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I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected
We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.
There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.
Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.
She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.
The sky above us is something we have very little control of, and the space beyond is something we don't completely understand.
Don’t kiss me,” she said warningly. “I don’t intend to,” he replied, smiling a little. “I don’t have my whip and chair with me.
A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.
When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.
AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.
Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.
You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!
...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.
Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.
Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage; love had to do with trust.
Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.
This is something I dreamed about as a little kid, being back in my hometown (Cincinnati) where I watched so many great players.
Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria.
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.
Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back.
Strangers see you the way you want them to see you. You can't fool friends…that's what makes them friends... Pretty Little Liars
I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it's starting to reverse a little bit.
A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp.
I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.
How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.
It's only a little difficult to say no. You've got to believe that the work you're doing is ultimately more useful to the world.
I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until my early to mid-30s.
I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.
It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.
We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.
We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.
Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that's not horror.
If you try to find your source, you are not going to find it in a tiny little particle that began with your parents commingling.
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]
What do little kids do? They crawl on the floor and they build with blocks. I just continued to do that for the rest of my life.
He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.
I just tried to create a little chaos. Chaos is a good thing. God created the whole world out of it. Change is what comes of it.
The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.
For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.
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?.
I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.
I've always loved drama. This is a blessing because I can show a little bit of what I can do, and hopefully more, in the future.