Small Quotes

• I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Music
  • Age
  • Strong

• I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • Small
  • Growing

• In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Important
  • Choose
  • Quarters

• The best thing government can do now is get out of the way and let small businesses innovate, hire and grow. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen unless Washington stops increasing regulations, taxes and other blocks to business growth.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Business
  • Government
  • Growth

• I remember living in a pretty small neighborhood where you could play in the streets and run around like crazy. My friends and I would ride our bikes around, but instead of just riding our bikes, we were solving crimes and going out in the woods to see what lay out there.

  

  Maulik Pancholy
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Pretty

• Selling to small businesses and selling to enterprises take two very different approaches with two very different kinds of people.

  

  Jason Fried
  • People
  • Different
  • Small

• A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.

  

  Fred Hoyle
  • Universe
  • Fly
  • Blow

• I have a very small public.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Small
  • Public
  • Very

• We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Country
  • Small
  • Build

• American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Life
  • American
  • Small

• When I speak at events, I often wear my dad's ties and my mom's earrings. It's a small, almost secret way of having them with me when I'm up there onstage, talking to a roomful of strangers. It makes me feel safe.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Up
  • War
  • Father

• The things that I've learned is, try to make all the mistakes with your own money and on a small level so that when you are responsible for a partner's money or assets, you've learned, and you don't make bigger mistakes.

  

  Daymond John
  • Money
  • Small
  • Partner

• I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Up
  • Different
  • Same

• We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Small
  • Purpose
  • Door

• I have a very small platform, and if I can use that to reach some kid who's teased for being effeminate or likes clothes, then I've done my job.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Done
  • Job
  • Small

• At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Entrepreneur

• Once upon a time, there was a little creature that was rather small and rather wicked and it lived all alone in the woods. The little creature lived in a little den, at the bottom of a little ravine, filled with not-at-all little brambles and on the edge of a forest that could only be described as really freakin' huge.

  

  Ursula Vernon
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Forest

• I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • History
  • Small
  • Liberals

• My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi.

  

  Angie Thomas
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Nature
  • Style
  • Human Nature

• Sometimes eight chains go together really well, depending on the length - how short they are, how small they are.

  

  Big Sean
  • Together
  • Small

• No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Country
  • Power
  • Control

• That's what I love about the Internet. Even if it's small-scale and you're just posting on a forum, that's an uncensored expression. That's what I love.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Love
  • You
  • Internet

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