Quotes of: Little-baby Keyword

The spell...curled around...like smoke before settling in. Sophie: "Okay, do you guys feel protected?" Archer: "Yes. Also a little violated, but that's neither here nor there.

Spell Bound

One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters.

Selected Literary Essays

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.

The Sound and the Fury

Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

If you really want things to change, you have to get involved. Little strokes fell big oaks, you know.

Sammy Keyes And the Dead Giveaway

My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it.

Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights

People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Every woman was once a little girl with big dreams. Believe in yourself and never quit dreaming!

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while they still endure for eyes to see, are ever their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song.

The Silmarillion

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?' 'For fun?' 'Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction.

The Magus

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

My Sister's Keeper

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

The Meaning of Things: applying philosophy to life

I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere self is the theme.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

You don’t live in luxury! You are relegated to sleep in the little store room behind the kitchen with the cockroaches and rats and are at the mercy of Mrs. Gupta,’ Reena was indignant. ‘It’s five-star accommodation compared to a mud hut.

Monsoon Memories

I don't know yet what we're called, or if we have a name. I know so little and need to learn so much. I'm many things, detective, and all of them love you.

Masked by Moonlight

Get up and stop crying my little girl, if you don’t have new clothes to wear don’t worry, still stars are whispering about your beauty.

A moment with God ; Poetry

Laura smiled a little wanly in the twilight. "Far more afraid of flesh and blood than ghosts," she murmured.

The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories

Art was my little private pleasure. Nobody had seen my art, not even my parents. Andy didn't know about it. My dream was to become a publisher, not an artist lost in New York.

By My Side

The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.

Moral Disorder and Other Stories