Top 100 A Little Quotes
#1. Mostly, whenever I'm booked to do instruction, I just play a little bit and get people to ask questions. We'll play some music for 'em, 'til somebody hollers out, 'Play 'Milk Cow Blues' or 'Play 'San Antonio Rose.' We play requests and demonstrate our music.
Johnny Gimble
#2. Okay, I should probably mention right here that Brandon used the real word, but this is my story, so I'm cleaning it up a little.
Rachel Hawkins
#3. Sometimes we get a little bit of a facade. We think we have people. Family, friends ... but in the end, it's just you and the darkness. Everyone leaves eventually, my young friend. It's better, really, to learn early. This way, you can save yourself some disappointment.
Morgan Matson
#4. I like girls who really don't care what other people are thinking - girls who are a little goofy. I think that's sexy.
Ryan Lochte
#5. When the anointing of God is upon a person, it changes that individual from being a little ordinary person into being a giant.
Sunday Adelaja
#6. She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.
Alice Hoffman
#7. I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.
Martha Plimpton
#9. The Saracens surrendered to Richard. And he had every last one of them beheaded. There was a hill of heads, a hill that grew gradually out of the moat and spilled on to the plain.' Liam looked down at a potato bobbing in his soup and all of a sudden felt a little less hungry.
Alex Scarrow
#10. Don't let a little sin in; all hell will break loose.
Adrian Rogers
#11. There is no harm in our criticizing foreigners, if only we would also criticize ourselves. In other words, the world might need even less of its new charity, if it had a little more of the old humility.
G.K. Chesterton
#12. The first time I bring a girl home, and not only is she the daughter of a famous poker player, but she could easily bankrupt us all in a single hand. For being the family fuckup, I felt like I had finally gained a little respect from my older brothers. And it was all because of Abby.
Jamie McGuire
#13. I remember seeing the movie 'To Sir With Love' when I was a little girl.
Chaka Khan
#15. Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?
Easy - I'd be at home, medicating myself into a monotone. Drowning my sorrows in video games. Working shifts at Smart Aid. Dying inside, day by day, from regret.
Ransom Riggs
#16. Here's a habit I never thought I'd develop: I gravitate to anything online that's marked 'most popular' or 'most e-mailed.' And I hate myself a little bit every time I do.
Susan Orlean
#17. Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.
Charles Dickens
#18. From the time I was a little kid, I was always shy. Performing was when I was outgoing. So I guess I am a loner. I get claustrophobia if a lot of people are around.
Johnny Carson
#19. Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her.
Cornelia Funke
#20. At least it was gym and there was a little wiggle room.
Or so I thought. Miss Lynn,that hideous creature, was waiting outside the door, marking off girls as they came in.
Kiersten White
#21. I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until my early to mid-30s.
Craig Finn
#22. When I observed a strong man approaching I generally took advantage of him by being a little quicker than he was and seizing him by the tip of the fingers, giving him a hearty shake, and thus preventing him from getting a full grip upon me.
James K. Polk
#23. I read because imagination was the only thing that elevated me beyond my own reality. To look at my world as my only plane of existence was so limiting, and a little depressing. I needed the boundless worlds I found in good fiction.
Katie Ray
#24. Wait, it's going to fall," I say, pointing to the banner. "Pull it tighter-there, yeah, see how loose it is?"
"A little to the left" Isaac mocks me, grinning. "A little to the right?"
I stick my tongue out at him.
"Better be careful with that thing," he jokes.
J.A. Redmerski
#25. I like the idea of having a little bit of a mystery about me.
Liana Liberato
#26. You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
Sally Hawkins
#27. The monk solved his immediate problem by giving a little whimper and fainting.
Terry Pratchett
#28. I'm just a little bit sicker then the average individual I think.
Eminem
#29. Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.
Muhammad Ali
#30. For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I thought that would help me carry myself around the stage in that character.
Aaron Lazar
#31. An angel kissed my strings, while I slept last night. And her rhythm broke my hunger. And I died a little less.
Sara Quin
#32. You cut his head off. It makes it a little difficult for him to suck your cock.
C.S. Pacat
#33. You need to have a lot of close family around you, a lot of friends to keep you honest. Take your time, take a year and just slow everything down a little bit. Get away from the success part, stay with yourself. Go off on a beach somewhere or do something to keep yourself aligned right.
George Lucas
#34. We have this wonderful capacity in America to Hitlerize people. We had Hitler, and since Hitler we've had about 20 of them. Khrushchev and Mao and of course Stalin, and for a little while Gadhafi was our Hitler.
Seymour Hersh
#35. Pritkin was saying something, something I should probably be paying attention to since he was looking a little ... stressed.
Karen Chance
#36. The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it's a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I've chosen to follow.
Nicholas Sparks
#37. I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and you're not really thinking about making a point one way or another about it. You're just coming up with a little scenario and seeing it through, and that's it.
Adam Schlesinger
#38. A good marriage is loving someone in a lot of different circumstances. Respect for them and their views and ideas and the life that they're leading with you. Shared values and interests. A good sense of humour. And a little volatility along the way.
Edward Kennedy
#39. Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.
J. William Fulbright
#40. You could do with a little less baking and a little more living life.
Jenny Han
#41. By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more on how people here try to be happy by ignoring other people who are unhappy.
Ram Dass
#42. Say what you like about melodrama, it beats confusion. The truth is we ought have a chance to say a little something when it's getting dark. We ought to have a closing scene.
Leif Enger
#43. It is possible with only a little extra anguish
to live in this world at absolute [minimum?]
loving brainy sexual energetic redeemed
Grace Paley
#44. Don't worry, Miss Brielle. To be honest, the ones with a little bit of crazy have always been my favorite.
C.J. Milbrandt
#45. I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
Daniel Clowes
#46. If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.
Tom Sharpe
#47. I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.
Carrie Underwood
#48. Who taught you how to discern the Truth? Was it a big liar or a little liar or no liar at all? We cannot expect honesty from those we deal with if we don't even know how to tell when we're being lied to.
A. Antares
#49. In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.
Dario Argento
#50. I've always loved fantasy. I think it's a great way to look at issues that we have in our own lives with a little bit of the pressure off, you know.
Alice Englert
#51. I have received 16 Grammy nominations and I have no trophies, because I chose to write the harsh realities. I stayed true to myself and I've taken a little beating behind it.
Curtis Jackson
#52. I think when black performers performed in blackface, they were kind of taking back slave songs, but it was still a little bit iffy because they were performing, a lot of times, for white audiences who found it hilarious.
Cecile McLorin Salvant
#53. Even when I was a little kid, I hated to dress up. I hated to put on regular shoes. I wanted to play all the time. I hate to wear any kind of coat or sweater. I've never liked hot. I've never liked to be warm.
John Madden
#54. All right," she said a little sarcastically. "I was going to assume you liked eating babies and sacrificing virgins, but I might as well ask, what do you do for fun?"
"I languish in sin," I replied in the same tone. "I take my babies rare, and my virgins over easy.
Nenia Campbell
#55. You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.
Gregory Peck
#56. A little slower, sweetheart. Cape Cod is freezing over.
Rick Riordan
#57. We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
Charles Darwin
#58. And he's alone there, with the unconscious pilot lying a little way off for company, and some other guy he's never even seen, only spoken to over the radio.
He wants to sleep so badly - dying they call it - and he can't. Something's bothering him to keep him awake. ("Jane Brown's Body")
Cornell Woolrich
#59. I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit of melancholy. I had a lot of anger for my situations in life, and I would take this out on my first wife.
David Lynch
#60. We're all going a little craz - " He stopped; he couldn't possibly say anything worse. "I mean ... " "Just shut it," Newt said. "I know something's started in my head. I don't feel right. But you don't need to worry your buggin' panties off.
James Dashner
#61. I am in agreement with Goethe, who said that every day one ought to 'hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.' I would add to this the need to love. Without it, the rest is dust.
Elizabeth Berg
#62. I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.
Tina Fey
#63. Sorry, sorry, don't mind me, coming through, oh why hello there - " This to a particularly handsome Kai look-alike droid, which had no more reaction than any of the others. "Or not," she muttered, brushing past him. "Pardon me, a little space, please?
Marissa Meyer
#64. It's a really unique job that is a little schizophrenic and you have to kind of do it with a sense of humor.The trick is figuring out what each job is asking of you and what it's not asking of you.
Ethan Hawke
#65. One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one's being to take over the work from time to time.
John Gardner
#67. I'm looking forward to some more solo acoustic dates. That's a lot of fun for me, because I get to be alone with the song. And I get to hear every little nuance; if my instrument does something that I wasn't expecting, I get to chase that. Chase that down a little bit.
Bob Weir
#68. Afraid?" he growled, irritated she could affect his senses so easily. "No," she snapped. "Not even just a little?
Monica Burns
#69. Well, hello there," I said, "you big, beautiful overgrown passageway." I looked over to Lia. "Let's confuse 'em a little.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#70. But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.
Alan Shepard
#71. My timing's a little off. But I'm about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.
David Ortiz
#72. Personally, I don't like inherently happy people. I don't trust them. I think there's something seriously wrong with anyone who isn't at least a little let down by the world.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#73. I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.
Nora Ephron
#74. If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. But
after all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted a
mountain high! A hill wasn't enough.
V.C. Andrews
#75. Instead, she rose a little onto her toes and they kissed again.
Scott Westerfeld
#76. She had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.
Louis Bromfield
#77. We all have a path to take; sometimes it's hidden under the weeds, so you might have to work a little.
Michael Dolan
#78. It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.
"So it is."
"And freezing."
"Is it?"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.
A.A. Milne
#79. On 'Chopped,' the time goes down a bit and there are several ingredients, usually one that makes no sense whatsoever with the rest of the ingredients. So it gets you out of your culinary comfort zone a little bit. Like we had octopus and cheese paired up with each other.
Michael Symon
#80. Jealousy and regret mixed with a little love will moisten the eyes of any man.
Jason Good
#82. Q: Will I encounter turbulence?
A: Yes. Into all lives a little turbulence must fall.
Nicola Yoon
#83. If you look at the practice of 'crisis management,' and maybe squint at it a little, you can make out in the corners of your vision the ghosts or the vestiges of a much older, but still thoroughly American, form of public life, one centered not on public opinion but on religion.
Jonathan Dee
#84. I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand.
William H. Hunt
#85. I ask is there anything with a little kick to drink. And this old lady says to me, We don't approve of alcohol. And I says, Well, ma'am, we need to remember Jesus did turn water to wine. And she says, And we're none too crazy about that stunt, neither.
Smith Henderson
#86. Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression.
H.P. Lovecraft
#87. No I just feel a little dizzy. You know, like when you try to read the newspaper in the car and all the lines start waving around and go blurry?"
"That doesn't happen to me"
"Oh.
Catherine Clark
#88. I'm like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, 'It's too loud!' But I think music gives so much inspiration.
Donatella Versace
#89. Love without a little fighting is like potatoes without salt.
Violet Winspear
#90. I don't know how many more of these awards I can come up for because I think a little bit is coming out of my pants right now.
Robert Pattinson
#91. When I was 20, my mother died and I went off the rails a little bit. I kinda had my slightly dark period.
James McCartney
#92. Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.
Peter O'Toole
#93. How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how ... If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.
William, Saroyan
#94. A cool red rose and a pink cut pink, a collapse and a sold hole, a little less hot. - Red roses.
Gertrude Stein
#95. In her inestimable audacity, Julia was the catalyst in my life for something beautiful. I hadn't anticipated her - hadn't even wanted her, truthfully - but there she was. A little something extra that made all the difference in the world.
Cathleen Falsani
#96. I told him I'd always found the description a little too long on adjectives and a little too short on specifics.
Amor Towles
#97. If the ties that bind ever do come loose
If forever ever ends for you
If that ring gets a little too tight
You might as well read me my last rights.
The Band Perry
#98. In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.
John D'Agata
#99. I like rugby - I watch it from time to time. It's basically football without pads but probably a little bit more dangerous than football. You've got to be a lot tougher in that sport - but I definitely like watching rugby and watching those guys knock each other around. It looks like a fun sport.
Reggie Bush
#100. Admittedly, it's a little crazy. Grand, infinite God taking on the squalling form of a human baby boy. It's what some of the old-timers call a scandal, the scandal of the Gospel. But it is also the whole point.
Lauren F. Winner
