Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.
In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.
An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.
In many (most?) churches there are programs and activities... but so little worship. There are songs and anthems and musicals... but so little worship. There are announcements and readings and prayers... but so little worship.
I've had a little plastic surgery. I've had a little lipo. I've had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it.
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.
We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce.
Little Violet: [commenting on George] I like him. Little Mary: You like every boy. Little Violet: What's wrong with that?
Rahad Jackson: You want somethin' to drink? A little pill, a little coke, a little dope? I got everything!
Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. -Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)
It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.
The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability.
Observing is not just seeing. It is watching with attention.
To both my parents, the world is a battle for attention, a war to be heard.
You get a zero at the end of your age number, and you get some extra attention. That's what I found out.
The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
Emotional exhibitionism is one block away from whoring for attention.
