Quotes About Small

There were the twins, faces vacant with concentration as they walloped small red balls attached to paddles. Pat-a-pat-a-pat-a-pat-a-pat-a-pat-a-pat-a-pat-a . . . They'd been jai-alai-ing all this time. Despite himself, Dexter smiled.

Even now he felt the whiff of his father's disapproval—for having overreached, or become a celebrity (and thereby a target), or failed to heed his father's lectures (delivered liberally to this day from the helm of a small motorboat his father used to fish along the Florida coast), whose refrain, to Bix's ears, was: Think small or get hurt.

There's a small army of people right here in Boston who've undergone the operation in Africa—" "Africans!" snorted Dr. Douglass. "Idiots!

I think I've got a map in my car that wants to be used, and I think there are places we can go that need to be seen. Maybe no one else will ever visit them and appreciate them or take the time to think they're important, but maybe even the smallest places mean something. And if not, maybe they can mean something to us.

This sounded the death knell of small family businesses, soon to be followed by the disappearance of the individual entrepreneur, gobbled up one by one by the increasingly hungry ogre of capitalism, and drowned by the rising tide of large companies.

a kind of breathing space in a Paris that was too small, too stuffy for the ambition in their breasts (65)

Not with a club, the Heart is broken Nor with a Stone – A Whip so small you could not see it I've known

The small heart cannot break. The ecstasy of its penalty solaces the large.

How a small dusk crawls on the village

Daffy bent down suddenly, and picked a small startled white flower. Anemone, he said, handing it over; he made her repeat the word until she had it right. Find me a silk to match that.

I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating.

The Ocean is big, I am small, yes. But I am nothing, And I realize that it is worth the struggle To Live And it means everything to be loved

How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.

You know, we queens loathed rain at the beach, small cocks, and reality, I think. In that order.

I watch the Premier League every weekend. I think it's fantastic. One thing you notice is that the teams considered small are capable of surprising the likes of Chelsea, Manchester United and City.

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.

Even when I'm reading a script where I'm supposed to be looking at the lead role, I'll find myself gravitating toward some small weirdo in a few scenes instead. I'm very instinctive like that and I love the challenge of not having a lot of time to create someone who feels real.

If you're a large organization, you may welcome a bit of regulation to keep the small guys out.

The numbers that we can welcome to our own countries are relatively small in comparison to the millions that have been displaced, but it's vital because it sets an example.

I'll tell you my legacy: I wasn't welcome. I was too small. I couldn't play the game the way they wanted me to play the game. Sound like an uneven game to me. Put me on a level playing field, and I'll show you.

Cardiff is one of the smallest Premier League venues, but it's a good atmosphere and everything is so close. Obviously me being Welsh is even better.

West Virginia is a relatively small state. There are only a handful of football players that come out of West Virginia.

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in western Utah - was a really small school. It wasn't developed. We didn't have the funds to do anything like that, but I did act all through high school in films because Disney Channel would shoot movies out there.