Small Quotes
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We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.
Bertrand Russell
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Zola Budd: so small, so waif-like, you literally can't see her. But there she is
Alan Parry
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The machine may even carry mail is special cases. But the useful load will be very small. The machines will eventually be fast, they will be used in sport, but they are not to be thought of as commercial carriers.
Octave Chanute
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The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And you can do that with the motions of stars.
Andrea M. Ghez
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Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
Albert Hofmann
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The world is such a small place.
Angela Robinson
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By the late 1980s, there was the beginning of awareness about a significant global landmine problem, and small steps were being taken to try to deal with the problem.
Jody Williams
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San Francisco is one of my favourite cities in the world...I would probably rank it at the top or near the top. It's small but photogenic and has layers...You never have problems finding great angles that people have never done.
Ang Lee
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This is an excellent program. Nobody has said it has done a bad job. It is small. There are only about 50,000 visas a year. ... As I ride my bike around New York City on the weekends, I see what immigrants do for America. This program has dramatically helped.
Chuck Schumer
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A big misconception is that a black hole is made of matter that has just been compacted to a very small size. That's not true. A black hole is made from warped space and time.
Kip Thorne
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Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?
A.M. Homes
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We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.
Martin Ryle
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I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.
Jeffrey Skoll
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We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do.
Marsha Blackburn
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I'm pretty casual. I love Free People and small vintage boutiques.
Margaret Qualley
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If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.
Lenny Kravitz
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It's really easy to take something small and make it big in your head and fight against it.
Norman Reedus
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I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It's not whether you're from a big city or the middle of nowhere in a small town.
Rodney Atkins
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The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked.
Craig McCracken
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I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.
Jim Broadbent
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I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.
Brad Grey
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Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.
Georg Buchner
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This is a small, limited experience, but it has enough follow-up to show us that tissue engineering is a viable tool that will allow us to tackle problems of similar magnitude.
Anthony Atala