Chunks Quotes - Page 5

• Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.

  Colin McGinn

  Art, Technology, Brain

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• You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.

  Ha Jin

  Dog, Heart, Flesh

  FaceBook post by Ha Jin from Feb 17, 2017

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• I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Character, Events, Tweet

  Neil Gaiman‏ @neilhimself, twitter.com. February 4, 2009.

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• Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most excruciating, gruesome detail his imagination would allow. It turned out his imagination allowed quite a bit. He spent the rest of the day convincing himself--over and over--not to do it.

  Barry Lyga

  Grandmother, Imagination, Details

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• ... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Memories, Rap, Loss

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “American Psycho”, p.256, Vintage

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• The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an hour they swallow in three minutes gulping down their food like the [dog] under the table which when a chunk of meat is thrown down to it swallows it before you can say 'twice.' If you want a reform carry out the advice I have just given you. Dispense with your multitudinous dishes, and, depend upon it, you will do much towards preserving your families from sickness, disease and death.

  Brigham Young

  Dog, Men, Disease And Death

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• I wondered if kicking him in the head would make the whole explanation pop out of his mouth in one chunk.

  Ilona Andrews

  Kicking, Mouths, Pops

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.92, Penguin

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• But all three of them had had to lose things in order to gain other things. Will had lost his shell and his cool and his distance, and he felt scared and vulnerable, but he got to be with Rachel; and Fiona had lost a big chunk of Marcus, and she got to stay away from the casualty ward; and Marcus had lost himself, and got to walk home from school with his shoes on.

  Nick Hornby

  Distance, School, Home

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.232, Penguin

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• That was all part of giving someone a piece of your heart; they ended up taking a whole chunk of your mind and reserving it all for themselves.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Heart, Giving, Mind

  Cecelia Ahern (2007). “If You Could See Me Now”, Hyperion

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• I've set aside a nice chunk of my advertising revenue each month for giveaways, like a KitchenAid mixer. I like buying them for the audience, because without the audience I wouldn't have the blog or the revenue in the first place.

  Ree Drummond

  Nice, Each Month, Blogging

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• But I guess the nice thing about driving a car is that the physical act of driving itself occupies a good chunk of brain cells that otherwise would be giving you trouble overloading your thinking. New scenery continually erases what came before; memory is lost, shuffled, relabeled and forgotten. Gum is chewed; buttons are pushed; windows are lowered and opened. A fast moving car is the only place where you're legally allowed to not deal with your problems. It's enforced meditation and this is good.

  Douglas Coupland

  Memories, Nice, Moving

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• [...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Splendor, Easier

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• He stood and inhaled, then walked a few more feet, stooped, and prodded a chunk of rabbit fur. “I’m definitely thinking something with more body parts,” I said. “Like a head.” He gave a snort of a laugh. “It’s probably around here somewhere, but I suppose you want the parts attached, too.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Thinking, Feet, Laughing

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• Our brains seem to have the power to do one or the other - record and remember every detail, or chunk it to higher level concepts and forget the details. We can't seem to do both. The fact that you could not fly over a city and remember every detail is not something to worry about.

  Kevin Maney

  Cities, Worry, Brain

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Well probably the coolest show of that whole tour was in Germany. I had a chunk of material on [Adolf] Hitler, and I was worried about how they'd react, but they loved it.

  Bill Burr

  Germany, Worried, Shows

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• What the Affordable Care Act started was a change in the American health care system from paying for procedures to paying for outcomes, paying for health. Other nations have already made that move. We pay for procedures and we get the best procedures in the world and we get the most procedures in the world, and then we spend a huge chunk of our GDP on health care, but we don't have the best outcomes.

  Tim Kaine

  Moving, Gdp, Outcomes

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm always amazed by writers who say, "Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a little bit." I just need a real big chunk of time to sit down and focus. That's my process.

  Terence Winter

  Real, Focus, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• I went horseback riding and got a big chunk of horse manure kicked into my face. It has a way of slapping you right back into reality.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Horse, Reality, Riding

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• You have people saying two things that seem to contradict each other. One, that we live in a golden age of TV. The other, that television is dying. There's a reason for that. What we mean when we say it's dying is that it's already way past being fragmented into little chunks. Now it's being polarized into an aerosol mist.

  Dan Harmon

  Mean, Past, Two

  "EMMYS: 'Community's Dan Harmon". Interview with Diane Haithman, deadline.com. June 18, 2011.

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• While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Home, People, African American

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• I'd known the people at Rolling Stone for a while. I'd gone to them with a piece I'd done on Beirut for Vanity Fair that Vanity Fair didn't want to publish, because they said I was making fun of death... This was Tina Brown.But they paid me for it. So I've got this big chunk of a piece, and Rolling Stone liked it, but they thought it was a little dated. But then they called me back and asked me to do a similar piece about the Turks and Caicos Islands, where the whole government had been arrested for dope smuggling. That was fun.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, Dope, Islands

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She had never before been entrusted with fire. The torch spit sparks and sent chunks of flaming tar spinning into the air behind her as she bolted across the cosmos-the only body in the heavens who was not held to a strict elliptical path. Nobody stopped her. She was a comet. She did not know that she was not flying.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Air, Hands, Fire

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.80, A&C Black

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• I have lots of brothers and sisters, two of whom are younger than myself, so I rely on my phone, text messaging or e-mailing to stay in the loop and communicate when I'm away for big chunks of time.

  Devon Aoki

  Brother, Phones, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now that I'm gettin old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin but quit playin so hard.

  Muddy Waters

  Money, Needs, Quitting

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• There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present.

  Joseph Heller

  Yawning, Fallen, Knows

  Joseph Heller (1974). “Something Happened”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

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