris Tucker
“I just wear jeans, big motorcycle boots and T-shirts that are way too big for me. I like anything that has lived a little bit, that has traces of life on it. Knitwear that's a tiny bit too long because you've pulled it with your hands, or jeans that are starting to get holes.” WayLittlesLongHandsBigsBitsLittle BitStartingTinyHolesShirtsBootsJeansT ShirtMotorcycleKnitwear Author:Clemence Poesy
“The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.” PeopleIfsWorldLittlesLongEnoughReligionBitsDifferencesChurchCommonHellHolyLittle BitSaintGatesContrastSteelIgnoredHammersImpressiveDespisedSanctityPrevailingConvictsGates Of Hell Author:Bill Vaughan
“Now I understand what exhaustion is. It’s not just a code word for heroin addiction. People don’t teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it’s something I’d never had to handle, because I’d been rejected for so long.” PeopleLittlesLongBitsTeachLittle BitAddictionHandleCodeRejectedExhaustionHeroinWorkloadHeroin Addiction Author:Felicia Day
“I don't eat a lot of anything. A little bit of everything, but not a lot of everything. Small meals all day long.” LittlesLongBitsLittle BitMeals Author:Giada De Laurentiis
“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
“Sometimes when I am in a situation that I have never been in, I kind of pull back a little bit to observe things; it doesn't really last long though I have to. I've resigned to myself to the fact that I have to be me.” KindLittlesLongSometimesFactsLastsBitsSituationLittle BitResigned Author:Queen Latifah
“For me, possibility, progress, growth, those things are very.. they feel very good. It doesn't usually come with negativity. I don't really mind sucking at something as long as I'm getting a little bit better at it along the way.” WayFeelsMindLittlesLongBitsGrowthProgressPossibilityLittle BitVery GoodNegativity Author:Demetri Martin
“The upsides of acting in things is mostly getting your hair done and having people give you clothes. So as long as you can have a little bit of that in your life, then it's just as delightful to be behind camera.” PeopleGivingLittlesLongDoneBitsActingBehindsHairLittle BitClothesCamerasDelightful Author:Tina Fey
“I would never have thought I was capable of sitting on the bench as the number two man. And it showed me that you can really achieve everything in life, even the unthinkable, as long as you're willing to work on yourself a little bit.” MenLittlesLongTwoBitsNumbersAchieveWillingLittle BitCapableSittingBenchesUnthinkableSitting On The Bench Author:Oliver Kahn
“Hope is such a powerful thing. We all have hope for different things, but I think sometimes we need to share our hope with other people. We're sometimes in our own issues, and it isolates us, but when we come together and encourage each other and give a little bit of hope, it can, like it says in the song, go a long way.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsGivingLittlesLongDifferentSometimesTogetherSongBitsPowerfulIssuesShareLittle BitDifferent ThingsLong WayHaving Hope Author:Natasha Bedingfield
“I have a dresser, who literally is a guy who makes sure the tie is right. It's a little bit of a process. I could probably do it by myself, but it would take me three times as long.” LittlesLongGuyThreeBitsProcessLittle BitTiesTake MeThree TimesDressers Author:Steve Buscemi
“If you work in the city long enough, it begins to deal with you on a personal level. Streets reveal their moods. Sometimes the signal light loves you. Sometimes they fight you. When you're hunting for a new building, you hope the city is on your side. You have to use a little bit of thinking--you might call it the process of elimination--and you need a little bit of instinct, but not too much of either. If you think too hard, you overshoot your target and end up at the Pier or the Tenderloin. If you relax and let the city help, the destination does all the work for you.” IfsThinkingNeedsLittlesLongDoeEndsSometimesHardEnoughHelpingUseLightMightFightingBitsProcessSidesLevelsDealsCitiesToo MuchStreetsLove YouBuildingLittle BitInstinctMoodRelaxTargetDestinationHuntingSignalsYour SideEliminationPiers Author:Scott Adams
“Usually I just let my songs do the talking. As a matter of fact I have long had an aversion to celebrities endorsing politics, and in some cases even other causes. I wonder about their motives. And I have to admit when celebrities get involved in political campaigns I tend to get a little bit sarcastic about it.” LittlesLongMatterFactsPoliticalSongCausesBitsTalkingWonderCasesInvolvedLittle BitCampaignsMotiveSarcasticGet InvolvedMatter Of FactAversionPolitical CampaignEndorsing Author:John Fogerty
“I don't know how much things have changed. You still need to be able to run the ball, pick up blitzes and catch the ball out of the backfield. Perhaps you need a running back to do a little bit more or be more versatile today but that is a good thing. People say we get hurt and don't last as long, but it's still an important position and you need everyone in the backfield to be able to contribute.” PeopleKnowsNeedsLittlesLongStillsImportantRunningTodayAbleLastsBitsHurtKnow HowPositionChangedLittle BitPicksBallsGood ThingsThings Have ChangedVersatileRunning Back Author:Giovani Bernard
“At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.” PeopleWayWritingLittlesLongStillsFeelingsTurnsSpeakBitsBrainFictionLittle BitCrisisGrievingDistressMournWriting PoetryTimes Of Crisis Author:Blake Morrison
“I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into graphic design and art. I decided to be a little bit of an artist on my face.” ThinkingLittlesLongArtFacesArtistBitsPerfectMorningDesignLittle BitMusicianLong TimeDecidedEvery MorningBeardGraphicGraphic DesignDesign And Art Author:Craig David
“What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I'm semi-serious here. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing... he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance... Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women.” IfsThinkingLooksLittlesLongImportantJobsEvilNationsBitsTakenNiceInfluenceSeriousLittle BitStandardsDevilRedTinySubstanceAttractiveHelpfulFlashBeing NiceTailsSalesmanGreat WomenEvil Things Author:Albert Brooks
“The books people are writing today, they're too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of Creative Writing. They teach classes in how to do this. They should teach classes in how to stop!” PeopleShouldWritingLittlesLongBookTodayBitsClassTeachCreativeLittle BitPagesPlotCreative Writing Author:Douglas Adams
“I don't think it's a bad thing to play a character that's not necessarily a super-woman. Even if the character is a little bit stereotypical, as long as the whole story is good and positive, or makes some sort of important statement, I think it's okay. But, on the whole, you can't just do that, especially as a black woman. It's more of a responsibility. You've gotta let the world see black women being successful, strong, smart, with power and who are self-possessed.” IfsThinkingWorldLittlesLongImportantSelfPlayWholeCharacterStoriesStrongBitsBlackResponsibilitySuccessfulLittle BitSmartOkayStatementsBeing SuccessfulBad ThingsPossessedBlack WomenSuper Woman Author:Megalyn Echikunwoke
“I don't try to hit the ball 500 feet. It looks good when you hit it 500 feet, but as long as it goes over the fence, it's a home run. When you swing hard, it takes a little bit of recognition away from you. The power you're trying to increase - you're not all the way through it with your vision.” WayTryingLooksLittlesLongHardHomeRunningBitsVisionFeetLittle BitBallsIncreaseRecognitionSwingsFenceAway From YouHome Run Author:David Ortiz
“On the very last day of shooting [of The Last King of Scotlang], I remember wanting to get the [Idi Amin] character out of me right away, as much as I could. You literally take a bath to wash him off you. Luckily, I went into another part not so long afterwards, so I was kind of able to push it away a little bit. But speech patterns, and little sounds, particularly colloquial things, like the way you ask questions or might respond, were sticking with me, probably because I'd worked so hard to make it a part of my everyday way of expressing myself.” WayKindLittlesLongHardCharacterMightAbleLastsRememberAsksBitsSoundKingsSpeechLittle BitEverydayPatternsShootingBathsLast Day Author:Forest Whitaker
“I'm not one for being too profound, but I will say this. If you wanna have a good time, if you wanna drink a little bit y'know get your sing-a-long on, come and see the Dropkick Murphys and have a good time.” IfsKnowsLittlesLongBitsDrinkLittle BitProfoundGood TimesHaving A Good Time Author:Al Barr
“I think ultimately what you really want is a few people within any label that are into the band enough to really work on it every day for a long time and to actually try a little bit. But obviously, the major labels have more money to spend, so if they feel like spending it, they have bigger resources there when you need them. It doesn't always necessarily translate into them doing a better job for a band, but I think especially if you're playing the game of commercial radio and making videos and stuff like that, that's sort of an expensive proposition.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsFeelsTryingLittlesLongEnoughJobsGamesStuffBitsBandMajorsLittle BitLong TimeResourcesBiggerRadioSpendingVideoLabelsExpensiveMore MoneyTranslatePropositionsBetter Jobs Author:Adam Schlesinger
“So when I can, I try my best to meditate a little bit every day, and that helps a lot. I think that just taking a minute, or however long you can, and really acknowledging everything that you have. Acknowledging what you have, and at the same time, acknowledging what other folks don't have. And you know, you don't have to feel guilty about it, but definitely to feel grateful is the first step in giving it back.” ThinkingKnowsGivingFeelsTryingFirstsLittlesLongI CanHelpingBitsStepsMinutesLittle BitGratefulFolksGuiltyFirst Steps Author:Thao Nguyen
“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
“And for so long, I had thought if I was going to write a song, or get "into" something, I had to at least smoke a joint or something. And that didn't work anymore. Once I was fairly well cleaned out, even a little bit of a drug getting into my work threw me off kilter.” IfsWritingWellsLittlesLongSongBitsDrugLittle BitSmokeJoints Author:Iggy Pop
“I'll always love Paraguay. It's this most exotic place configured out of the imagination, the whole country.Paraguay will always be a special place in my heart. I go back a long way. I first arrived as a refugee in 1982 from the Falklands War. So it was a safe haven then, and it has become something exotic since then. I feel like I'd like the dust to settle a little bit before going back.” WayFeelsFirstsHeartLittlesLongWarCountryWholeBitsImaginationSpecialHavensMy HeartSafeLittle BitDustSettlingRefugeeLong WayExoticSpecial PlacesSafe HavenParaguayFalklandsExotic Places Author:John Gimlette
“The sort of formality that goes into my artwork I would not expect from everybody in the world. I'm sort of pushing that point to its limit, in my mind, but I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with using a laptop so long as we have some understanding of how it works a little bit.” ThinkingWorldMindLittlesLongBitsUnderstandingLimitsLittle BitPushingAbsolutely NothingArtworkLaptopsFormality Author:Tristan Perich
“It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they have a little bit more permission to do it. It happens the least, at the individual level at least, in the South, because the South has very strong, you know, set up black churches and white churches and a long history of that, and so it's a bigger social cost.” KnowsLittlesLongHappensIndividualStrongSocialBitsBlackChurchWhiteLevelsCostLittle BitBiggerWestSouthVery StrongPermissionSomewhere ElseFluidBlack Church Author:Michael Emerson
“In the process of making the record, I was just so bored all the time working whatever stupid job. I felt like a stagnant pond that has algae and mildew and weird animal cells, and I felt like if I sat around not doing anything long enough, that I'd probably end up going a little bit crazy.” IfsLittlesLongEndsEnoughJobsFeltBitsProcessAnimalRecordsCrazyStupidLittle BitCellsBoredSatPondsStagnantAlgaeSo BoredMildew Author:Josh Jones
“When you're young, and you have long hair, it's just really long hair. And then you get to a certain point where you start to look after it, and then people will tell you that you have to cut a little bit off so it grows quicker. And it just doesn't. It just has more cut off. And I think I just got really annoyed with it.” PeopleThinkingLooksLittlesLongYoungCertainGrowsBitsCuttingHairLittle BitAnnoyedReally LongLong Hair Author:Justin Hawkins
“If the work jells a little bit in terms of being placed in the oeuvre, I don't care - as long as it works.” IfsLittlesLongCareBitsTermLittle BitDon't CareI Don't Care Author:David Shrigley
“In my normal way of doing things, there's a little bit of 'going native' that takes place, where you're in a world long enough, you can't really help but start to see things in a nuanced, more humanistic way. Just because you're with people and you start to in general slightly like the people you're with.” PeopleWorldWayLittlesLongEnoughHelpingBitsNormalLittle BitNativeHumanistic Author:Louis Theroux
“There was a little bit of hesitancy about staying in Pittsburgh and not moving away for college, but that didn't last long. It was right in line with what I wanted, so I auditioned there and it wasn't a tough decision.” LittlesLongWantedLastsMovingBitsLinesDecisionCollegeLittle BitToughStayingPittsburghMoving AwayTough Decisions Author:Zachary Quinto
“I had an audition process that went on for a long time, and I got to spend a lot of time with the guys who are directing the film. Getting to be around them and being around the world a little bit has been the main experience so far. I did my audition on the Millennium Falcon for one of my screen tests, which was pretty cool.” WorldLittlesLongHas BeensFilmGuyBitsProcessLittle BitLong TimeTestsScreensAround The WorldAuditionsMillenniumFalcon Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“Although I could be wrong. If Roland Emmerich's thinking about doing that at some point, I'd be glad to don the long hair again. But sometimes you can just go a little bit further out with something you're only going to be doing for a short run” IfsThinkingLittlesLongSometimesRunningBitsHairLittle BitGladLong Hair Author:Brent Spiner
“I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.” NeedsLittlesLongI CanBitsCan DoSleepInformationLittle Bit Author:Kanye West
“I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those people who took a long time to come out.” PeopleWritingLittlesLongRememberBitsLittle BitLong TimeLarryKramer Author:Kevin Sessums
“I feel like I have more experience with publishing humor than pretty much any editor I'm going to be dealing with so sometimes I'll get a little bit nuts if I write something I know is good a certain way, and some editor because of some restriction he has and wants to change it that I know is going to make it less funny that'll piss me off and then I'm inclined to go, "Well, hey I've been doing this a long time, maybe you should..." That doesn't happen that often, but I'm more likely to say that now than I would have been a long time ago. Because dammit, I'm infallible!” IfsKnowsWayWantFeelsShouldWritingWellsLittlesLongHas BeensSometimesHappensCertainBitsLittle BitLong TimeHeyEditorsNutsPublishingLong Time AgoRestrictionInfallible Author:Dave Barry