Little Bit Quotes - Page 36

• As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.

  Jonathan Coe

  Writing, Wife, Littles

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• I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

  Cathy Freeman

  Challenges, Age, Trying

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

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• My view is that climate changes have happened in the last 80 years, that is, the world has got a little bit warmer, although not as warm as it has been in Medieval times, or the Bronze Age.

  Piers Corbyn

  Bronze Medal, Views, Years

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• I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for me, though, is walking under a ladder. I've always felt like that's tempting fate. That's just throwing it right in their face. Check me out. I just walked under a ladder. What are you going to do about it?

  James Badge Dale

  Hockey, Fate, Thinking

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• I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball.

  Tim DeKay

  Baseball, School, Player

  "‘White Collar’ Star Tim DeKay On Directing, Playing Catch In Yankee Stadium And More". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2012.

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• Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know?

  Caroline Dhavernas

  Bored, Littles, Just Being

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• In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Reading, Ideas, Iraq

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. April 20, 2004.

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• I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

  Fred Durst

  Eye, Roots, People

  "Interview: Fred Durst on “The Longshots”". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. August 15, 2008.

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• I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know there's someone standing there to welcome you to the plane and I have to kind of get them to move a little bit so I can put my hand on the outside of the plane. It's not a natural thing to be up in the sky in a little metal tube.

  Hope Davis

  Moving, Hands, Sky

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• I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. You can be a little bit more quirky, you can have a little more humor. It doesn't get so dark and deep.

  James Dashner

  Book, Dark, Light

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• In philanthropy, many of us give a little bit and each year we give more and more to see what actually works and not just throw money out there and see if it's going to work. If the government did the same thing, fabulous.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Government, Years, Giving

  "Erin Burnett Outfront", www.cnn.com. April 16, 2012.

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• I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.

  Julie Delpy

  Humility, People, Littles

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• There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

  Sam Donaldson

  People, Ham, Littles

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• I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.

  Alice Eve

  California, Half, Littles

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• We always spend more time on the throwing events and a little bit more on the long jump. They're my weaker events - they don't come as naturally to me as running and jumping. I like the hurdles and the high-jump, I'm a springy, speedy athlete so those suit me.

  Jessica Ennis

  Running, Athlete, Jumping

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

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• I've always been a little bit more of a novel reader than a short story reader. I think the first books that made me want to be a writer were novels.

  Nell Freudenberger

  Book, Thinking, Stories

  "Off the Page" with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. December 12, 2007.

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• My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

  Roger Federer

  Dad, Tennis, Coaching

  Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. December 6, 2007.

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• All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

  Adam Gopnik

  Secret, Quality, Littles

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• I did babysit a little bit when I was young. I prefer babysitting for babies. I always loved babies. I was not as great with kids that wanted to be entertained and that wanted to talk.

  Ari Graynor

  Baby, Kids, Littles

  "Shades of Graynor". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 8, 2011.

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• I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.

  Emily Giffin

  Book, Cheesy, Littles

  "Book Corner: Emily Giffin's Latest Novel: Where We Belong". Interview with Kristin Buettner, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 9, 2012.

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• I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit provocative.

  Frida Giannini

  Dna, Needs, Want

  Interview with Nick Smith, www.gq.com.au. April 19, 2012.

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• I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.

  Len Goodman

  Kindness, Thinking, Littles

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• If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.

  Ed Gillespie

  People, Littles, States

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• It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Real, America, Littles

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• You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Character, Stories, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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