Bits Quotes
497 quotes by 427 authors
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I'm pleased to see that the cab is cluttered with cough drop wrappers and empty milk bottles and bits of mud-smeared newspapers made brittle by…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t…
— Frank McCourt
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It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of…
— Nancy Horan
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I do not wish to criticize any system that can nourish people’s spirits, but I find that a lot of New Age writing cherry-picks the…
— John O'Donohue
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The dead do walk and haunt and crawl into your bed at night. Ghosts sneak into your head when you're not looking. Stars line up…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Charred bits of black silk swirl into the air, and pearls clatter to the stage… I’m in a dress of the exact design of my…
— Suzanne Collins
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It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug. It's the only…
— John Fowles
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I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.
— Kurt Cobain
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And random bits of happiness, like Finnick and Annie's newborn boy.
— Suzanne Collins
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I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit…
— Jeanette Winterson
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You barbarians!' he yelled. 'I'll sue the council for every penny it's got! I'll have you hung, drawn and quartered! And whipped! And boiled...until...until...until...until you've…
— Douglas Adams
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A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.
— Vladimir Mayakovsky
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If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.
— Kristin Cashore
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Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking…
— Arundhati Roy
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A spider lives inside my head Who weaves a strange and wondrous web Of silken threads and silver strings To catch all sorts of flying…
— Shel Silverstein
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It was strange to find them here, still alive, with their shared bits of past that suddenly counted for nothing.
— Paolo Giordano
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Peter used to say that an artist’s job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
— Karl Popper
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A leather jacket,†Kami said as he shrugged into it. “Aren’t you trying a little too hard to play into certain bad boy clichés?†“Nahâ€,…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a…
— Louise Erdrich
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427 authors contributed a total of 497 Bits Quotes, led by these top contributors: