Bits Quotes

• I'm a bit of a tomboy.

  Miley Cyrus

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• O.K." "Gee I'm glad." "Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side I could heave it all in the river." "You'll love it, Frank. We'll get a place up in the mountains, where it's cool, and then, after I get my act ready, we can go all over the world with it. Go as we please, do as we please, and have plenty of money to spend. Have you got a little bit of gypsy in you?" "Gypsy? I had rings in my ears when I was born.

  James M. Cain

  Dog, Beer, Rivers

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• Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Example, News, Littles

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• I kind of just lost track of laps. I couldn't hear a split. It was just so loud in here everyone was going nuts. I sort of felt like I was a little tired and I said, the people in front of me seem like they are falling off the lead pack a little bit. I should probably make a move. I hear ding, ding, ding, ding and I thought "oh crap! I've really got to go, I've got a lot left.

  Will Leer

  Moving, Fall, Tired

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• It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.

  Damon Hill

  Sports, Athlete, Years

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• Production was what I always wanted to do, even when I was skating. I'm a bit of a sponge. When I was going around competing I was always asking, 'What does that light do?' If you want to be successful, you have to understand what people are doing around you.

  Robin Cousins

  Athlete, Successful, Light

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• It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Art, Cake

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• We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

  Mary Antin

  Mom, Mother, Spiritual

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney (1983). “St Mawr and Other Stories”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

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• Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

  Joseph Epstein

  Reading, Mean, Thoughtful

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. August 31, 2003.

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• It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects himself without the least bit of delay, his mistakes will disappear.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Mistake, War, Delay

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.42, Kodansha International

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• There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

  H. Rap Brown

  Pregnancy, Second Chance, Class

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• A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Clever, Lust, Skins

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• We've got a nation of people who have one eye looking out for the next speed camera, another looking for a speed limit sign and another looking at the speedometer - which is a bit of a shame, when you only have two eyes.

  Paul Smith

  Clever, Eye, Two

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• As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.

  Leroy Chiao

  Congratulations, Littles, Responsible

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• I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.

  Prince Charles

  Determination, Power, Littles

  "Rita Cosby Live & Direct", www.nbcnews.com. October 31, 2005.

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• But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Suicide, Suicidal, Hands

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• Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.

  Anderson Cooper

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• Totally uneventful. It was a very successful first flight. To be honest, it was a little bit boring.

  Fernando Alonso

  Airplane, Successful, Littles

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• I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Elephants, Feet

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• I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Thinking, Failing

  Quoted in Michael Hobbs The Golf Quotation Book (1992).

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• You don't really see a muscle as a part of you, in a way. You see it as a thing. You look at it as a thing and you say well this thing has to be built a little longer, the bicep has to be longer; or the tricep has to be thicker here in the elbow area. And you look at it and it doesn't even seem to belong to you. Like a sculpture. Then after looking at it a sculptor goes in with his thing and works a little bit, and you do maybe then some extra forced reps to get this lower part out. You form it. Just like a sculpture.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Littles

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• Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in your stomach and get the juices flowing.

  Taryne Mowatt

  Inspirational, Softball, Butterfly

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• Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.

  Steffi Graf

  Player, Tennis, Wish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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