Bigger Quotes - Page 10

• I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones... the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Giants, Half

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• Drink it,” I told her. “It’s good for what ails you. Caffeine and sugar. I don’t drink it, so I ran over to your house and stole the expensive stuff in your freezer. It shouldn’t be that bad. Samuel told me to make it strong and pour sugar into it. It should taste sort of like bitter syrup.” She gave me a smile smile, then a bigger one, and plugged her nose before she drank it down in one gulp. “Next time," she said in a hoarse voice, “I make the coffee.

  Patricia Briggs

  Strong, Coffee, Voice

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.193, Penguin

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• My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Self, Transcendence

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• In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.

  Sarah Dessen

  Firsts, World, Hours

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.156, Penguin

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• Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's.

  J. K. Rowling

  Powerful, People, Use

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• Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.

  Deb Caletti

  Depth, World, Way

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get a bigger gun.

  Steig Larsson

  Attitude, Fighting, Gun

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• I am bigger than the box I'm in.

  Rachel Cohn

  Boxes

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.6, Egmont UK

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• Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn't, family that wasn't family but was, halves becoming whole, wholes splitting into two; it was possible to lack whole, honest love and connection from family in lead roles, yet to be filled to abundance by the unexpected supporting players.

  Deb Caletti

  Player, Two, Becoming

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above expectation. People like Iggy, Lou Reed, Jerry Lee Lewis, Black Sabbath, Nick Cave, Hubert Selby Jr, Billy Gibbons, Al Pacino, John Lee Hooker, James Brown, Johnny Cash etc. have been really great to me. What strikes me is most of the time, the bigger the celeb/legend, the more polite and cool they are. It's the insecure ones who treat you like they're doing you a favor by shaking your hand.

  Henry Rollins

  Insecure, Artist, Hands

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• We’re bound by chains of love, but they don’t weigh us down. Instead, they allow us to be bigger and better than we are.

  Ann Aguirre

  Bigger And Better, Chains, Bounds

  Ann Aguirre (2010). “Killbox”, p.29, Penguin

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• And my piece of advice is...don't flirt with any of the female instructors. They all have access to weapons bigger than yours.

  Simone Elkeles

  Flirting, Advice, Female

  Simone Elkeles (2010). “How to Ruin a Summer Vacation”, p.70, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?

  Terry Pratchett

  Truth, Food, Beer

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• I lift my arm out of the water. It's a log. Put it back under and it blows up even bigger. People see the log and call it a twig. They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs. Nobody can make it stop.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Eye, Blow, People

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.150, Penguin

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• Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Our World, Whole

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• He'd assumed that you went to school because you had to learn things, starting off with the easy stuff and moving on to the bigger issues, and once you'd learned them that was it, the way ahead opened up and thereafter life was simple and straightforward. What a joke. The older he got, the more complicated and obscure everything became.

  Mary Lawson

  Moving, School, Simple

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• Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

  August Wilson

  Belief, Disbelief, Belief In Yourself

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• You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Winning, Race, People

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

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• I'm not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I've wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Wine, Complicated, Truth Is

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.95, St. Martin's Press

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• I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Eye, Wind, Understanding

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• I might be confused sometimes in my head but it is not something you need to talk about. Before you can talk you have to line it all up in order and I had rather just let it swirl around until I am too tired to think. You just let the motion in your head wear you out. Never think about it. You just make a bigger mess that way.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Confused, Tired, Thinking

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• Last week we went to the museum. A whole whale is hanging from the ceiling. Bigger than big! OK, have you seen a Volkswagon car that's like a bug? Um huh, you know what I'm talking about. That's how big the heart of a blue whale is. I know it's not possible, but if that heart was in me, could I love more?...I would like to.

  Sapphire

  Heart, Museums, Blue

  Sapphire (1996). “Push: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves.

  Teresa Medeiros

  Men, Grace, Fool

  Teresa Medeiros (2008). “The Bride and the Beast”, p.311, Bantam

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• When you set down the path to create art, whatever sort of art it is, understand that the path is neither short not easy. That means you must determine if the route is worth the effort. If it's not, dream bigger.

  Seth Godin

  Dream, Art, Mean

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• The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the crime and the violence and the little shocks of good that crawled out from underneath the everyday.

  Colum McCann

  Cities, Everyday, Littles

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.214, Bloomsbury Publishing

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