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“You take a handful of rocks and put them in a jar. Then once a week, you take one tiny pebble out of the jar and throw it away. When the jar is empty, why, you'll just about be over your grief. ... Time alone will do if you're short on rocks.”

Ifs Grief Week Rocks Empty Tiny Over You Handful Me Alone Jars Pebbles Alone Time

Book:Lovely in Her Bones

Source: Lovely in Her Bones

“once your eyes get opened to pacifism, you can't shut them again. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. You may bitterly regret the fact that you happen to be one of the tiny minority of the human race who have caught this angle of vision, but you can't help it.”

Humans May Facts Helping Happens Eye Peace Race Vision Regret Caught Tiny Human Race Minorities Angle Pacifism

Book:It Occurred to Me

Source: It Occurred to Me

“In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.”

Ends Animal Tiny Frightened

Author:James Hollis

“Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive!”

People Alive Hollywood Tiny Opera Soap Soap Operas

Author:Julie Bowen

“I love discovering tiny streets.”

Streets Tiny Discovering

Author:Michelle Dockery

“I love walking into a closet and smelling lingering perfume, so I always spray my clothes. And at the end of the bottle, when the atomizer no longer reaches the tiny little dribble that is left, I unscrew the top and pour the remainder onto a t-shirt or dress.”

Littles Ends Left Walking Clothes Dresses Tiny Shirts Bottles Closets Perfume T Shirt Spray Lingering Dribble

Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.”

Play Jobs Four Tiny Endless Auditions Obscure

Author:Anna Chancellor

“At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.”

Kind Two Rooms Acting Careers Seasons Tiny Landscape Village Exploring Countryside Pubs

Author:Cherie Lunghi

“Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warped.”

Faces Bits Lines Worry Too Much Tiny Your Face Laughed Too Short Life's Too Short

Author:Ashley Jensen

“Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's going to be a plunge. I think poetry is dangerous. There's nothing mild and predictable about poetry.”

Thinking Knows Littles Next Steps Dangerous Walking Tiny Poetry Is Predictable Plunge Next Steps Precipice Ridges

Author:Josephine Jacobsen

“They say you should never eat before you go to bed, but I've found just having a tiny little snack - like half an apple or something like that - before you go to sleep really helps.”

Should Littles Helping Found Sleep Half Bed Tiny Apples Going To Sleep Snacks

Author:Kelly Osbourne

“I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.”

Light Mother Father House Lost Tree Grew Grew Up Singing Tiny Golden Dawn Piano Palestinian Showers Chords House Music Golden Light Tiny Houses

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“I work just as hard and have just as much fun whether in a 50-seat house or in a 1000-seat house. It's a luxury to be in a tiny space every once in a while and a rush to be on a giant stage every once in a while.”

Hard House Fun Space Stage Tiny Luxury Giants Seats

Author:Laurie Metcalf

“Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.”

Made Reason Would Be Born Race Progress Gratitude Deserve Tiny Endless Enlightened Links Lap Modernity Relays Relay Races

Book:Origins: A Memoir

Source: Origins: A Memoir

“With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.”

Knows Want Writing Trying Book Ideas War Felt Bits Imagination Understood Tiny Score Korean Korean War

Author:Linda Sue Park

“It's a big universe. To stay in one tiny place is doing a disservice to yourself.”

Bigs Universe Tiny Disservice

Author:Janelle Monae

“It's dizzying to think how huge the world is, or to realize how tiny you are”

Thinking World Realizing Huge Tiny

Author:Pedro Juan Gutierrez

“That's what does it-- that moment where you think you're lost, and then discover that you're not, that you've never really left. There's something that happens in that incredible tiny no-time, and that something is like the revelation of learning.”

Thinking Doe Moments Happens Lost Left Incredibles Tiny Revelations That Moment

Author:Steven Brust

“[...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab with pincers and rainbow shell, walked delicately ever sideways but getting nowhere, while the sun [...] rose higher in the sky its tassels dropping with flame threatening every moment to melt the precarious highway of glass. And the people: giant pathworks of colour with limbs missing and parts of their mind snipped off to fit them into the outline of the free pattern.”

“Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening, and perhaps using the throwaway details which the illustrator includes to add their own elements to the story.”

Children Book Stories Imagination Elements Happenings Add Details Tiny Clue Picture Books Illustrators Gleaning

Author:Philip Reeve

“I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.”

Has Beens Tiny Crafts Robotics Solar System

Author:Martin Rees

“My fingers curl through the holes in the wicker, through the wet grass beneath it, trying to hold tight to the sharp blades of the present. Somewhere in my brain a sinkhole is bubbling over, and each bubble contains a scene from a tiny sunken world ... I have never been the prophet of my own past before. It makes me wonder how the healthy dreamers can bear to sleep at all, if sleep means that you have to peer into that sinkhole by yourself. ... I had almost forgotten this occipital sorrow, the way you are so alone with the things you see in dreams.”

Ifs World Way Trying Mean Dream Past My Own Sleep Brain Wonder Bears Sorrow Healthy Scene Fingers Forgotten Tiny Holes Grass Prophet Dreamer Bubbles Wet Peers Blades Curls Sinkholes

Author:Karen Russell

“I've been dressing Renee on the red carpet for the past three years, ... I think she always looks great. She has the right proportion for my clothes. She has that tiny waist and she loves fashion.”

Thinking Years Looks Past Three Fashion Clothes Red Tiny Proportion Three Years Dressings Carpet Red Carpet Love Fashion

Author:Carolina Herrera

“If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.”

Ifs Stills Growing Land Car Size Connected Tiny Plot Yards Tomatoes Carrots Celery Basil

Author:Frances Mayes

“The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.”

Play Stories Running Universe Interesting Seeing Conditions Stage Creating Casts Tiny Experiments Laboratory Theatrical Imposing

Author:Marcus du Sautoy

“I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.”

Littles Ideas Done Bigs Rooms Stage New York Ordinary Theater Tiny Tied Lots Of Money Ordinary Life

Author:Garry Hynes

“When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small to detect with ordinary human senses.”

Humans Earth Space Ordinary Wave Tiny Senses

Author:Kip Thorne

“A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.”

Men May Life Is Quality He Man Tiny Chosen Quantity Insignificant Blink Of An Eye

Book:The Chosen

Source: The Chosen

“It's funny because looking back at my first contest, I was 15 and surfing the Haleiwa contest wearing this tiny bikini. I remember not even thinking twice about wearing it - I just thought it was normal.”

Thinking Firsts Remember Normal Tiny Looking Back Contests Surfing Bikinis

Author:Alana Blanchard

“A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to MIT and worked on bacteria because that's where people knew the most about these switches, how to control the genetics.”

People Bigs Beautiful Tree Machines Tiny Leafs Genetics Bacteria Mit Photosynthesis

Author:Cynthia Kenyon

“There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.”

Baby Tiny Pounds Power Over Others Moguls

Author:Stanley Bing

“I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.”

Guy Havens Dad Tiny Eras Teenager Creeks

Author:Jon Hamm

“If professional wrestling did not exist, could you come up with this idea? Could you envision the popularity of huge men in tiny bathing suits, pretending to fight?”

Ifs Men Ideas Fighting Huge Come Up Tiny Suits Pretending Wrestling Popularity Bathing Bathing Suits Professional Wrestling

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.”

Father House Water Grew Grew Up Bird Window Shoes Glasses Boxes Tiny Hospitals Plates Dishes Rags

Author:Patti Davis

“If I tell you my character has grey hair, you will not see her. If I tell you she has a tiny scar at the upper left corner of her lip from which protrudes one grey whisker—you will make up the rest of her face with absolute clarity. If I tell you my character is waiting in a car, you won’t be ‘caught,’ but if I tell you he pushes his fingers down in the crack of the car seat where the ancient leather has pulled away from the seat frame, and pulls up a small coin purse with a faded note in it—you will be mine.”

Source: Writing Alone and with Others

“That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of speciesists. Tie the label Homo sapiens even to a tiny piece of insensible embryonic tissue, and its life suddenly leaps to infinite, incomputable value.... Self-styled pro-lifers, and others that indulge in footling debates about exactly when in its development a foetus becomes human, exhibit the same discontinuous mentality. Human, to the discontinuous mind, is an absolutist concept. There can be no half measures. And from this flows much evil.”

“We consume everything like potato chips. In this environment, I suspect the cartoonist's connection with readers is likely to be superficial and fleeting, unless he taps into some fervent special interest niche. And that audience, almost by definition, will be tiny.”

Interest Audience Environment Special Reader Connections Definitions Tiny Suspects Superficial Fleeting Chips Potatoes Niche Special Interests Cartoonist Fervent Potato Chips

Author:Bill Watterson

“If you try to find your source, you are not going to find it in a tiny little particle that began with your parents commingling.”

Ifs Trying Littles Parent Source Tiny Particles

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these tiny little details into a cohesive thing.”

People Want Trying Littles Vision Tests Constant Details What You Want Tiny Steers

Author:Tom Hanks

“For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexibleorder gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hole them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stooping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving May Moments Hands Sound Chance Accepting Music Birth Musician Jazz Notes Leaving Tiny Holes Impression Intense Bitter Melody

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“When a house is tottering to its fall, The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part, One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads, And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.”

Lying Fall House Weakness Weight Structure Spread Tiny Vulnerability Cracks Strain

Author:Ovid

“Pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring, pulling off the elopement wedding ring, and holding them, clicking them in thumb and forefinger, the indent of twenty-five years, like a tiny rip leaving its mark.”

Years Five Mark Twenties Leaving Divorce Tiny Rings Fats Five Years Engagement Diamond Pulling Rip Thumbs Twenty Five Wedding Ring

Book:45 Mercy Street

Source: 45 Mercy Street

“I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.”

People Children Sometimes Parent Born Family Worry Too Much Tiny Confused Diamond Peas Pampering

Book:Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir

Source: Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir

“Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Doe Bigs Eye Baby Evolution Tiny Noses Little Things Surprising Most Amazing Big Eyes

Author:David Attenborough

“Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star.”

Stars Planets Skins Tiny Locals Dozen

Book:Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Source: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

“Watch the sun until it comes into your body and stays as a tiny sun. It will keep your face shining even in the coldest of winter.”

Body Faces Watches Sun Shining Winter Your Body Tiny Your Face

Author:Yoko Ono

“The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.”

Wells Has Beens Bigs Events Pages Gun Tiny Setting Settings Journalist Devoted Popping Rumble Big Events Hissing Firecracker

Book:Here at the New Yorker

Source: Here at the New Yorker

“Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.”

Wells Littles War Bigs Religion Politics Social History Blood Economic Tiny All Time Bloody Economic Systems

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt

“Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call "history" by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World historyonly comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions.”

World Mean Done History Deeds Tiny Significant Poetic Historic World History Posterity Spotlight Scholarly Depiction

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Two of the actors, Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom, have been caught between two landslides and are now trapped in a tiny town in the middle of the South Island. They have been taken in by a kindly woman who has offered them food and a bed. They were last reported to be cooking spaghetti and cracking into a bottle of red wine.”

Has Beens Two Lasts Actors Taken Middle Bed Red Towns Cooking Wine South Caught Tiny Islands Bottles Trapped Beans Sean Spaghetti Red Wine Orlando Landslides

Author:Peter Jackson

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