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Quotes About Chunks

The fragmented contents of the previous night bubbled in my brain like a carelessly made fish stew. Indigestible chunks appeared on the surface, wobbled in the currents of memory, and sank again.
~ Richard K. Morgan
Khufu carefully picked out everything that ended with-o—Doritos, Oreos, and some chunks of meat. Buffalo? Armadillo? I was scared to even ask.
~ Rick Riordan
There was a sound like a garbage bag of pudding dropped off a tall building onto a sidewalk. Robert had erupted, chunks slapping off the walls in every direction.
~ David Wong
Interaction design is all about finding the user's truth and telling it as a narrative. Software development is all about breaking those narratives into tiny, functional chunks and implementing and integrating them.
~ Jeff Patton
I've got chunks of dead human in my garden smelling like month-old unicorn piss!
~ Kim Harrison
Science works with chunks and bits and pieces of things with the continuity presumed, and DeWeese works only with the continuities of things with the chunks and bits and pieces presumed.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
In stories told later, many boys would claim that the girls on Coffin Rock were decorated with chunks of raw turkey, soaked in poultry blood like the chick in fuckin' Carrie, but this was embellishment.
~ Joe Hill
In software, you don't want to release a huge chunk of code only to find out something's wrong with it. You release small bite-sized chunks so you can pick up problems quickly.
~ Roger Connors
We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.
~ Vince Cable
A pastry crust is arguably the least healthy (and most time-consuming) part of a quiche. Replacing pastry with richly browned chunks of sweet potato creates a similar buttery contrast and a satisfying bite.
~ Chris Morocco
The airliner-sized dragon blew apart in a monumental spray of blood and pulp. Great chunks of flesh the size of boulders rained down from the sky. "The empire is striking back," Ambassador Syme observed, peering out the window beside CJ.
~ Matthew Reilly
We want to defend the rights of Malaysians. We don't want to sell chunks of this country to foreign companies who will develop whole towns.
~ Mahathir Mohamad
It's tough working as a single parent, but I'm lucky enough to have chunks of time when I'm at home and a huge circle of friends and family, although my biggest extravagance is child care.
~ Tamzin Outhwaite
Nowadays, and speaking very generally, geological time is divided first into four great chunks known as eras: Precambrian, Palaeozoic (from the Greek meaning "old life"), Mesozoic ("middle life") and Cenozoic ("recent life"). These four eras are further divided into anywhere from a dozen to twenty subgroups
~ Bill Bryson
So . . . ," I said. "You're saying that by the end of our training, you expect us to be able to use grappling hooks made of energy to smash our enemies with flaming chunks of space debris ?" "Yes." "That . . . ," I whispered, "that's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard.
~ Brandon Sanderson
So…," I said. "You're saying that by the end of our training, you expect us to be able to use grappling hooks made of energy to smash our enemies with flaming chunks of space debris?" "Yes." "That…," I whispered, "that's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard.
~ Brandon Sanderson
reality just seems to come in certain undeniable chunks.
~ Stephen T. Asma
Scatter soaked hardwood chunks over your coals for a quick and easy way to add a smoky nuance to your grilled foods.
~ Emeril Lagasse
the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.
~ Terry Pratchett
Calculus succeeds by breaking complicated problems down into simpler parts. That strategy, of course, is not unique to calculus. All good problem-solvers know that hard problems become easier when they're split into chunks. The truly radical and distinctive move of calculus is that it takes this divide-and-conquer strategy to its utmost extreme — all the way out to infinity.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
All of my books have an internal geometric shape, and once I've seen the shape, then the writing gets much faster and easier because I now do know where we're going, and I know what's motivating these people, why they were here, and therefore, I have some good idea how they got there, and so I can fill in the missing chunks somewhat more easily.
~ Diana Gabaldon
You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball-size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.
~ William Anders
Heartbreak is stupid and impossible. Hearts don't break. Hearts squeeze, they wrench, they ache, they shrivel. Hearts pull apart in wet chunks like canned tomatoes.
~ Jael McHenry
One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories.
~ Bill Williams