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Quotes About Small

Dear Gaffsie, believe me, we are so very small and insignificant, and so are our tea cakes and carpets and all those things, you know, and still they're so important, but always they're threatened by mercilessness.
~ Tove Jansson
I'm not a lion...I like small adventures. Just the right size.
~ Tove Jansson
she leaned forward over the table and whispered: 'This calm is unnatural. It means something terrible is going to happen. Dear Gaffsie, believe me, we are so very small and insignificant, and so are our tea cakes and carpets and all those things, you know, and still they're so important, but always they're threatened by mercilessness …
~ Tove Jansson
You know what I like about buttons?" he said, taking the button from Constance and gazing at it admiringly. "They're very small things that hold bigger things together. Awfully important, buttons — little but strong.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
The big bad assassin terrified of itty-bitty scavengers.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Baby," Cricket said to the egg. "Small dragon. This would be a VERY SILLY place and time to hatch. Do not do it." A claw poked straight through the crack and wiggled gleefully at her.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
they belonged to a small MudWing with a healing mud patch stuck across his nose. His
~ Tui T. Sutherland
toothpick claw things
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Technology = Leverage Startups offer anyone a way to be in a situation with measurement and leverage. They allow measurement because they're small, and they offer leverage because they make money by inventing new technology.
~ Paul Graham
Nothing makes a better gravy than several fresh squirrels–and squirrels are so small that it does take several to make even a few servings.
~ Paul Prudhomme
Watch the little things in life, the ones you have control over. Keep your eyes glued to the peas and every speck of dust on the floor.
~ Paul Zindel
Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.
~ Paulo Coelho
But no, it was not the small single moment which had killed him. It was the anger of all his life here in this house which he himself had built and lived in and hated all his years.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.
~ Laurie R. King
Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large.
~ Mas Oyama
I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.
~ Thomas Kinkade
Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.
~ Fred Allen
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
~ M. Night Shyamalan
We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
~ Anne Enright
I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'
~ Steve Kazee
With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
~ Norman Mailer
I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.
~ Zach Braff
La explicación histórica que hemos presentado hasta ahora indica que cualquier enfoque basado en el determinismo histórico (basado en geografía, cultura o incluso en otros factores históricos) es inadecuado. Las pequeñas diferencias y la casualidad no forman parte solamente
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
Like they say,] small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
~ Unknown