"If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print."
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"I've grown up, everyone's got to grow up. But there's something inside me, I'm always going to have that little sort of, how do you say, child streak."
"Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life."
"Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round."
"Existence for eternity could get a little boring... especially towards the end."
"Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity."
"I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too."
"Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart."
"Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?'' That's how to pick a wife."
"In order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must at first apply to Him with some diligence: but that after a little care we should find His love inwardly excite us to it without any difficulty."
"If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer."
"I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite."
"I would wanna be a mermaid, but I think I'm a little bit more of a unicorn, because I'm like a little bit more horsey."
"I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning."
"Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time."
"If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys."
"Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon."
"We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain."
"She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him."
"You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less."