Size Quotes - Page 19

• Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from the exact opposite perspective of all they’ve told me. Do you think that’s crazy? “No,” I said, shaking my head, “I’d guess your method works quite well.

  Haruki Murakami

  Crazy, Thinking, Opposites

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 25, 2014

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• The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken. I have never before had occasion to make the comparison, for never before today have I seen a head in a roasting pan.

  Mary Roach

  Cadavers, Weight, Today

  Mary Roach (2012). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.14, Penguin UK

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• 17. The self ended and the world began. They were of equal size, commensurate, one mirrored the other. 18. The riddle was: why couldn't we live in the mind. The answer was: the barrier of the earth intervened.

  Louise Glück

  Self, Mind, Answers

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• Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The growing size of that blank and ever-darkening past frightened me; it loomed beside me like a hole in the air and battened on scraps of my life I failed to claim. If one day I forgot to notice my life, and be damned grateful for it, the blank cave would suck me up entire.

  Annie Dillard

  Grateful, Past, Light

  "An American Childhood". Book by Annie Dillard, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

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• People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you.

  Miranda July

  Sexy, Distance, Mean

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

  Stephen King

  Mystery, Dark Tower, Gunslinger

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dull Days, Facts

  Letter to Deborah Webster, 25 Oct. 1958

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• Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Existence, Models, Esoteric Wisdom

  "Nature's God". Book by Robert Anton Wilson, 1988.

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• And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It as too big for me an would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweler make that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. IF I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Giving, Joy, Grandfather

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• There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.

  E. B. White

  New York, Passion, Night

  "In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers".

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• I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of the front door; and all that was left of the mobscene was the head of a whacking big fish, lying on the carpet and staring up at me in a rather austere sort of way, as if it wanted a written explanation and apology.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Lying, Cat, Apology

  P. G. Wodehouse (2016). “Expecting Jeeves”, p.34, Courier Dover Publications

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• Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

  Ariel Gore

  Heart, Fighting, Fists

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• And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Lakes, Tahoe, Wheat

  "The West Wing". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Power, Sight, Black

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.230, Hachette UK

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• The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.

  John Irving

  Dread, Gardener

  John Irving (2012). “A Widow For One Year”, p.156, Random House

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• If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

  Douglas Adams

  Philosophical, Thought Provoking, Life Is

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know how much of that killer instinct lurks in the darkness. I used to think the house-burning paranoia was the result of some upper-middle-class fear regarding the potential destruction of a half-million-dollar Westchester house the size of a matchbox. But then I realized the fear stemmed from something far less complex: we're not used to fire. Candles are a staple of the Judaic existence and, like many suburban residents before us, we're pretty bad Jews.

  Sloane Crosley

  Cat, Thinking, Fire

  Sloane Crosley (2008). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.15, Penguin

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• She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see paintwork. There were all different styles and sizes of lettering on the spines of the black, the red, the gray, the every-colored books. It was one of the most beautiful things Liesel Meminger had ever seen. With wonder, she smiled. That such a room existed!

  Markus Zusak

  Beautiful, Wall, Book

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.100, Random House

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• The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes—and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all directions in a fine pollen, carried by cold winds to blanket the town like dust, everywhere. Spores from that clock lodged in your flesh to wrinkle it, to grow bones to monstrous size, to burst feet from shoes like turnips. Oh, how that great machine…dispensed Time in blowing weathers.

  Ray Bradbury

  Feet, Wrinkles, Dust

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• As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Soul, Feelings

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• I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.

  Steven Wright

  Summer, People, Maps

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• Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are 'We're number two!

  David Sedaris

  Country, Queens, Two

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• and standing before me a bloodied bottle of Absolut in her hand, is Mrs. Allington, her pink jogging suit drenched, her chest heaving, her eyes filled with contempt as she stared down at Rachel's prone body. Mrs. Allington shakes her head. "I'm a size twelve," she says.

  Meg Cabot

  Eye, Hands, Twelve

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• Isn't it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing even though the Earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be room to bury anyone anymore?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Numbers, People, One Day

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a hundred alternative routes present themselves. I choose one, no sooner begin, than a hundred more appear. Every time I try to narrow down my intent I expand it, and yet those straits and canals still lead me to the open sea, and then I realize how vast it all is, this matter of the mind. I am confounded by the shining water and the size of the world.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Journey, Sea, Water

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.115, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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