Small Quotes

• 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
  • Small
  • Drawing

• The world is filled with successful small businesses that stay small.

  

  Kenneth Fisher
  • World
  • Small

• Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

  

  Bradley Cooper
  • Business
  • Small

• A lot of people come from small towns, and they come here wondering 'Can I really make it in Hollywood?' When I went to L.A., I knew I was going to make it. There's no doubt about it. Why? Because I'm from Chicago!

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • People
  • Why
  • Doubt

• A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it is more-it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on. It is every fly and bee and beetle that uses it for shelter or food, every bird that nests in its branches. Every one an individual, and yet every one part of the tree, and the tree part of every one.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Food

• I grew up in a small town in Sudan. There weren't many cars, so we did things in the countryside near where we lived.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Up
  • Small

• Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Life
  • Small
  • Profound

• To the extent that anyone anywhere does anything interesting, the question is: 'Why isn't Apple doing that; why is Apple behind in that?' We aren't the Everything Company. We take on a very small number of things that we do very well, and we find that pretty rewarding.

  

  Craig Federighi
  • Why
  • Pretty
  • Interesting

• The small family farm is dying; people's lives are being dislocated.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • People
  • Family
  • Dying

• If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • God
  • Want
  • Ocean

• I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.

  

  Art Linkletter
  • People
  • Why
  • American

• I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Town
  • Depressed
  • Main Street

• I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good.

  

  Alan Ladd
  • Good
  • Long
  • Small

• I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.

  

  Anne Enright
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Small

• The small are always dependent on the great; they are 'small' precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other 'greats' and who can transform it in an original manner.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Work
  • Great
  • Independent

• As a small kid, I had this huge desire to be thought of as really clever.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • Small
  • Desire
  • Clever

• In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.

  

  Ellen Gilchrist
  • Small

• I love small films, and I love films being seen in a theater. I love film, and unfortunately, that's being phased out.

  

  Valerie Faris
  • Small

• The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to seaIn a beautiful pea green boat,They took some honey, and plenty of money,Wrapped up in a five pound note.The Owl looked up to the stars above,And sang to a small guitar,'O lovely Pussy! O Pussy my love,What a beautiful Pussy you are,You are,You are!What a beautiful Pussy you are!'

  

  Edward Lear
  • Up
  • Money
  • Beautiful

• I didn't even know I was the first female Republican campaign manager until someone pointed it out to me on Twitter, and I said that can't be true. And then I realized this must be such a small group of women. And right away, I know them all - Susan Estrich and Donna Brazile and Beth Myers - and I respect them enormously.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • Women
  • True
  • Respect

• I think it is worse [in 2015] for a mid-list author such as myself. You either have to sell like Stephen King or go with the small presses where there is no money. I was lucky to have been in the right place and time for many years.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Money

• We'd love it if everybody had a Kickstarter project. I believe that everyone has some kind of creative project that they think about - whether it's something small they'd like to do over a weekend with friends, or it's the film they've always wanted to make, whatever.

  

  Perry Chen
  • Believe
  • Friends
  • Weekend

• The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

  

  Chanakya
  • People
  • Sleep
  • Dog

• I'm not a 'messiah' coming to change Washington. I don't come with a political background, so I think it's part of my responsibility to raise my hand and say 'Why?' Folks don't just want smaller government; they want an efficient small government.

  

  James Lankford
  • Why
  • Political
  • Hand

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