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Quotes About Small

Whether you work with a small or corporate press, the important thing is to have realistic expectations in terms of sales, promotion, and the work you have to do as an author promoting your novel.
~ Joe Meno
I think local shopping areas and markets are terribly important, both for tradespeople and the local feeling of an area.
~ Prunella Scales
Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.
~ Joseph Nye
My mantra is, 'Don't be afraid of color.' What did it do to you? Do a color testing in alternate kinds of light you desire in the room because the pigment will change. And I refuse to believe that pale pale or white colors in a small room will buy you more square footage. Go with color all the way.
~ Bryan Batt
Et si j'obtiens de bons résultats, on pourra se faire un petit braquage pendant les vacances d'été ?
~ Robert Muchamore
He had a sensitive drained face the face of a small boy lost on the Fairgrounds after everyone has gone home.
~ Robert Nichols
It's a small matter, but one which I think shouldn't be overlooked. - Oh Yes? And that is? - That is the simple matter that time travel is an impossibility, you craven buffoon! - Not with the latest miracle of modern horticulture...Gentlemen, please allow me to introduce you to THE TIME SPROUT ! 'Pleased to be here' said the vegetable in question.
~ Robert Rankin
There were large and small ones too. And some quite in-between. But all of equal nastiness. And smelliness and ghastliness. For they would eat a fellow up, as one might fish and chips
~ Robert Rankin
And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.
~ Robert Seymour Bridges
His lessons cautioned me that great events often hinged on small ones. (Bee talking about the Fool)
~ Robin Hobb
the small delights of the flesh were sometimes the most potent medicine against the deep pains of the spirit.
~ Robin Hobb
Her life was a scattering of small moments, bits of meaningful conversations, and bright dashes of beauty where least expected.
~ Robin Jones Gunn
Mosses are successful by any biological measure—they inhabit nearly every ecosystem on earth and number as many as 22,000 species. Like my niece finding small places to hide, mosses can live in a great diversity of small microcommunities where being large would be a disadvantage.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Her tiny butt
~ Lisi Harrison
Brightport looked so small: a cluster of low buildings, all huddled around a tiny horseshoe-shaped bay, a lighthouse at one
~ Liz Kessler
But somehow the small red-painted sled had become a symbol of courage and hope.
~ Lois Lowry
Gabriel had been bathed and was lying, for the moment, hugging his hippo placidly in the small crib that had replaced the basket
~ Lois Lowry
I do not have a claustrophobia thing. I have a perfectly rational dislike of being locked up in small, dark, wet spaces by people trying to kill me.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
We feel ourselves moving so minusculely against some process, some momentum, that we become inadvertently a part. We feel too small to fight. Desperation, laziness, horror--they all resemble one another in their flickering movements within us, the same thrashing shorthand. Ma cherie, is this our stop? We feel enslaved--is that what it is--in some turning: of milk to rot to dirt and winds and then to what--to sleep? to stars? Time for another constellation!
~ Lorrie Moore
for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
~ Louisa May Alcott
My little girl, I would face a dozen storms far worse than this to keep your soul as stainless as snow; for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity, unless we watch and pray, and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Small bookstores have the romance of doomed intimate spaces about to be erased by unfettered capitalism.
~ Louise Erdrich
Rockefeller spent a ridiculous amount of time protesting bills both large and small and scrutinized the smallest bills from grocers and butchers.
~ Ron Chernow
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
~ Ronald Reagan