Quotes of: Bigger-picture Keyword

I thought about the cameras following me in the terminal and pictured my family watching my entrance on TV. I hoped they’d be proud.

The Selection

Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night.

The Silence of the Lambs

Hate was the other side of love, wasn’t it? That’s what passion was like with her—to the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. We traveled to heaven and hell together. Earth wasn’t in the picture, and that was a problem.

Soulmates

They want dancing girls! They want thrills! They want elephants! They want people falling off roofs! They want dreams! The world is full of little people with big dreams!

Moving Pictures

The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to p...

On Masturbation

If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would've told him I was into cannibalism.

My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

The Name of the Wind

She wanted to know if I loved her, so I texted her a picture of a dead bird.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why did God invent captions?

Land Mines and Ladyboys: Flirting with Danger in Thailand and Cambodia

Maybe I could dole out the truth in tiny pieces that, once assembled, would make a picture that resembled a reality in which I hadn’t done anything wrong.

Liars, Inc.

That's the way all life's battles are won.. You don't look at the overall picture. You take one step, then another, and another... until you arrive at your destination.

Seeds of Yesterday

. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

Ordinary People

In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did.

Picture Perfect

I don't function without a heart, he said angrily and then added under his breath as he grabbed at the front of his Tshirt, He's right here.

Take My Picture

A picture with one word on it is like a thousand-and-one-word piece of literature. At this rate, I should be done with my million-word novel in about 999 minutes.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I have an Unexplained Flying Erection. I also have a floating picture of my dead grandma. The two are unrelated. Long live the queen!

This Book is Not FOR SALE

With my wedding photography business, I want repeat customers. So hooray for divorce! That’s why I take lots of pictures—of cheating spouses.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I mean, scamming on guys on the Internet? I thought that was only for forty-year-old divorcees who Photoshop their pictures in an effort to appear younger and thinner.

Two-Way Street

You men never change. Is that all you can see? Proud grandfathers of a large....” Mrs. Werner smacked her husband upside the head and took the pictures away.

Twenty Weeks

Whether you think you're right or you think you're wrong. You're right." "If you think in pictures, write. If you think in words, paint.

Under a Prairie Moon

You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.

Warm Bodies