Little Quotes

I used to love going into local hardware stores, to look at little things they made locally. Nowadays it's harder, though you can still do it in Vietnam.

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.

I like making little videos and little records. I've always loved video cameras and four-track cassette recorders, still cameras, anything.

I thought, 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to videotape it.' So I got out my little video recorder and was taping goodbyes to my family.

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.

Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.

The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.

Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.

I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.

There is no one magic move or secret that creates victory, but lots of little items that when added together can make you victorious.

When running to fill a time quota, however, the reverse happens. You can't make that time pass any faster by rushing, so you settle into a pace that feels right to you at the moment. Each minute above a quota is a little victory.

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.

I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.

I guess because I was on the 'Early Show' for so many years, any little victory here is something kind of new for me.

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.

There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.

We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly.

You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable.

I love to take care of people, so I think I'd be a good vet. I always wanted to be a vet when I was little.

As a veteran, you're a little more poised on that mental side. But athletically, I didn't really think I could get better.

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.