Small Quotes

I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early.

Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses.

Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.

The world's a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these things do get out.

When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.

I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.

And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC.

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

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.