Little Quotes

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.

The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas.

When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.

My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny.That made me the coolest aunt on earth.

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.

It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.