Small Quotes

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.

Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.

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.

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.

Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.

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 became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked.

We've got to help small businesses because they are the backbone of our economy. We've got to increase opportunities for everyone and we can do that by helping women and minority-owned businesses.

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.

I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.