Big things are often just little things that people notice.
Markus Zusak
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It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed...
MARKUS ZUSAK I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.
MARKUS ZUSAK It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
JOHN WOODEN You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.
NADIA COMANECI It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
JOHN WOODEN If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
WILLIAM H. MCRAVEN We walked beside each other, talking about things we should have been least concerned about. But at ...
MELITA TESSY The question is, what colour will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sk...
MARKUS ZUSAK Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lo...
MARKUS ZUSAK People often miss things that don't exist--miss things that were but are not anymore.
SARAH MCCOY It's the little things that make big things happen.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.
ROBERT DUVALL It's the little things that add up to big things.
SEAN CROSBY We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't noti...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Little things can make such a big difference during recording.
MATT CAMERON Little things done with love are much better than big things without love.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Always embrace the little things,for they are the seed that produces the fruit called the big things...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things.
NEIL CAVUTO If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
ARTHUR BAER The biggest criticism would be buying clothes that are too big or trying too hard. I tend to like th...
SIMON SPURR The most precious things that we have in our every day lives, are the ones that are least notice by ...
ANONYMOUS Isn't it Ironic... the little things in Life are truly a Big deal & the things we think are a big de...
WILLIAM PAISLEY Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
TERRY MCAULIFFE My friend Markus Zusak wrote a story from the point of view of death, 'The Book Thief.' I th...
SHAUN TAN I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they ca...
LEE CHILD I could go on and on about the little things that people did that made a big difference.
KRISTY CURRY I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.
TONY DORSETT If you don't cherish the little things people do in your life, don't expect the big things from anyo...
THE INSPIRATIONIST I'm just trying to do big things with my career all the time.
JACOB BATALON Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.
ALLAN BECK Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people
ALLAN BECK Brett's a very heady player. He does the little things and coaches take notice.
BILL OTTE fake people notice the most fake things in the most real people
ABBY REYNOLDS Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.
MARKUS ZUSAK Great things are rarely easy things. They are most often risky things, with just as great a chance f...
MIKE HUCKABEE How many times did she have to say goodbye?
MARKUS ZUSAK Where Hans Hubermann and Erik Vandenburg were ultimately united by music, Max and Liesel were held t...
MARKUS ZUSAK *** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT ***
ABOUT RUDY STEINER
He didn't deserve to die the way he did.
MARKUS ZUSAK *** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT ***
***ABOUT RUDY STEINER***
He didn't deserve to die the way he ...
MARKUS ZUSAK After another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would ...
MARKUS ZUSAK I think a lot of times, the things you can't measure are often the things that give people the most ...
AARON RODGERS What people say and what people do are often very different things.
KAY HAZEN We never worry about the big things, just the small things.
TRAVIS BARKER I'm not sure why, but when a person expects something to last forever, they don't notice the little ...
SHANNON WIERSBITZKY Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.
CECELIA AHERN Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.
LIZ VASSEY The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.
WILLIAM VAN HORNE The important things often are are the everyday things.
THOMAS J. POWELL Sometimes, little things make a big difference...
NINO VARSIMASHVILI Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you ...
CECELIA AHERN Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never rea...
JODI PICOULT I think most things are pretty magical, and that it’s less a matter of belief than it is one of ju...
NEIL GAIMAN Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of a...
MARKUS ZUSAK Those that are little, little things suit.
HORACE It is better to do little things with love than big things without love.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA To do BIG things, you must be willing to do the little things well.
LORRIN L. LEE It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.
EDIE FALCO There's a certain expectation, and I demand that things be done a certain way. Little things make a ...
KATHY GIBSON The things that stand out are often the oddities.
PIERRE SALINGER We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally milli...
ALEX STEFFEN Little things add up to become a big thing
SOTONYE ANGA Even if we're not doing anything wrong, there are certain things we want to do that we don't...
GLENN GREENWALD It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getti...
LEMONY SNICKET I've often felt that things are blurred, and we don't remember what went on or appreciate what just ...
MICHAEL ROSEN Those things that are not within your control can often be the very things that set you free.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR ''The good things are often unnoticed,,But the bad things are always remembered.
TANICA S HALL If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.
DWAYNE JOHNSON People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
FRANK OCEAN I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Big people wear and speak of big things.
THE INSPIRATIONIST Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
IAN HUNTER Those are the little things that add up to making a very unique and worthwhile product for our custo...
BOB HANSMANN It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are r...
LEMONY SNICKET Just little things that I'm really going to miss,
ROBIN HORTON Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.
ASHISH KUMAR He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would...
MARKUS ZUSAK People don't very much like things that are beautiful -- they are so far from their nasty little min...
CLAUDE DEBUSSY That's the big stuff. We did a lot of little stuff that most people probably didn't even notice. All...
DAWN WILLEY Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do importa...
JOHN CLEESE The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure ...
BARBARA PYM When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little re...
MARTIN SELIGMAN Details are often the parts that people relate to. At the same time, they are also the things that l...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE I don’t think you have to do something so big to be brave. And it’s the little things that are h...
MORGAN MATSON LeBron's been like a big brother to me, watching me play and giving me pointers on just little t...
BEN SIMMONS Just because Pluto or comets aren't as big as Jupiter doesn't mean they are not scientifical...
ALAN STERN Little things please little minds.
OVID Blocking has been a crucial part of me getting more playing time. Sometimes, it's the little things ...
LOGAN PAYNE Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done.
PROVERB Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
ROBERT BRAULT Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were
the big things.
ROBERT BRAULT Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done
PERSIAN PROVERB I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events...
NOAH BAUMBACH The kids are just competitors. The little things that you're not supposed to do, we did tonight.
DALE TELLER Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.
JANETTE RALLISON Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort...
JOHN W. HINCKLEY, JR. Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort...
JOHN W. HINCKLEY JR. We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges...
BARACK OBAMA The things of substance are the things that we need to focus on, but they are the things that seem t...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE They haven't had the time here to learn the situations. Just watching film, learning your surroundin...
JOSH WILSON The attraction to me was that Harvard was such a big community, with interesting things to do and in...
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MARKUS ZUSAK A DEFINITION NOT FOUND
IN THE DICTIONARY
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often...
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I do not carry a sickle or scythe.
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* A girl
* Some words
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MARKUS ZUSAK Hair the color of lemons,'" Rudy read. His fingers touched the words. "You told him about me?"
...
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MARKUS ZUSAK A small fact:
You are going to die....does this worry you?
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MARKUS ZUSAK ***HERE IS A SMALL FACT***
You are going to die.
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MARKUS ZUSAK She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her.
MARKUS ZUSAK If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.
MARKUS ZUSAK And you're Cameron Wolfe. That' gotta start meaning somethin' boy. That's gotta start churnin' insid...
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MARKUS ZUSAK It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.
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MARKUS ZUSAK ... because a fight's worth nothing if you know from the start that you're going to win it. It's the...
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MARKUS ZUSAK The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
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MARKUS ZUSAK Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his ther...
MARKUS ZUSAK The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.
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MARKUS ZUSAK I realize that nothing belongs to her anymore and she belongs to everything.
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MARKUS ZUSAK Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation.
MARKUS ZUSAK Our footsteps run, and I don't want them to end. I want to run and laugh and feel like this forever....
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MARKUS ZUSAK What would you do if you were me? Tell me. Please tell me!
But you're far from this. Your finge...
MARKUS ZUSAK My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.
MARKUS ZUSAK Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.
MARKUS ZUSAK She soon says, "You're my best friend, Ed."
You can kill a man with those words.
No gun. MARKUS ZUSAK It's impeccable how brutal the truth can be at times. You can only admire it. Usually, we walk aroun...
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MARKUS ZUSAK I'm just another stupid human.
MARKUS ZUSAK If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live...
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MARKUS ZUSAK Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.
MARKUS ZUSAK I think she ate a salad and some soup.
And loneliness.
She ate that, too.
MARKUS ZUSAK My arms are killing me.
I didn't know words could be so heavy.
MARKUS ZUSAK I'm not the messenger at all.
I'm the message.
MARKUS ZUSAK You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.
MARKUS ZUSAK I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.
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MARKUS ZUSAK ...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.
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I could taste it now.
It tasted like blood in my mouth, and...
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MARKUS ZUSAK At first, all is black and white.
Black on white.
That's where I'm walking, through pages....
MARKUS ZUSAK Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry.
Yes. I like that a lot.
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MARKUS ZUSAK What do you want to kiss me for? I'm filthy.'- Liesel
So am I.'- Rudy
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Papa was an accordion!
But his bellows w...
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MARKUS ZUSAK ***A KEY WORD***
Imagined
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She became thirteen...
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MARKUS ZUSAK How many times did she have to say goodbye?
MARKUS ZUSAK Where Hans Hubermann and Erik Vandenburg were ultimately united by music, Max and Liesel were held t...
MARKUS ZUSAK Here is a small fact: You are going to die"
"does this scare you? I urge you don't be afraid, I...
MARKUS ZUSAK *** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT ***
ABOUT RUDY STEINER
He didn't deserve to die the way he did.
MARKUS ZUSAK *** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT ***
***ABOUT RUDY STEINER***
He didn't deserve to die the way he ...
MARKUS ZUSAK The moon was sewn into the sky that night
MARKUS ZUSAK The question is, what colour will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sk...
MARKUS ZUSAK There are skies manufactured by people, punctured and leaking,and there are soft,coal-colored clouds...
MARKUS ZUSAK He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would...
MARKUS ZUSAK He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK She was a Jew feeder without a question in the world on that man's first night in Molching. She was ...
MARKUS ZUSAK An attribute of Rosa Hubermann, she was a good woman for a crisis.
MARKUS ZUSAK Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in.
MARKUS ZUSAK If your eyes could speak, what would they say?.
MARKUS ZUSAK Don’t make me happy. Please, don’t fill me up and let me think that something good can come of a...
MARKUS ZUSAK The Germans in basements were pitiable, surely, but at least they had a chance. That basement was no...
MARKUS ZUSAK