Small Quotes

The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of life and chaos, 24 hours around the clock, just like in London. And whatever your problem is, it's insignificant. You're just a small part of something very big.

Everything looks cute when it's small.

Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?

With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get.

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.

I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.

Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod.

I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Blame is for God and small children.

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it has something to do with the period. Obviously, the artists have something to do with one another. They tend to set up certain common qualities among themselves.

I think you're much more approachable when you're on a small screen.

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.

I like small stories.

We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.