Little Quotes

Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.

And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.

It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.

A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears all the rappers, they're doing my dances and they're making billions doing my dances. When they do that little thing they do with their hands that's The Fly and The Pony.

I adore the incredibly tight clothing! My own wardobe's changed - I've streamlined a little bit and definitely learnt from Joan's sleekiness and tailoring.

It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.

In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement.

I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.

When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane.

One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.

Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.

I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.

I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more.

Who knows? Maybe years from now I'll be on a ranch in Colorado with 10 kids. The whole point of life is to experience a little bit of everything, and I think it's better when there are a few surprises thrown in.

What we were seeing was a little bit like throwing the apple up in the air and seeing it blast off into space.

I just banged it a little bit on a helmet. And you know, if you get your throwing motion and momentum going at a helmet it makes it hurt a little more and it freaks everybody out because it's your throwing shoulder, but honestly, it feels great.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at once.

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.

We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world.

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.