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The World Almanac' tells about the world. Maybe the little bits are trivia, in and of themselves, but the more you know about that, the more you know about the world.

It was all over the place -- little bits of crack here, paraphernalia. It was on the bed, on the floor.

You have to think of it as a long-term proposition. You need to take it in bits and pieces at a time. Don't try and absorb it all at once.

With 'Scratch,' our goal is to allow people to mix together all kinds of media, not just sounds, in creative ways. We want people to start from existing materials - grabbing an image, grabbing some sound, maybe even bits of someone else's program, and then extending them and mixing them to make them their own.

Writers can take offense when someone asks what's real or autobiographical in our work because, to us, that's not what counts. The bits taken from life are tiny scales on the dragon's tail - what about that whole beautiful writhing, fire-breathing dragon?

There is nothing in there that I can say is going to be earth-shattering or reveals something that people don't already know. But I think the bits and pieces of my life during that period are well represented.

To what level will he be at when he comes in here? I don't know that. I know this - he is very diligent about wanting to get started. He's chomping at the bit to try to get us to give him bits and pieces so he can get going.

With theater, depending on the audience, the show is different every night and really requires your constant concentration. With film, it's more possible to focus for shorter, more intense bits of time.

Scientific American tries to present information that has relevance to society and political policy. However, there's the problem of science literacy, since audiences are increasingly used to seeing things on television carved into little bits for them.

Sometimes I regret that the wonderful children's stories that have been made into movies were - people no longer read 'The Wizard of Oz'; they think they know the story. They don't know anything about all the bits and pieces they had to leave out.

Sounds like everybody has the radio on, I catch bits and pieces from building to building.

Coming up with comedy is hard, man. Those bits aren't easy to think of!

Once the online deadline has passed and schools break up for Christmas, then we will get shoppers out for last-minute bits and pieces.

Declines will continue. There is only one new field of any size - the Buzzard field - set to come online. Otherwise it's just bits and pieces.

As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as classical bits on the radio.

Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.

American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious.

A lot of authors get by on the bits of money they get from various users of their work, and the Internet doesn't change all of that.

They say you're leaving out all the tough bits and offering a reduced Christianity that will be very popular but will be selling out.

People who have read the books get miserable because of all the bits that have been cut out. So I just read the script. That's the best way.

Sometimes when I do an overdub solo, they'll keep four or five of my attempts and then mix the bits that they like to make a solo up out of them. It's not against the rules, really - I can learn my own solos, then. But that's the whole beauty of multi-track recording, isn't it?

Our customers at HP-Oracle shops have been saying, 'We want the complete portfolio.' We had bits and pieces, but we didn't have the entire thing.

People pick up on some bits of the book in particular, like the bit about Jamie's sperm,

Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water.

This is the first time we have won the Edinburgh Cup so we are thrilled to bits and to achieve it by beating the favourites gives our taste of success extra flavour.

In lots of places, the Internet is like trying to shovel oatmeal down a straw. You know it's very difficult because the amount of bits that are being communicated and the services and routers in many places really aren't ready for the capacity,

I've got just bits and pieces on Madison. But we've never worried about that before, you know, about being matched up with anybody.

I'm not a great guitarist, but I do bits and bobs. I'm mainly a songwriter and a composer. I've done a lot of scoring and some stuff for British pop music that did pretty well, but I've mainly been working on my own stuff with Duncan Sheik.

In doing my podcast, I do find that I tend to try out bits that I then try on stage later that day. If they work, great, and if they don't, I regret having talked about it on the podcast.

I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries.

If I were to label the issue, it's one of program management and getting all the bits and pieces pulled together in the right order. We are still very hot on the technology. I don't think a six-month slip is a major impact from a product standpoint.

I like pre-production and post the best. I don't like shooting at all. I find it grueling and tough, but I love post and the whole process of seeing the film finally come together. You start ironing out all the rough spots, and the really bad bits you just throw away. So from day one of post to the last day, you see nothing but improvements.

I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.

I'm excited about this project because it ties in all the pieces of knowledge about water into one package. It's not that we don't know anything about water-we just have a lot of bits and pieces of information on it. We have no observations to tell us what's right or wrong, but hopefully this project will change that and have an impact globally.

The body itself is an information processor. Memory resides not just in brains but in every cell. No wonder genetics bloomed along with information theory. DNA is the quintessential information molecule, the most advanced message processor at the cellular level - an alphabet and a code, 6 billion bits to form a human being.

Once they sell off what they are calling isolated bits and pieces, they will just dig deeper to sell off more. This administration is draining the Treasury, putting us into hock, so it can say with a straight face that we have no money and there is no other solution but to privatize.

I want to show the richness of even the most disagreeable bits of life.

It took all of 15 minutes, but then I have my David Attenborough voice down and there wasn't a lot to do. Most of the time was spent waiting for the guys in Los Angeles to come on line. When they did we breezed through it in four quick takes in a pleasant recording studio, Audio for the Arts on South Blair Street, where they do The Onion. Madison was the original home of The Onion, before it moved to New York, and they still do the radio bits from here.

I just try to take bits and pieces wherever I can. Seeing how different people finish from around the game is the best way to do that.

I hope he doesn't start nitpicking little bits and pieces of it.

If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

I haven't really seen it played fully. I've seen bits and pieces of it. To me, it's a more specialized position, just like a setter is.

I remember my father saying one word to me as I would walk out to school every day: 'increments.' Every test, every quiz, every conversation with the teacher, it all added up to the final grade, which would affect where you went off to college and the rest of your life. All those little bits and pieces added up to something larger,

I just pick up my stories as I amble along, little bits of this, little bits of that. It gets easier the longer you've been at it.

But I think you could make it truer by making it up. In a way when people say it could have been non-fiction, that is gratifying because I've convinced them and they can't tell the bits I've made up from the bits I didn't make up.

But if all these things were the bits of tinsel and straw I made my nest out of, the way I felt while I worked was strangely different.

But we are able to show them a few bits and pieces that will open their eyes and make them think about their own vulnerability.

Honestly, not being evasive, but the great thing about Bond is that I have fifty years of movies - 23 movies and all the Ian Fleming novels and short stories, all of which are fodder. And when I'm working on the new Bond, I'm constantly going back to Fleming and the other movies - what are the bits and pieces, what are the resonances?

I don't really have a backlog of songs. I have more a backlog of ideas. I tend not to complete songs until I know there is something to complete for them. I have tapes full of chords and ideas, little bits and pieces, that I tend to put together whenever a project comes around.

Good things take time and I'm just absolutely thrilled to bits to have an outstanding young man like Brian in charge of our national team.

I'm a bit of a workaholic.

The voice bits will be virtually free, ... The carriers will make their money by offering enhanced services.

It takes much, much longer to film a show with so many setups and so many bits. It'd be much easier to do eight long bits and that's it.

It was painful at times. I've watched bits and pieces of the whole game several times this week and it was a tremendous basketball game and they just kept coming back.

I remember bits and pieces. I try not to dwell on it and remember it. I try not to think about it that much because it's not a good memory.

I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit.

I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.

An SOA is a collection of these services communicating with each other, either through simple passage of data or a coordinated effort to do a task. To get them to communicate, you need Web services. We used to buy a stereo system as a single integrated unit, all hardwired together--the speakers, the receiver, the tuner, and the turntable. Some stereos had a better receiver, while some had a better turntable. One day somebody figured, 'Hey, wouldn't it be great if we could mix and match components?' Now the bits and pieces work together, connected by standardized wiring.

Ah Love! Could thou and I with Fate conspire/ To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,/ Would not we shatter it to bits - and then/ Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

The goal is always to play the perfect game. I've just had bits and pieces so far.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

I've always been a bit of a car freak.

I'm a bit of a romantic.

You can't expect too much from the players, really. We started well and we had a good first quarter, but the little bits in between, we looked like we were a side that was playing their first game.

This is a logical extension of a successful business collaboration. We've done a lot of bits and pieces over the years. This is taking it to the next level.

I'm superstitious a little bit.

I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.

These firms are still in foot-in-the-door mode. They aren't getting entire companies to outsource: They're getting divisions and bits and pieces,

Perhaps nothing was ever “meant to be.” There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit “bendy.

I've done my bit for motion pictures-I've stopped making them.

I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs,

I think my drive to work has gone up a bit since I've gotten older.

If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.

There's nothing like having a bit of somebody else in you.

Each day is a little bit of history

If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I've no use for God.

We're gaily yet, we're gaily yet, And we're not very fow, but we're gaily yet; Then set ye awhile, and tipple a bit, For we's not very fow, but we're gaily yet.

It's not that the system is broken, but clearly there are ways to improve the system, strengthen it, to make sure that we can put together the various bits and pieces of information in a way that allows us to stop every single terrorist out there.

It's almost a CSI-type of case. ... You're left piecing together bits of evidence to try to ascertain what kind of jurists that they would be on the bench.

It's so rare, so that's why research gets so little funding. But for young people, and anyone with it, it robs them out of huge bits of their lives.

It was eye-opening for the students because they were literally picking up bits and pieces of people's lives.

It was a volunteer position and that was her whole life, it would take someone who had that time to commit (to replace her), or it would take a lot of different people getting together who have little bits of time that could work together, because it was done so hugely. That made me think that it's important for people to step up and try to do what they can do for Variety to continue that, and to bring it into focus so the contributions continue to keep coming in.

We've got all these bits of information in different institutions,

We weren't totally surprised, because during the summer, we'd get bits and pieces from the judges. When we found out for sure, it threw him for a loop. He literally had a week and a half of practice with his new program before he started competing.

We want to get bits into the customer's hands as quickly as possible.

It's funny, even yesterday when I was playing a practice round, I went through bits and pieces of what happened last year.

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us, we can dodge an elephant, but we can't a fly

There were a number of bits and pieces, and they weren't put together,

There were bits and pieces, but nothing substantial.

There's a suggestion that the roof in that part of the building is acting in very strange ways, and tension now comes into it. I hear the roof is completely safe because it has so much reserve strength, but towards the sides of the chamber will be bits that are not behaving as expected.

I could be quite happy working with, like, about four bits of my favorite equipment forever, 'cause it's got infinite possibilities.

GPS is expensive because it is a very slow communication channel - you need to communicate with three or four satellites for an extended duration at 50 bits per second.

Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels like different bits of my head are springing into action.

It all went a bit grape-shaped.

For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.

If you hire people who are smarter than you, maybe you are showing that you are a little bit smarter than them.

I'm a bit of a groupie.