Small Quotes

• When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

  

  George McGovern
  • Small
  • Serious

• In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.

  

  Alexander Dale Oen
  • Good
  • Control
  • Ballet

• America is a country that, even with all its flaws, has been able to flourish because there is a certain ideology about fighting for what you believe in. What you choose to believe in - no matter how small or big it is - is what you believe in, and that ideology has made America.

  

  Kim Jee-woon
  • Believe
  • Country
  • America

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

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • Small
  • Desire
  • Clever

• Before 'Fallen,' I'd written love stories and more love stories. I'd fallen in love with love stories - but they were also beginning to feel just a little bit too insular, too small.

  

  Lauren Kate
  • Small
  • Beginning

• Digital assets, including bitcoin, could save small businesses substantial transaction fees and provide an added layer of security to their payment processing.

  

  Perianne Boring
  • Small

• Small businesses are a risky proposition, and most celebrities want a home run.

  

  Marcus Lemonis
  • Home
  • Small

• In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in 'Then Everything Changed' all begin with tiny, highly plausible twists of fate that lead to hugely consequential shifts in history.

  

  Jeff Greenfield
  • History
  • House
  • Fate

• I think there has been a long-running notion in the West that Asia was a continent of people that were really conquerable. That people from Asia were weak, they were small in all ways - including physically small, geopolitically small, economically small - all of which are changing, of course.

  

  Alex Tizon
  • People
  • Long
  • Running

• Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Small
  • Alone

• I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.

  

  Agnes Smedley
  • Small

• I think big-that's what my mother taught me. If you think small and accomplish it, what does it mean? Who cares? To me the sky's the limit, and I'm going to try and get there.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Mother
  • Sky
  • Accomplish

• Maryland needs someone in Congress who will fight to create jobs, stop out-of-control government spending and defend small businesses.

  

  Andrew P. Harris
  • Small
  • Control
  • Stop

• It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

  

  Ned Beatty
  • Small

• There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Work
  • Alone
  • Color

• I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Up
  • Small

• Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

  

  Epictetus
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Single

• Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • Should
  • Hours
  • Astonishment

• For so long, TV consisted of a limited number of shows a year, and those shows had to appeal to as many people as possible. The joy of TV now is that shows don't have to be broad anymore - they can be small, weird, and niche.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • People
  • Long
  • Joy

• Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what they're looking at - by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online.

  

  Clive Thompson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Experience

• What matters is how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives around us better.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Small

• At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Thinking
  • Universe
  • Moments

• Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like it. You hope it works.

  

  Jon Watts
  • People
  • Movie
  • Hope

• What's amazing is - I actually have problems getting it into my head - Canada is so big, right? And Ireland's small, you know; you drive from coast to coast in three hours.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Small
  • Amazing

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