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Quotes About Small

Normally, I'd believe that the saying 'There's no small parts, only small actors' is a load of crock because, more often than not, actors relegated to the small-part category stay in 'Who was that guy from that thing' purgatory - however, '90s sitcom 'Friends' proved that the saying is true.
~ Phoebe Robinson
With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
~ T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
~ Vicente Fox
First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.
~ Ibrahim Rugova
I write small and weird. Romcoms are not in my skill set.
~ Diablo Cody
I would love four children because I have a very small family, so I want those big Thanksgiving dinners.
~ Chrissy Teigen
If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.
~ Mother Teresa
I love surfing and bodysurfing. I love getting slammed by the waves - that makes me feel alive. The waves are a good reminder that I'm small and fragile.
~ Jason Mraz
Doing small things with love is the atom of bravery.
~ Mark Nepo
Some people find importance in the photographs of those titanic mushrooms of atomic poison which are periodically exploded over the world's deserts; I find greater importance in one very small mushroom which mysteriously springs up in the shadow of the tool-shed.
~ Beverley Nichols
I was learning that to be careful in small things made it much easier to handle the larger temptations as they came.
~ Bilquis Sheikh
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary
~ Blaise Pascal
Keeping the team small also relieved Maytag of some management chores. New people who weren't working out didn't have to be fired. They would leave of their own accord. They simply couldn't last in a small group of people without the support of their peers. Conversely, those who meshed with the culture were embraced by the group and given more responsibility, with Maytag scarcely having to say a word.
~ Bo Burlingham
I estimate that in six months' time the bones will be white and clean. I will gather them up and take them to the empty niche in the third north-western hall. I will place Valentine Ketterley next to the biscuit-box man. In the middle I will place the long bones tied together with twine. On the right I will place the skull. On the left I will place a box containing all the small bones.
~ Susanna Clarke
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals.
~ Sylvia Plath
It will be dark, And the shine of these small things sweeter than the face of Ishtar.
~ Sylvia Plath
Bez tej mi?o?ci mo?na ?y?, mie? serce suche jak orzeszek, malutki los naparstkiem pi? z dala od zgryzot i pociesze? (...)
~ Szymborska, Wislawa
Jellicle Cats are black and white Jellicle Cats are rather small Jellicle Cats are merry and bright And pleasant to hear when they caterwaul. Jellicle Cats have cheerful faces, Jellicle Cats have bright black eyes; They like to practise their airs and graces And wait for the Jellicle Moon to rise.
~ T.S. Eliot
The ants are bad The Bear the ants?Tahir Do not be fooled. They look very small, so harm you don't think of then at all. Then years. Then one day you wake up, and your home has fallen down. Osman.
~ Tahir Shah
Behind him, the town seemed small on its mount in that enduring clasp of the hills.
~ Tanith Lee
The pine needles stretch their tongues and sing an unfamiliar nocturnal song. Each tongue is so small that it cannot be heard; together the sound is so deep and powerful that it could level the hills if it wished.
~ Tarjei Vesaas
It was a Walther PPK, his favorite. Light and small but lethal.
~ Ted Bell
He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story
~ Ted Dekker
In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small). By reading any text of popular science we quickly regain the sense of the absurd, but this time it is a sentiment that can be held in our hands, born of tangible, demonstrable, almost consoling things. We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.
~ Julio Cortazar