#larger

A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him." [An Invitation to Learning, January 1942] ↗

— Rex Stout

#dickens #larger-than-life #novels #presence #realism

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources. ↗

— Tom Allen

#animal life #area #commerce #energy #energy sources

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#back #bring #god #larger #lead

An actor should never be larger than the film he's in. ↗

— Christian Bale

#film #larger #never #should #than

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#back #growing #growing up #i #i think

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors. ↗

— Stella Adler

#always #best #even #experiences #great

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#grand #ignorance #increasingly #knowledge #larger

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#american businesses #any #businesses #country #federal

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet. ↗

— Rita Dove

#capable #i #i can #larger #laureate

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. ↗

— George Eliot

#chinese #else #feet #fixed #happiness