Bigs Quotes - Page 25

• If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

  Rebecca Stead

  Water, Tears, Three

  Rebecca Stead (2012). “Liar & Spy”, p.38, Wendy Lamb Books

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• The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big for the esophagus. It keeps up a sort of involuntary interior humming in him, like a live beetle. His cranium is a dome full of reverberations. The hollows of his very bones are as whispering galleries. He is afraid to speak loud, lest he be stunned; like the man in the bass drum.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Voice, Whispering

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.21

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• Dream big while you sleep, and even bigger when you're awake.

  Jared Leto

  Dream, Sleep, Bigger

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• You're such a big BABY. So cry me a river, build yourself a bridge, and GET OVER IT

  Rachel Renée Russell

  Baby, Bridges, Rivers

  Rachel Renée Russell (2010). “Dork Diaries 2: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I hear in the big city, girls dress up like sexy witches and sexy vampires and sexy Easter bunnies, and go to parties where they do all sorts of scandalous things," Kami said. "Luckily you and me, we got to walk around our town looking at our neighbours' gardens and remarking 'My, that's a good-looking scarecrow' to each other. I guess this is why our natures are so beautiful and unspoilt.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Beautiful, Girl, Sexy

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold (The Lynburn Legacy Book 2)”, p.12, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I had a crush on Percy," Nico spat. "That's the truth. That's the big secret.

  Rick Riordan

  Crush, Secret, Spats

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• You take this cold, remarkable, difficult, dangerous, borderline psychopath man, and you wonder what might have happened to him had he not met his best friend, a friend that no one would have put him with, this solid, dependable, brave, big-hearted war hero. I think people fall in love, not with Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson, but with their friendship. I think it is the most famous friendship in fiction, without a doubt.

  Steven Moffat

  Friendship, Falling In Love, War

  "The Ax Interview: Showrunners Steven Moffat And Mark Gatiss On ‘Sherlock’ And ‘Doctor Who’". Interview with Abbie Bernstein, www.assignmentx.com. November 12, 2010.

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• That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

  David Levithan

  Hurt, Monsters, Pouring

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.35, Egmont UK

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• You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don't wait to react to the immediate problem. Plan ahead. Look at the big picture and you won't ever have to deal with that problem. Better to save yourself from a major catastrophe than drag your feet over a bunch of little inconveniences.

  Richelle Mead

  Feet, Waiting, Alchemist

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.74, Penguin

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• An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kindness, Kissing, Littles

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.613, Bantam

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• We weren't friends[...]We were more like jigsaw pieces, each of us part of the same big picture. There are people like this wherever you go. They are part of the same mystery as you are, but you can't quite tell how you fit together. The world is a puzzle, and we can't solve it alone.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Together, Pieces

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• Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even be remembered. We all know we die. We all know the world is too big for us to be significant. So all we have is the hope of being seen, or heard, even for a moment.

  Dave Eggers

  People, World, Might

  "The Circle". Book by Dave Eggers, October 8, 2013.

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• But it's a big ocean. It's an even bigger world. And maybe we've gotten as close as we're supposed to get.

  Gayle Forman

  Ocean, World, Bigger

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Year”, p.71, Penguin

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• Nico di Angelo ran up to me with a big grin on his face. "Percy, this is awesome!" His blue-feathered bronze helmet was falling in his eyes, and his breastplate was about six sizes too big. I wondered if there was any way I'd looked that ridiculous when I'd first arrived.

  Rick Riordan

  Fall, Eye, Blue

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

  Christian D. Larson

  Spiritual, Anger, Optimism

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• I've always said the shoes must never tell the foot how big to be.

  Rick Warren

  Positive, Shoes, Feet

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• I'm a 'what if' person. I have always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience. I have taken blows. I have had high moments. But I don't think the blows have ever hardened me. My enthusiasms are still big.

  Kevin Costner

  Positive, Taken, Blow

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• Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now.

  Knute Rockne

  Positive, Play, Victory

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• One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Time, Nice, Thinking

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain, unless one can. do big things.

  Herbert Butterfield

  Time, Attitude, Thinking

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• The early years were more about learning than about acting.
  I had to carry on my father's work, which was a big challenge.

  Azim Premji

  Inspirational, Business, Father

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• So often, we blame other people when, really, the problem is right down in here. I'm not happy. I don't know what's wrong. If I just had another job, I could be happy. If I just get married, I would be happy. Well if I just wasn't married, I would be happy. Well, if I just had some kids, I'll be happy. I'll be happy when these kids finally grow up and get out of here. If I had a bigger house, I would be happy. Well, I got a big house. Now if I just had a maid to clean, I'd be happy. Well, now if I just had a maid I could get along with better, I'd be happy.

  Joyce Meyer

  Happiness, Jobs, Growing Up

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.

  Eliot Wigginton

  Motivational, Success, Business

  Eliot Wigginton (1986). “Sometimes a Shining Moment: The Foxfire Experience”, Doubleday

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• In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Business, Ideas, Labs

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Hard Work, Thinking

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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