Small Quotes

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.

I like throwing snowballs at small children.

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

God's creatures, great and small... eat them one, eat them all.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.

And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails.

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.