To whom shall I offer this book, young and sprightly, Neat, polished, wide-margined, and finished politely? To you, my Cornelius, whose learning pedantic, Has dared to set forth in three volumes gigantic The history of ages—ye gods, what a labor!�...
My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded. And had I not been born in Bad Munstereifel. If we had lived in the city -- well, I"m not saying the event would have gone unnoticed, but the fuss woul...
It is pleasant to walk your dog beside a lake in winter in a tropical place because all of the black ducks waddle up the ryegrass bank and pluck the seed with their small gray beaks. There is nothing required of you but to watch them and wonder what ...
Have you been walking in the woods in the last few days?" Matt asked. Lola cleared her throat anxiously. What had she managed to do now, catch jungle fever? "We went hiking in the Greenhills on Wednesday. What's wrong?" Her voice sounded squeaky, so ...
Benny Rodriguez: Man, this is baseball. You gotta stop thinking. Just have fun. I mean, if you were having fun you would've caught that ball. You ever have a paper route? Smalls: I helped a guy once. Benny Rodriguez: Okay, well chuck it like you thro...
Irma, she said. But I had started to walk away. I heard her say some more things but by then I had yanked my skirt up and was running down the road away from her and begging the wind to obliterate her voice. She wanted to live with me. She missed me....
Oh-ho, so you are a witch. More like a witchling, as you're too small to be a full witch.” (Emmerich)
The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.
There was a necklace inside. A thin silver chain with a small pendant, a silver pansy.
Your horse is named Small. Yes. Mine is named Big. -Fire and Brigan
Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.
But then I remembered: the universe was closed, and so very small. There was really nowhere else to go.
Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
There's a movie called 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age,' where I'm playing the King of Spain. It's a small role, but it's really, really interesting, the way I constructed it.
Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them.
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
Small as a pea. Wider than the sea. This is where you and I came to be.
I need either a small coffee or a large nap.
Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored...
