Size Quotes
1647 quotes by 1274 authors
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The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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I don’t know. D’you think? He’s pretty wide in the chest.†The girl looked at me, and I was frozen. So I said, “Yeah. I…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had…
— Marian Keyes
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The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The mystery of the universe is not time but size.
— Stephen King
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Rather, very, little, pretty -- these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the…
— William Strunk, Jr.
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My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly…
— Hermann Hesse
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Come on,†he droned, “I’ve been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they…
— Douglas Adams
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In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.
— John Steinbeck
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I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be…
— Libba Bray
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You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.
— Nigel Slater
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You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.
— Salman Rushdie
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If you are a woman, if you are a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of…
— Margaret Cho
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No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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YOU have no room to laugh, that's all. I'm not doing any worse with Boovish than you did with English.' Get off of the car,'…
— Adam Rex
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He had never really speculated about this before, since demons came in all shapes and sizes. Indeed, some of them came in more than one…
— John Connolly
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Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s the size-doesn’t-matter-except-in-my-case problem,…
— Nick Hornby
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Yeah, size is no guarantee of power,†said George. “Look at Ginny.†“What d’you mean?†said Harry. “You’ve never been on the receiving end of…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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