Size Quotes - Page 21

• Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.

  Nigel Slater

  Light, Kitchen

  "Not Roquette Science". www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2005.

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• You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.

  Salman Rushdie

  Judging, Injury, Holes

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• If you are a woman, if you are a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.

  Margaret Cho

  Integrity, Gay, Bisexual

  "Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O". TV Special, June 13, 2002.

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• No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Wall, Hair, Smell

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

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• YOU have no room to laugh, that's all. I'm not doing any worse with Boovish than you did with English.' Get off of the car,' J.Lo huffed. 'I am an English superstar.' Uh-uh. There's no comparison. 'Gratuity' in written Boovish has seventeen different bubbles that all have to be the right size and in the right place. 'J.Lo' in written English only has three letters, and you still spelled it 'M-smiley face-pound sign.

  Adam Rex

  Laughing, Car, Rooms

  Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.178, A&C Black

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• He had never really speculated about this before, since demons came in all shapes and sizes. Indeed, some of them came in more than one shape or size all by themselves, such as O'Dear, the Demon of People Who Look in Mirrors and Think They're Overweight, and his twin, O'Really, the Demon of People Who Look in Mirrors and Think They're Slim When They're Not.

  John Connolly

  Thinking, Mirrors, People

  John Connolly (2010). “The Gates: A Samuel Johnson Tale”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s the size-doesn’t-matter-except-in-my-case problem, the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem…and what do women have to worry about? A handful of cellulite? Join the club. A spot of I-wonder-how-I-rank? Ditto.

  Nick Hornby

  Men, Worry, Looks

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• Yeah, size is no guarantee of power,” said George. “Look at Ginny.” “What d’you mean?” said Harry. “You’ve never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you?

  J. K. Rowling

  Mean, Receiving, Bats

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• I stopped wanting to float away from my life, because in the end my life was all I had. I'd walk the Fairmont campus and look up to the sky and I wouldn't see myself drifting off like some lost balloon. Instead I saw the size of the world and found comfort in its hugeness. I'd think back to those times when I felt like everything was closing in on me, those times when I thought I was stuck, and I realized that I was wrong. There is always hope. The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go.

  Nick Burd

  Thinking, Drifting Off, Somewhere Else

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• Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were or ever thought They would be. Ever. Their lives have a size and a shape now. Estha has his and Rahel hers. Edges, Borders, Boundaries, Brinks and Limits have appeared like a team of trolls on their separate horizons. Short creatures with long shadows, patrolling the Blurry End. Gentle half-moons have gathered under their eyes and they are as old as Ammu was when she died.

  Arundhati Roy

  Team, Eye, Moon

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.3, Penguin Books India

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• No Difference Small as a peanut, Big as a giant, We're all the same size When we turn off the light. Rich as a sultan, Poor as a mite, We're all worth the same When we turn off the light. Red, black or orange, Yellow or white, We all look the same When we turn off the light. So maybe the way, To make everything right Is for god to just reach out And turn off the light!

  Shel Silverstein

  Light, Yellow, White

  Shel Silverstein, “No Difference”

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• The horse grunted softly. He had huge teeth, Clary noticed uneasily; each one the size of a Pez dispenser. She imagined those teeth sinking into her leg and thought of all the girls she'd known in middle school who'd wanted ponies of their own. She wondered if they were insane.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Horse, School

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1027, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn't matter how great you were, it'll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.

  Banksy

  Skills, Climbing, Drunk

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Twists, Stories

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 17, 2013

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• If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.

  Thomas Sowell

  Party, Government, Would Be

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.397, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.

  David Mitchell

  Sky, Clouds, Soul

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.308, Random House

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• I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, with a big bow on it. It would be the right size, it would be a top brand, and it would be warm. ............... It was cranberry red, with a removable liner, a detachable hood, and tortoiseshell buttons.

  Charlaine Harris

  Names, Coats, Fancy

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1004, Penguin

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• Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

  Sidney Poitier

  Thinking, Talking, Trying

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• But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then you set down and pull off the shoes because it just plain much

  Jodi Picoult

  Sneakers, Shoes, Feet

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish he hadn't gone and cut his hair. He looks about eight years old. His ears have tripled in size. Everyone's started calling him Dumbo. Which wouldn't be so bad, except they've started calling me Mrs. Dumbo. You can't even tell he's got curly hair anymore. There's nothing left to run my fingers through. Just this weird blond AstroTurf sprouting out of his skull.

  Sonya Sones

  Running, Cutting, Curly Hair

  Sonya Sones (2013). “What My Mother Doesn't Know”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Half a dozen brats turned with expressions of derision, and Lyra threw her cigarette down, recognizing the cue for a fight. Everyone's daemon instantly became warlike: each child was accompanied by fangs, or claws, or bristling fur, and Pantalaimon, contemptuous of the limited imaginations of these gyptian daemons, became a dragon the size of a deer hound.

  Philip Pullman

  Children, Fighting, Dragons

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• For a woman who can handle herself so well in a fight, I can’t believe you got taken out by a defenseless doorjamb. (Ravyn) Given the size of my goose egg, I would argue the defenseless part. That doorjamb has a mean left hook.(Susan)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Taken, Mean

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• But worse things were about to be found in the bedroom: on the jeweller’s wife’s ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a third party- namely, a black cat of uncanny size, with a glass of vodka in one paw and a fork, on which he had managed to spear a pickled mushroom, in the other. , The Master and Magarita

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Party, Cat, Glasses

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.74, Penguin

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• Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal as far as other witches are concerned. There's a conflict of dominant personalities. There's a group of ringleaders without a ring. There's the basic unwritten rule of witchcraft, which is 'Don't do what you will, do what I say.' The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Animal, Average, Personality

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• Okay, seriously, I dont know if this is true or not, but I heard people who use profanity are trying to compensate for their lack of you know... size" -Tuck

  Simone Elkeles

  People, Trying, Use

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