Little Quotes

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special.

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come.

So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.

After September 11, I got to understand a little bit of his deep love for this country.

When Ben and I first got married and we first had kids, I felt I needed to prove we could still do it and I could still work separately from Ben and I could still work with him. I just let go of all of that now. I said to him, 'For me, a little bit goes a long way.'

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.

I got a feeling that when I have kids, I'm going to have a little girl, and she's going to be completely sensible.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

It's just a campy blast. I just want to do as little as I can and make it good, and try not to sell out. I'm sure I will, but I'm just trying to postpone it.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

I'm a selfish, little pig of a man.

And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

I've always said this and finally I had a chance to demonstrate it: The moderator should be seen little and heard even less. It is up to the candidates to ask the follow-up questions and challenge one another.

One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh.

Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.

I get to do all these really nice, little culty things. It seems to be the world that keeps inviting me back.

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.

The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.