The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come and stand around it and warm their hands.
The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.
We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.
The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.
Some guys, when they get drafted, they only think about themselves. They go buy cars and houses. I just wanted to take care of my mom.
I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.
I grew up in a lot of different homes when I was younger: my parents rented trailers and small, boxy houses set high on cement block pillars.
I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter.
For the longest time, I never thought I was intimidating to guys, but I'm kind of finding out that maybe there is some tiny thread of intimidation.
Children are like tiny flowers: They are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers.
I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.
I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.
I have two houses in California, and they're both within a couple of minutes from the beach. So, I definitely feel at home in California and by the ocean.
There is but one Earth, tiny and fragile, and one must get 100,000 miles away to appreciate fully one's good fortune in living on it.
In the mid-1800s, they were known also as 'singsong houses,' and the courtesans were actually master musicians.
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.
I go to all the haunted houses that I can get my hands on, and I grew up in Michigan, where there are a lot of back-woodsy haunted attractions.
Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.
Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.
What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.
As a preacher who has spent significant time in churches and houses of worship all across the country, I can tell you firsthand that religious liberty and freedom are principles that can never be infringed upon.
I have little compassion for people in trailer parks who refuse to move after getting tornado warnings. How hard is it for them to relocate? Their houses have wheels.
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
The lucky village of Sodeto, in the kingdom of Aragon, is a cluster of sensible houses spackled together off the main road, curtained behind a pine copse.
No one can know the infinite importance of a tiny drop of water better than a thirsty bird or a little ant or a man of desert!
Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.
Just looking when I was little at pictures of cars and houses that I wanted - it gives you a certain motivation, it gives you a goal.
I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny
Does it give you déjà voodoo how alike the houses are?" "That's déjà vu, and I hate you right now
In Europe, the houses and the apartments are getting smaller. So there is no need to increase the screen because the apartment is becoming smaller.
McGregor has a good punch, but he cannot say that he's the biggest puncher. MMA gloves are tiny - four ounces - so when they connect, they drop you.
The Hester Street Fair is kind of like a tiny baby DailyCandy market every week in the Lower East Side.
My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.
I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny.
I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s.
Well we have a tiny garden, it's like a postage stamp, so generally we try to get out to the parks in London as much as possible.
I don't just talk about jewelry and cars and houses and belittling those that don't have that. I'm a democrat. I speak for the democrats. I speak for the soil.
Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--
As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.
If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.
Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.
In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you
If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural.
I found out a lot of stuff through MTV, and I didn't even have cable, I just saw it at friends' houses. But my culture in junior high was totally influenced by it.
Just because you’re allowed to use magic now you don’t have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing!
People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.
I watch Pretty Little Liars with my best friend Telly. We go to each other's houses when it airs and we watch it.
The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.
Employers are as sensitive to housing costs as their employees, which is why, when we build more houses, we create more jobs.
When I wake up, I always thank God. I'm grateful for another day, and he's allowed me this tiny thing that we should be appreciative of.
I'll tell you my routine - it's really exciting. I feed, I burp, I change diapers, I pump. And then I have a tiny window of time to myself.
The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you’re shooting for here so make the hurdle as low as possible.
The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
Don't start,” he warned. “What?” she said, grinning. “I'm sure all the big, bad trappers have a bun-bun in their houses.
The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
I grew up homeless, you know, lived in and out of U-Haul trucks and, you know, apartment houses, friends.
You learn these little tricks for stage fighting, which are really tiny and you wouldn't think of them, but it makes all the difference in the world. I love it!
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