Bigs Quotes - Page 11

• ...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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• 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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• [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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• What's the big deal with France? How come everyone wants to go there? Let me tell you about France. Their music sucks. Their movies suck. Their berets suck. Their croissants are pretty good, but the place overall still sucks.My family went there once on the way to visit Dad's homeland family. EuroDisney. Need I say more?

  David Levithan

  Dad, Needs, Want

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2007). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.117, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

  Glen Cook

  Suffering, Spirit

  Glen Cook (2008). “The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company”, p.35, Macmillan

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• Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

  Cecelia Ahern

  Wise, Secret, Age

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• So you say, with your shiny hair and pouty lips - and those breasts - just wait till you start dropping whelps, they'll be at your ankles one day, big as they are - not the whelps, the breasts. The whelps will be in your hair - no, not the shiny hair on your head, well, yes, that hair, but only as a manner of speech.

  Steven Erikson

  Hair, Waiting, One Day

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• His heart was simply to big for his body.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Heart, Body

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• I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'

  Rodman Philbrick

  Heart, Body, Medical

  Rodman Philbrick (2013). “Freak The Mighty”, p.149, Scholastic Inc.

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• I wasn't going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I'd feel ashamed, which meant I'd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldn't get out of bed, which led to the ultimate thing—homelessness. If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away.

  Ned Vizzini

  Long, People, Bed

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• You think he left a big flashing arrow pointing to a filing cabinet labeled 'Evidence Here!'? He's a Stray, Ethan, not Wile E. Coyote!

  Rachel Vincent

  Thinking, Filing Cabinet, Arrows

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “Prey”, p.148, MIRA

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• The phone rang, picked up, and the same male voice announced, “Chris Powers." "Hey there, Chris. Are you aware it's a felony to make threats over the phone?" To give Powers his fair due, he got over his shock within a split second. “Try it, asshole. I dare you. My lawyers will have you for lunch.” He clicked off again. I did what any red-blooded American male would do. I called my big, ex-cop ex-boyfriend.

  Josh Lanyon

  Ex Boyfriend, Phones, Voice

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• One afternoon a girl walked by in a bikini and my cousin Janet scoffed, “Look at the hips on her.” I panicked. What about the hips? Were they too big? Too small? What were my hips? I didn’t know hips could be a problem. I thought there was just fat or skinny. This was how I found out that there are an infinite number of things that can be “incorrect” on a woman’s body.

  Tina Fey

  Girl, Cousin, Numbers

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• No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother.

  Kristin Hannah

  Mother, Pain, Loss

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.117, Ballantine Books

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• My money's on the big Indian,' someone was saying. I peeked up to see that Tyler, Mike, Austin and Ben had there heads bent together, deep in conversation. 'Yeah,' Mike whispered. 'Did you see the size of that Jacob kid? I think he could take Cullen down.' Mike seemed pleased by the idea.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Kids, Thinking, Ideas

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Eclipse”, p.59, Hachette UK

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• I turned over, and those big hands got to work on my back. I stifled a whimper in the pillow, because Marco's idea of a massage bore no resemblance whatsoever to the relaxing spa variety. There was no lavender oil, no soothing music, no hot towels. Just an all-out assault on cramped muscles, until they cowered in surrender and turned to Jell-O.

  Karen Chance

  Hands, Ideas, Oil

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.1832, Penguin

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