Bits Quotes · Page 84

When NBC News first assigned me to the Barack Obama campaign, I must confess my knees quaked a bit....I wondered if I…

— Lee Cowan

I remember being very, very aware of gender when I was really young. Not necessarily in a bad way. Maybe it's a…

— Jenny Hval

A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.

— Alex Turner

It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.

— Nicholas Negroponte

In fact, in some countries there are actually voting drives conducted in prison! But here in the U.S., we seem to take…

— Michelle Alexander

I guess it's a bit cliché, but as an actor, I really admire good writing. There are a lot of great ideas…

— Mike Colter

I don't really agree that most academics frown when they hear Wikipedia. Most academics I find quite passionate about the concept of…

— Jimmy Wales

It is very different. I mean, it was immediately different because it's a human being and it's not a vampire and it's…

— Kate Beckinsale

Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed…

— Christiane Amanpour

If you take a look at the most fantastic schemes that are considered impossible: teleportation, warp drive, parallel universes, other dimensions, artificial…

— Michio Kaku

[Marilyn Monroe] was a bit temperamental, a little diva-like, but she didn't deserve what she got.

— Debbie Reynolds

I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying…

— A-Trak

Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.

— David Gilmour

I try to make things more interesting. I want to inject a little bit of excitement. I try to do the show…

— Gareth Pugh

The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those…

— Kevin Sessums

As Joel said, there's a bit more licence to attack over here, whereas the NRL is a bit more grinding-type football.

— Brett Finch

Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator

— John Arlott

Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite…

— David Foster Wallace

Every actor wants to change things up a bit. You don't want to be pigeonholed, and not just because of what the…

— Aidan Turner

Initially, QE contributed to a pretty significant increase in inequality. It raised asset prices, which are owned primarily by the wealthy, while…

— Gerald Epstein

I think vampires have gotten maybe a little bit silly in the last years where they're all wearing crushed velvet and reading…

— Josh Hartnett

These fans here are unbelievable. They showed up and showed out tonight. We needed every little bit of it.

— LeBron James

When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three…

— Kate Bush

The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out…

— Yang Lan

Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that…

— Masiela Lusha

We lose money on signing up the customers where there's some marketing costs associated with giving them a free month. It doesn't…

— Steve Case

Right now, we're not a team. I think we're genuinely happy for each other when we're out there on the court. We've…

— Ray Allen

Honey, if you've had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the…

— Janis Joplin

Gatekeeper was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to…

— Feist

Zara [Phillips] skis very well but is happy to take it easy around me. She will often wait for me when I'm…

— Mike Tindall

I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This…

— Heidi Julavits

I got a little bit of the Marine mentality from my dad, I guess. You can't but help absorb the culture you're…

— Robbie Lawler

No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing…

— Seamus Heaney

At the time I was first writing the stories/essays that appear in Oedipus Wrecked, I was still under the impression that people…

— Kevin Keck

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to…

— Madeleine Albright

People are kinda still a bit puritanical, perhaps. People don't expect a woman to feel so open, in a way, about her…

— Maria Bello

TV has a longer narrative, and TV's more like short stories. So there's less rules with TV; you can make it a…

— Tucker Max

The way of success is not run with seven league boots but step by step, little by little, bit by bit ...…

— Sterling W Sill

...though every thinking being longs for God, the First Cause, it is powerless... to grasp Him. Tired with the yearning it chafes…

— Gregory of Nazianzus