Quotes of: Small Keyword

Every now and then, a small plane arrives from nowhere – as tiny as the head of a match-stick – it flies around my head, buzzing, like a pesky little fly, then disappears into my ear. Later, it lands on my throbbing heart. Excited tourists get ou...

Flamingos in the Ashtray: 25 Bizarro Short Stories

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Ins...

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

It turned out to be a war which, unfortunately for Comrade Pillai, would end almost before it began. Victory was gifted to him wrapped and beribboned, on a silver tray. Only then, when it was too late, and Paradise Pickles slumped softly to the floor...

The God of Small Things

...the secret of the Great Stories is that they no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They d...

The God of Small Things

The truth is that exploration and enlargement make the world smaller. The telegraph and the steamboat make the world smaller. The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. Before long the world will be cloven ...

Heretics

I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and fut...

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

Humph.” She peered down suspiciously as he parted the leaves to reveal the choke. “That doesn’t look very tasty.” “That’s because it isn’t,” he said. “Pay heed: the artichoke is a shy vegetable. She covers herself in spine-tipped le...

Scandalous Desires

The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from ushering opinions into the world which deviate from common practice. Hence for want of energy, the you...

A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation: Exhibiting the Numerous Advantages to Be Derived from Small Canals and Boats of Two to Five Feet Wide Containing from Two to Five Tons Burthen: With a Description of the Machinery for Facilitating...

The earth isn’t spinning because you told it to do so. Your intestines aren’t digesting by your command. You’re made up of a trillion cells who don’t ask your permission before offering their rakats. And we think submission is applying strict...

Michael Muhammad Knight

1 Cor 3:15a If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. Number Five is one many deem unimportant, but the apostles and I do not. I tell you now the results of that day will last for all...

Billy Witt

There is a very good organization called "Make a Wish Foundation" that helps make a dying child's wishes come true. People go out of their way and work together to create an unbelievable lasting memory for a deserving person. What just dawned on me w...

JohnA Passaro

She closed her eyes and prayed to whichever small ineffectual god protects the hearts of women.

City of Darkness

A double bed can seem awfully small if your'e sharing it with someone you don't love." -Misia

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

It was interesting the way a small hate could grow inside a big hate and take it over.

Days of Blood & Starlight

I just want to die knowing that I’ve made a difference in the world... or at least a difference to someone, no matter how small the difference.

Divided

It is so small secret that many writers are also alcoholics, drug addicts, sexual deviants, or habitual wearers of blue jeans (in some cases all of the above).

Editorial

He has seen enough of daily evil to be thankful for small goods that come his way.

The Elephant Man

When good Americans die, they go to Paris,' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette.

Embrace the Night

I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

Escape

That was the nature of presents. You kept them in the giver's stead. They were a small part of that person to keep.

Exchange

grappling with some small understanding of this place, this time, we're in" my poem "In a BishopsWood Clearing

Following Father