Little Bit Quotes - Page 33

• How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Rags, Littles, Fence

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The let-go of the last little bit is the biggest because, in that, there is no return.

  John de Ruiter

  Letting Go, Littles, Lasts

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• It's two seasons since I raced in Sepang and I'm looking forward to it now. It's a track where you have a little bit of everything - it's hard to ride, it's hot, there are fast and slow corners, hard braking, long straights and everybody has references from the tests.
  Nevertheless, we need to wait to see on Friday what the temperature and track conditions are like to understand how the tyres will work, because it's normally very slippery. I'm really enjoying racing at the moment and I want to continue like this, pushing the maximum from our side without thinking about the others.

  Dani Pedrosa

  Friday, Thinking, Two

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• I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

  Adam Savage

  Laughing, Littles, Make You Laugh

  "'The Question Is More Complicated Than The Answer': Making 'Mythbusters'". Interview with Linda Holmes, www.npr.org. June 15, 2010.

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• If you do a little bit of looking at books with your children and inspire them to be curious about the pictures and ... what the word means, but don't get into very structured systematic teaching at too early an age, and you also interact emotionally and have fun with pretend play ... then you have the best of both worlds.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, Fun, Book

  "How to boost babies' brain power", www.cnn.com. November 14, 2002.

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• I get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Artist, Sick, Bored

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• I don't know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliché to carry around, because people don't consider stand-ups really actors.

  Jim Gaffigan

  People, Actors, Littles

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 11, 2008.

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• I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.

  John Green

  Nice, Writing, Littles

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• What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.

  Harrison Ford

  Morning, Citizens, News

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• I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.

  Nolan Bushnell

  School, Class, Order

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• It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit.

  John Denver

  Heart, Littles, Steps

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• I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.

  Stephen Dunn

  Thinking, Parent, Littles

  "Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Stephen Dunn". "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. April 26, 2001.

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• My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.

  Joe Namath

  Philosophy, Trying, Different

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• Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.

  David Fincher

  Hands, Medicine, Littles

  "The Curious Case of David Fincher". Interview with Brian Mockenhaupt, www.esquire.com. March 1, 2007.

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• One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Order, Finishing, Littles

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• I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Kids, Play, Piano

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• Humor is a bit like Mary Poppins' sugar-it helps the medicine go down. A little bit of humor allows people to think about very difficult subjects.

  James Fadiman

  Laughter, Thinking, Medicine

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• We are, in a certain way, defined as much by our potential as by its expression. There is a great difference between an acorn and a little bit of wood carved into an acorn shape, a difference not always readily apparent to the naked eye. The difference is there even if the acorn never has the opportunity to plant itself and become an oak. Remembering its potential changes the way in which we think of the acorn and react to it. How we value it. If an acorn were conscious, knowing its potential would change the way that it might think and feel about itself.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Eye, Opportunity, Thinking

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• As long as her hands can move a little bit and reach out to those who come to Her, Amma will continue giving darshan.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Moving, Hands, Long

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• When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of life, or the story takes a turn that you don't expect ... With me that happens a lot because I don't outline, I just have a vague notion. So it's always felt like less of a made thing and more of a found thing. That's exciting. That's a thrill.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Character, Tasks

  "Stephen King on the Creative Process, the State of Fiction, and More". Interview with James Parker, www.theatlantic.com. April 12, 2011.

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• Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

  Jean Anouilh

  Fighting, Men, Order

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• In the sago palms, you'll often find sago beetles which are about the size of your little finger. The Karowai put those on the fire until they're crispy and eat them. They taste a little bit like creamy snails. But compared to sago, the sago beetle is really pretty good.

  Tim Cahill

  Fire, Littles, Taste

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• I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know a little bit about how to help people raise their kids and what to do when they get sick. When a war happens, I just hope it gets over with quickly so that how we take care of children becomes more important again.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Children, Military, War

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• If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit.

  Kevin Nealon

  People, Littles, Problem

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• As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

  Kevin Nealon

  Comedian, Musician, Littles

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