Tiny Quotes
1388 quotes by 1044 authors
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It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just…
— J D Salinger
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Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By…
— Haruki Murakami
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If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who…
— Temple Grandin
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Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short…
— Alice Walker
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It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing.…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people…
— Haruki Murakami
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I’m Angelina,†she says. “Are you here to save us?†I can see a tiny spark of hope awaken in her eyes. “You’re right, Angelina…
— Markus Zusak
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if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.
— Charles Bukowski
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Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples,…
— Sarah Vowell
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I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an…
— C.S. Lewis
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I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook…
— Michael Collins
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It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now.…
— Miranda July
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Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they…
— Randall Munroe
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He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Jules has always been one of those women that men go crazy about because she has enough self-confidence to say this is me, take it…
— Jane Green
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Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same:…
— Galway Kinnell
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The space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in a cocoon of…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs…
— Michael Chabon
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Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and…
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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