Little Quotes

My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.

Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!

A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.

I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

I've learned that social media and our private lives, you know, our private lives are not so private anymore, so it takes a little bit of getting used to.

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

And you probably remember all of those papers and documents that they had published in the newspapers. And, you know, when you look at that, it really was their own little jihad that they had going. It just wasn't taken very seriously then.

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.

You know one of the things about going from modeling to acting is it's so much more fulfilling. With modeling, you get your picture taken, which is great, good for you, you know? But in acting, you're able to reach in and show a little bit more of yourself.

That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.

This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible.

So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.

New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

Big doors swing on little hinges.

If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.

There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy - they're basically pushy because of their enthusiasm - we're a lot clumsier than other people.

Chocolate is not cheating! After a salty meal, you need a little bit of sweet. This is living, not cheating.