Top 14 Lilliputian Quotes
#1. I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited.
Shirley Brice Heath
#2. Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.
Vanessa Carlton
#3. But Thierry was shaking his head. "It doesn't matter." His voice was still quiet, but it was filled with the authority of absolute conviction, a kind of bedrock certainty that held even Hannah mesmerized.
L.J.Smith
#4. Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That's a more fruitful way to be.
Mary Karr
#5. Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.
Duane Michals
#6. We might have coupled
In the bed-ridden monopoly of a moment
Or broken flesh with one another
At the profane communion table
Where wine is spill'd on promiscuous lips
We might have given birth to a butterfly
With the daily-news
Printed in blood on its wings
Mina Loy
#7. He plays with his lip rings, using his tongue to slide them in and out of the holes. Aaaaand that was imagery I so did not need.
C.M. Stunich
#8. How Lilliputian all those anxieties were, how serene that time!
Stefan Zweig
#9. Are you a thinker, a doer, or a clutch player? The better you are, the greater potential for influence you will have with your people.
John C. Maxwell
#10. America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian.
Mohsin Hamid
#11. If you watch a group of schoolchildren eating lunch together, you cannot help but notice how it is a comically Lilliputian version of the adult thing - the cocked eyebrows of conversation, the reaching for condiments, the shovelling of food into tiny mouths.
John Niven
#12. The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotence and hatred masquerading as tranquility and love has no option but to run away, if she is not to be corrupted and extinguished utterly.
Germaine Greer
#13. One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.
Honore De Balzac
#14. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver.
Mary Karr
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