Large Quotes
3297 Large quotes by 2305 unique authors
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Mistletoe," said Luna dreamily, pointing at a large clump of white berries placed almost over Harry's head. He jumped out from under it. "Good thinking,"…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with…
— Terry Pratchett
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There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some were…
— Michael Ende
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He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere,…
— Freeman Dyson
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much…
— A A Milne
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Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect…
— Douglas Adams
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Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs…
— Victor Hugo
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Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.
— E E Cummings
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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest…
— A A Milne
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Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.
— William Shakespeare
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If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that…
— Stephen Fry
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The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.
— Flannery O'Connor
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There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.
— Philip Pullman
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Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on…
— Dorothy Parker
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It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,…
— Carter G. Woodson
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When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age,…
— Mark Rothko
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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under…
— Thomas Jefferson
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What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he…
— William Shakespeare
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Learning to let go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large, brother-in-law or end-of-quarter office…
— Martha Beck
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The spirit in the body is like wine in a glass; when it spills, it seeps into air and earth and light….It’s a mistake to…
— Anne Michaels
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