Chunks Quotes - Page 6

You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.

William Anders

Baseball, Glowing, Flames

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When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can't get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can.

Robert Penn Warren

Mother, Father, Trying

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My business life takes a big chunk of time, but I still put exercise in my schedule. I'm up at 5 A.M. and get up and stretch and go for a run in Runyon Canyon with all five of my dogs.

Cesar Millan

Running, Dog, Exercise

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The French got enough from the Germans to save them from starvation; but many a woman sold herself for a loaf or a chunk of sausage.

Ernst Toller

Sausage, Enough, Starvation

Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”

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THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is like True Detective as: we shamelessly rip off huge chunks of stuff from Alan Moore.

Kieron Gillen

Rip, Wicked, Stuff

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Real cars were made here in America: Fords, Chevys, Plymouths. These were large chunks of Detroit iron - cars that had the size, weight, and handling characteristics of aircraft carriers but worse fuel efficiency.

Dave Barry

Funny, Real, Humorous

Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.8, Ballantine Books

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There are huge creative advantages in having huge chunks of time when no one can find you. Emails and phones have diluted the experience of travel.

Pete McCarthy

Phones, Creative, Email

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Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story – what happens before the novel opens – is especially troublesome. How can we give the essentials and avoid a mere information drop?
Use dialogue. First, create a tension-filled scene, usually between two characters. Get them arguing, confronting each other. Then you can have the information appear in the natural course of things.

James Scott Bell

Struggle, Writing, Character

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Sure, there's a chunk of African-Americans out there who associate the Republican Party with racism, frankly particularly in the Deep South. It's an unfair perception, but it exists. Over a period time, that perception will die away if Republicans are focusing on issues that happen to impact African-Americans.

Artur Davis

Party, Impact, Issues

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Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.

Edwidge Danticat

Fighting, Army, America

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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.

Al Yankovic

Night, Reality, Dinner

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First comes the cash, then comes the ass, then come big blunts with chunks of hash.

The Notorious B.I.G.

Alcohol, Drug, Cash

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I try and live my life in bite-size chunks.

Craig Ferguson

Trying, Size, Living My Life

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Sometimes you have to be a bad person to save yourself, and it takes a little chunk out of your soul, but you do it anyway.

Carolyn Crane

Soul, Littles, Sometimes

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Hospitality has never been about having House Beautiful with perfectly coordinated accessories and the most up-to-date equipment, nor is it dependent upon having large chunks of leisure time and a big entertainment budget to spend, nor does it require special training in the culinary arts or event planning. Hospitality is about a heart for service, the creativity to stretch whatever we do have available, and the energy to give the time necessary to add a flourish to the ordinary events of life.

Dorothy Kelley Patterson

Beautiful, Art, Creativity

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As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol.

Barack Obama

Weed, Kids, Thinking

"Obama: Marijuana no more dangerous than alcohol", www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2014.

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I think to actually be an Olympian to me means that you've trained most of your life, or you've dedicated most of your life or a big chunk of your life into doing something that you believe that you can accomplish.

Bryan Clay

Believe, Mean, Thinking

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Sometimes we get frustrated ourselves and decide it's time to download a big chunk of mythology. And then the audience says, 'I find this confusing and alienating and too weird.' So then we pull back, and they say, 'You're not giving us enough'.

Damon Lindelof

Giving, Confusing, Frustrated

"Murtzcellanious: Murtz Jaffer Talks To Lost Co-Creator Damon Lindelof". Interview with Murtz Jaffer, insidepulse.com. November 12, 2005.

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Although they only give gold medals in the field of athletics, I encourage everyone to look into themselves and find their own personal dream, whatever that may be - sports, medicine, law, business, music, writing, whatever. The same principles apply. Turn your dream into a goal and learn how to attack that goal systematically. Break it into bite-size chunks that seem possible, and then don't give up. Just keep plugging away.

John Naber

Sports, Dream, Giving Up

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For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones, or acted out with wax dummies and period furniture. It takes place in glass bubbles filled with water and chunks of plastic snow; it’s stamped on souvenir pencils and summarized in reprint newspapers. History nowadays is recorded in memorabilia. If you can’t purchase a shopping bag that alludes to something, people won’t believe it ever happened.

Elizabeth McCracken

Believe, Shopping, Glasses

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Golf is the only game that pits the player against an opponent, the weather, the minutest details of a large chunk of local topography and his own nervous system, all at the same time.

Mike Seabrook

Golf, Player, Games

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We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.

Mitchell Baker

Broken Heart, People, Foundation

"Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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It is more than twenty years since we left the city. This is a serious chunk of time, longer than the years we spent living there. Yet we still think of Jerusalem as our home. Not home in the sense of the place that you conduct your daily life or constantly return to. In fact, Jerusalem is our home almost against our wills. It is our home because it defines us, whether we like it or not.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Home, Thinking, Years

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And when our sun explodes and we are all destroyed, we'll be rocks and chunks of I am not sure what, and maybe we'll rain down on somewhere else.

Joey Comeau

Rain, Rocks, Somewhere Else

Joey Comeau (2012). “The Complete Lockpick Pornography”, p.116, ECW Press

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A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.

Henry A. Kissinger

Coal, Pressure, Jewelry

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