Little Quotes

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

I was like a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now.

I used to say I would never run unless I was being chased by someone with a gun. Now I'm a little obsessed with it!

I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.

I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.

Well Brooke, I've always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had a crush on her.

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I talk fast, and they're not used to people talking that fast.

As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.

I'm not as involved in every little thing as I used to be.

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.

Maybe I'm a little more confident than I used to be, but not much.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

Look, I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. But if I wasn't in this position, I'm sure I would use it every day.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire?

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.