My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.
Paul Lynde

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke

I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
Pamela Anderson

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.
Nicholas Sparks

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.
Harry Houdini

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Charles de Montesquieu

No; small timers get into it, and ruin it for everyone.
John Dillinger

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver

I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.
Alicia Keys

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.
Anna Freud

I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh.
John Cleese

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

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
Jesse Jackson

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
Lynn Abbey

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
Irving Babbitt

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
Lewis Grizzard

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
Linus Torvalds

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
Samuel Johnson

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
James Thurber