Dots Quotes - Page 8

Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story

Esther Freud

Believe, Stories, Succeed

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New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too.

David Levithan

Odds, Order, Eight

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That dot covers all the places we've ever been. You could cut that piece of land out of the ground and sing it into this ocean and no one would even notice. I feel that fear again, the fear of my own size. 'Right. So?' 'So? So everything I've ever worried about or said or done, how can it possibly matter?' He shakes his head. 'It doesn't.' 'Of course it does,' I say, 'All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.

Veronica Roth

Ocean, Cutting, Land

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My take on the whole dot-com bubble was that a lot of people who wanted to make a lot of money got too excited and hyped up the commercial aspects of the Internet prematurely. I think the vision of the Internet as a democratizing medium - as everyone's printing press - is real. We got distracted from that by the mass hallucinations of the bubble.

Craig Newmark

Money, Business, Real

"CRAIGSLIST / On the record: Craig Newmark". San Francisco Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. August 15, 2004.

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Fear sucks. Because you never know when it will attack. Sometimes it sneaks up behind you, giggling like your best girlfriend from seventh grade. Then it whacks you on the back of the head, takes you straight to your knees before you realize what hit you. Other times you can see it coming, just a dot on the horizon, but you're like a canary in a cage. All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.

Jennifer Rardin

Girlfriend, Fear, Horizon

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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Carl Sagan

Humility, Thinking, Compassion

Carl Sagan (1994). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, Random House Incorporated

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I expect Europe's top-level domain, .eu, to become similarly as important as dot-com.

Viviane Reding

Europe, Important, Levels

"Europe Gets a Name in Cyberspace" by Derek Karikari, abcnews.go.com. April 7, 2006.

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We're not going to beat Barack Obama with some guy who has Swiss bank accounts, Cayman Island accounts, owns shares of Goldman Sachs while it forecloses on Florida and is himself a stockholder in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while he tries to think the rest of us are too stupid to put the dots together to understand what this is all about.... People matter more than Wall Street.

Newt Gingrich

Wall, Stupid, Thinking

"Obama wades into race, saying GOP candidates are 'wrong for America'" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2012.

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That eerie hissing you hear may well be the air beginning to seep out of the green energy bubble. The sound is similar to the pfffffft and sshhhhsssssp noises we heard in the early days of the dot-com bubble collapse or the subprime mortgage meltdown.

Terence Corcoran

Air, Eerie, Energy

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My life is a dot lost among thousands of other dots.

Yayoi Kusama

Life Is, Lost

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I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from? The desire to destroy myself? This last depression had scared me. It had come on so quickly, not like the gradual woolgathering in my brain I had known before.

Betsy Lerner

Depression, Brain, Desire

Betsy Lerner (2004). “Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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Her entire body quivered. "What is it about me that you're attracted to?" "For starters, the sexy underwear you put on beneath your clothes." "You've only seen my underwear once." "Twice," he said. "I looked down your top at the pier." "You did not." "Pink-and-white polka-dot bra." "Oh my God." "That's what I was thinking." -Mallory and Ty

Jill Shalvis

Sexy, Thinking, White

FaceBook post by Jill Shalvis from Jul 16, 2013

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When she looked at herself in her wedding photographs, Ammu felt the woman that looked back at her was someone else. A foolish jewelled bride. Her silk sunset-coloured sari shot with gold. Rings on every finger. White dots of sandalwood paste over her arched eye-brows. Looking at herself like this, Ammu's soft mouth would twist into a small, bitter smile at the memory - not of the wedding itself so much as the fact that she had permitted herself to be so painstakingly decorated before being led to the gallows. It seemed so absurd. So futile. Like polishing firewood.

Arundhati Roy

Memories, Sunset, Eye

Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.43, Penguin Books India

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She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.

Truman Capote

Eye, Dark, Glasses

Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.71, Vintage

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When we were small, Rose and I used to play a game called connect the dots. I loved it. I loved drawing a line from dot number 1 to dot number 2 and so on. Most of all, I loved the moment when the chaotic sprinkle of dots resolved itself into a picture. That's what stories do. They connect the random dots of life into a picture. But it's all an illusion. Just try to connect the dots of life. You'll end up with a lunatic scribble.

Franny Billingsley

Games, Play, Drawing

Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.45, Penguin

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Someone once told me that the finer points of devotion are about the size of a pinhole, and there are millions of them. And if you could connect each dot, then you’ve got a diagram of what you think you thought you knew, and if you’re willing to admit that you know nothing…you have the blueprint for a breakthrough.

Shane Koyczan

Thinking, Size, Devotion

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Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.

Sarah Dessen

Differences, Wish, Three

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.54, Penguin

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No moon, sun, diamond, hands — fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea. pine green, pink glass, eye, mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.

Frida Kahlo

Mother, Eye, Moon

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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.

Aimee Bender

Space, Lines, Ends

Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.28, Random House

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Parents will purchase the dot-com name for their baby. We have been aware of some instances where somebody didn't name their child a particular name because the dot-com wasn't available.

Bob Parsons

Baby, Children, Names

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Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti. And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millepedes - "with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other," says Billy Pilgrim.

Kurt Vonnegut

Baby, Stars, Two

Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death”

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Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need, instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door.

Benjamin Carson

Doors, Yellow, Keys

"Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence". Book by Ben Carson and Cecil Murphey, 1996.

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.. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'

Carl Sagan

Thinking, Blood, Rivers

Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.16, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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And, now, come to this spot Where the spotlight is hot And you'll see in the spotlight A Juggling Jott Who can juggle some stuff You might think he could not... Such as twenty-two question marks, Which is a lot. Also forty-four commas And, also, one dot! That's the kind of Circus McGurkus I've got!

Dr. Seuss

Thinking, Two, Twenties

Dr. Seuss (1956). “If I Ran the Circus”, Random House Books for Young Readers

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We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange. In today's digital online world, those who don't share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.

Alan Bersin

Country, Data, Information Sharing

Source: www.salon.com

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