Quotes of: Bits-and-pieces Keyword

I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.

Victoria Wood

It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.

Yigal Azrouel

Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.

Zachary Levi

I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash.

Anthony Browne

I wear Blundstones for hiking. They're like a work boot with a bit of grip, so you can wear them all day. They're quite groovy.

Anna Torv

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

David Hockney

I'm sure Alex will be having to get the masseurs in to work on those legs. You feel tired when you're losing but when you are winning it gives you that bit of an edge.

Graham Roberts

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists; you have definitely fewer women in that field.

Christine Lagarde

Meghan pushed her chocolate cheesecake across the table to me. I hadn’t gotten paid yet for November, so I had only ordered coffee. “Here,” she said. “Don’t you want it?” “Sure I want it. I ordered it. But I’m giving it to you.” “...

Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren't Complicated, I Wouldn't Be Ruby Oliver

If instead of arranging the atoms in some definite pattern, again and again repeated, on and on, or even forming little lumps of complexity like the odor of violets, we make an arrangement which is always different from place to place, with different...

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher

You know what I used to dream about, in stir?" His voice was hoarse, the words low and fast and faintly guttural. "I used to dream about you. You were the only clean and good and decent thing left in my life, and I would dream about you. I used to dr...

One Summer

Is Lisa going to the prom?' I shelved my worries for the moment. 'I don't know, Mom. We don't talk about the You-Know-What. We made a pact.' You could go together, if you didn't want to mess with dates and things.' I don't want to mess with the prom ...

Prom Dates from Hell

This work is the link between my Dear Natalie piece and my upcoming Agatha work. It bridges that lapse in time and shows how my thinking has changed. It shows me telling a story through the surreal and trying to use thought fragments alone to show a ...

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Bunny: Hey Junior, you never smoked any shit? Junior: That's right, dude. See, y'all been trying to keep the black man down, and string him out on that shit. But the time be's comin, my man, when the black man? Throw that yoke off. Simple - free your...

Platoon

It's not compromise if it doesn't sting just a little bit on both sides, now is it?

Complicated Creatures

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

Catch-22

Funny thing about glass. When you broke the shit up, it got pissed and bit back.

Covet

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

Five on a Treasure Island

We're going to have a woman lodger.’ ‘Cripes,’ said Jenno. ‘That'll cramp yer style a bit.

Gang Spies

No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.

Goodbye Tsugumi

All's fair in love and war," said Ron brightly, "and this is a bit of both.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows