Bigs Quotes - Page 11

It’s a fun playtime. Please, don’t kill it with big words.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fun, Please, Playtime

"Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

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He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. "Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war?" "Beaver," Peter told him. "I don't care if it is Alaska, you don't have beavers big enough to sound like that.

Nora Roberts

War, Alaska, Volcanoes

Nora Roberts (2004). “Northern Lights”, p.45, Penguin

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No guy in his right mind would ever choose me when there are people like Hana in the world: It would be like settling for a stale cookie when what you really want is a big bowl of ice cream, whipped cream and cherries and chocolate sprinkles included.

Lauren Oliver

Ice Cream, People, Guy

Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.21, Harper Collins

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...life's big. If you can't fix it, give it a spin.

Mark Z. Danielewski

Giving, Ifs

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At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a Chinaman in Shanghai. His ears were so big he could use them for a raincoat. When it rained, he just crept in under his ears and was warm and snug as could be. Not that the ears had such a rattling good time of it, you understand. If it was specially bad weather, he'd invite friends and acquaintances to pitch camp under his ears too. There they sat, singing their sorrowful songs while it poured down outside.

Astrid Lindgren

Country, Song, Weather

Astrid Lindgren (2015). “Pippi Longstocking”, p.33, Oxford University Press - Children

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Shouts of dismay rose as the red flesh splattered against the table. It was only a tomato, but one would think I was pulping a decaying heart by the noise the big, strong FIB officers were making.

Kim Harrison

Strong, Heart, Thinking

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Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same way as I exist?" "You do not exist.

George Orwell

Brother, Party, Doe

George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.296, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.

Benjamin Carson

Knowledge, Learning, Helping Others

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That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams. The girls of 1929.

Anna Godbersen

Girl, Dream, Eye

Anna Godbersen (2010). “Bright Young Things”, p.3, Harper Collins

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I think what it is is, if you're in school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? You think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And it's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you;re not funny then you're not...anything

David Nicholls

Running, Nice, Stupid

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And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.

Gregory David Roberts

Party, Hands, Political

Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.523, Hachette UK

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[on the future of hand-drawn animation] I'm actually not that worried. I wouldn't give up on it completely. Once in a while there are strange, rich people who like to invest in odd things. You're going to have people in the corners of garages making cartoons to please themselves. And I'm more interested in those people than I am in big business.

Hayao Miyazaki

Giving Up, Hands, People

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

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Your master plan has holes big enough to drive a truck through.

Ilona Andrews

Truck, Enough, Holes

Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.193, Penguin

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A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone from Des Moines, with an artist's impression of the bun; how Elvis Presley was recently sighted working in a Burger Lord in Des Moines; how listening to Elvis records cured a Des Moines housewife's cancer; how the spate of werewolves infesting the Midwest are the offspring of noble pioneer women raped by Bigfoot; and that Elvis was taken by Space Aliens in 1976 because he was too good for this world. Remarkably, one of these stories is indeed true.

Neil Gaiman

Jesus, Cancer, Taken

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I'm not big on regret. It's not on my schedule.

Joss Whedon

Regret, Schedules

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Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.

Christopher McDougall

Running, Nike, Epidemics

Christopher McDougall (2009). “Born to Run”, p.179, Vintage

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Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better suited than the little people are to manage the little people's lives. They think they have the one true vision, the ability to solve all the moral dilemmas of the century. They prefer big government because that is the first step to totalitarianism, toward unquestioned rule by the elite. And of course they see themselves as the elite.

Dean Koontz

Running, Believe, Intelligent

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You're a big one,[...] a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him.

Neil Gaiman

Stupid, Son, Men

Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.93, Hachette UK

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They're spreading out. Look unaware and sweet and innocent. It's a little hard to look innocent when I'm as big as a house.

Christine Feehan

Sweet, House, Looks

Christine Feehan (2010). “Ruthless Game”, p.78, Penguin

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A cold realisation washed over me. From now on, my master would not always be there to protect and counsel me. 'This is big. Too big,' I said. 'What do I do?' 'You follow your destiny,' Ryoko said. 'As we all do. With honour and courage.

Alison Goodman

Destiny, Cold, Masters

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That's a big love letter," she says, squinting. I know what I'm going to say and for a moment I wish there was a film crew documenting my day-to-day life: "I've got a big heart," I say.

Joe Dunthorne

Heart, Squinting, Wish

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In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together.

Anne Frank

Children, Pain, War

FaceBook post by Anne Frank from May 10, 2015

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Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who I wanted to be at last a woman in the old style sitting stout thighs apart under a big skirt grandchild sliding on off my lap a pleasant summer perspiration that's my old man across the yard he's talking to the meter reader he's telling him the world's sad story how electricity is oil or uranium and so forth I tell my grandson run over to your grandpa ask him to sit beside me for a minute I am suddenly exhausted by my desire to kiss his sweet explaining lips.

Grace Paley

Summer, Running, Sweet

Grace Paley (2016). “Begin Again: Poems by Gracey Paley”, p.199, Hachette UK

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On the other hand, she never looked as -big- as she did at that moment. "What?" Rose demanded, glaring up at him. The warning signal flashed bright red in Kane's head. Telling a woman she was as big as a beach ball wouldn't win any points. How did one describe how she looked? A basketball? Volleyball? He studied her furious little face. Yeah. He was in big trouble no matter what he said. Description was out of the question. He needed diplomacy, something that flew out of the window when he was near her and she said the words like contractions.

Christine Feehan

Basketball, Volleyball, Beach

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And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his shirt(distressingly unbuttoned)hung over his trousers in sloppy fashion. All very out of charactar: Mandrake was normally defined by his rigid self-control. Somthing seemed to have stripped all that away. Well, the poor lad was emotionally brittle.He needed sympathetic handling. "You're a mess," I sneered "You've lost it big time. What's happened? All the guilt and self-loathing suddenly get to you? It can't just be that someone else called me, surly?

Jonathan Stroud

Fashion, Eye, Self

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