“A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.”
Kim Stanley Robinson book The Years of Rice and Salt
Book 1: "Awake to Emptiness", Ch. 1
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
If the European Countries Impose Sanctions, They Will Be More Harmed than Us; If You Toy with Our National Pride, You Will Face a Firm Response http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1029.htm Feb. 2006. <br class="br">Lying in politics
“A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.”
Kim Stanley Robinson book The Years of Rice and Salt
Book 1: "Awake to Emptiness", Ch. 1
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
“Put on your big girl pants and deal.”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Variant: Pull up your big girl panties and just do it.
Source: Lover Avenged
“One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.”
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[199809151814.LAA22396@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998
“For my part, getting up seems not so easy
By half as lying.”
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) British writer
Morning Meditations (1839).
1830s
Bernie Sanders (1941) American politician, senator for Vermont
2016 Presidential Campaign Rally in Madison, Wisconsin, (1 July 2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OewBDIwy-O4 at 43:00 <br class="br">2010s, 2015
Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: The reason I got into magic was that it seemed to be what was lying at the end of the path of writing. If I wanted to continue on that path, I was going to have to get into that territory because I had followed writing as far as I thought I could without taking a step over the edges of rationality. The path led out of rational confines. When you start thinking about art and creativity, rationality is not big enough to contain it all.
Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876) Russian revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collectivist anarchism
"The Red Association" http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bakunin/works/writings/ch05.htm (1870)
“So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.”
Will Self (1961) English writer and journalist
Interviewed by The Independent on Sunday, April 1997. http://web.archive.org/web/19970429201840/http://www.bbc.co.uk/election97/news/0419/brief.htm