Small Quotes

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.
Richard M. Nixon

Fact, Married, Both

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
Leonard Cohen

Try, Writer, Explore

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong

Step, Mankind, Leap

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Great, Person, Exist

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Wilson Mizner

Great, Done, Desire

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
Alfred Hitchcock

Good, Children, Here

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.
Paul Ryan

Morning, Saying, Thinking

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance.
Pat Robertson

Young, Wind, Prison

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
Peter Ustinov

Future, Office, Room

We grow small trying to be great.
David Hockney

Great, Trying, Grow

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.
Marco Rubio

Business, Values, Community

Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.
Christina Aguilera

Trust, Mom, Friends

My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.
Tyra Banks

Light, Used, Head

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.
Christopher Hitchens

School, Language, Mistake

An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.
Gustav Mahler

Gay, Simply, Opera

The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.
Albert J. Nock

Thought, Moment, Wrong

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

Love, Work, Alone

Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.
Jerry Saltz

Love, Work, Art

I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.
Heidi Klum

Goal, Acting, Making

I like to play small clubs.
Willie Nelson

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

Work, Happiness, Matter

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
Lenny Bruce

Hate, Nothing, Else

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Work, Peace, Single

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
Jean de la Bruyere

Great, Person, Makes

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.
Christine Todd Whitman

Anyone, Fall, Difference

Small projects need much more help than great.
Dante Alighieri

Great, Help, Projects

That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.
Paul Ryan

Life, Society, Control

Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.
Paul Ryan

Life, Morning, Business

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Time, Last, Left

I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.
Daniel Radcliffe

Music, Lazy, Friends

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