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Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.
As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.
I thought, 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to videotape it.' So I got out my little video recorder and was taping goodbyes to my family.
For anyone to achieve something, he will have to show a little courage. You're only on this earth once. You must give it all you've got.
There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.
I might be a touch of a sadist and a little bit jejune... but at least I'm not a victim, not any longer. I hope. I hope, therefore I am.
Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.
People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.
I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that.
You’re playing the creepy vibe a little hard,” I said. “Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music.
When you go through certain moments of your career and you're struggling, it just takes time. Time heals, when you're a little bit down.
Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.
I saw A Little Romance [and] I was so in love with Laurence Olivier. I watched that movie over and over and just fell in love with love.
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.
Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language.
Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.
I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.
When I'm not working, I'm definitely a no-makeup girl. The most I ever do is a little tinted moisturizer and a little mascara and blush.
The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.
I think the comedy clubs tend to homogenize the acts a little bit, because they force them to be palatable in way too many environments.
I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.
One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.
He had always beaten me. It feels good to get a little revenge. I knew I just had to keep pushing, and it just feels great to be on top.
Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.
Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.
If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.
You’re not pathetic. Actually, I envy you a little.” “Because I’m a mess?” Zach asked dryly. “No. Because you’re not afraid to be a mess.
When I am outside at night by myself every person turns into a pedophile. So I tend to walk a little faster than usual and then I sprint.
How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.
Gollum is Gollum - though in 'Lord of the Rings' he's 600 years old and in 'The Hobbit' he's 540, so he looks a little bit more handsome.
Living in Brooklyn it's a very fend-for-yourself place. Maybe it's made me a little bit harsh but I don't consider that to be pejorative.
Most national advertising is done without justification. It is merely presumed to pay. A little test might show a way to multiply returns
The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
You're dealing immense, acute amounts of fear, which makes the rest of life a little bit easier. You don't sweat the small stuff so much.
Anyone with great imagination, of course, is intuitive. Knowledge of any nature, unless put into practical use, becomes of little effect.
England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.
I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.
Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.
When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in.
I don't even know if you're allowed to say this. But just like you can't be a little bit pregnant, you also can't be a little bit spread.
The body's ills are the least of ills, for they end only in death, which is but a little thing. But if the spirit dies, then all is lost.
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.
You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it