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Quotes About Small

An actor's success has the life expectancy of a small boy about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
~ Fred Allen
If there is a disease in the preaching that I hear most often, it's not that what the minister says is wrong. It's that it is just too small.
~ Fred B. Craddock
I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.
~ Freeman Dyson
What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.
~ Freeman Dyson
Du kan tenke dig seks bitte små mygg marsjerende over et forferdelig stort laken.
~ Fridtjof Nansen
The study's small ventilation window bumped open, and Vin squeezed through, pulling in a puff of mist behind her. She closed the window, then surveyed the room. "More?" she asked incredulously. "You found more books?" "Of course," Elend said. "How many of those things have people written?" she asked with exasperation.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Though some of them would disdain to say that there are net benefits in small acts of destruction, they see almost endless benefits in enormous acts of destruction
~ Henry Hazlitt
What there was no effective record of indeed was the small strange pathos on the child's part of an innocence so saturated with knowledge and so directed to diplomacy.
~ Henry James
Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.
~ Kate Middleton
Yes, I have a small coffee corner where I like to sit. It's right next to the windows and the power seat of the living area. When I sit there, I can see Bandra Reclamation in front of me.
~ Daisy Shah
Travelling to different countries is a goal. I wouldn't mind playing huge places if we got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said.
~ Mike Gordon
Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.
~ Rick Larsen
I grew up in the Midwest and never really felt at home there, and when I got to New York, I was really fearless. I feel like I really fell in love with the the place. But then, it's a place where your world is really big at first and then becomes really small. I found myself hardly leaving my neighborhood, like I made it into a small town.
~ Kevin Morby
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.
~ Brendan Gill
I love my cooking tools because I enjoy cooking - a Vitamix for smoothies and a rice cooker for steel-cut oats. I travel with a small rice cooker. I soak oats overnight, and when I get up, I just turn the rice cooker on, and it cooks the oats perfectly every time.
~ John Mackey
I always used to travel without a passport case, and because of it I think I'm four passports in. I bought this small Tumi case to protect my new one, and it works really well, not just for protecting it but also for keeping credit cards and small stuff. I just throw it in my bag when I'm traveling, as opposed to stuffed in my pocket.
~ Avicii
For me, one of the things that makes the X-Men so crucial is they are relatively small in number but they have the potential to have a tremendous impact on the society around them.
~ Chris Claremont
There are things that start small on Reddit, then they sort of gather and become major trends. Having said that, I mostly stay on the Top 100 page, so it's mostly just pictures of a dog looking like Chewbacca.
~ Neal Brennan
I think the biggest problem in clinical trials is that they are underpowered. And that fundamentally, the studies are just too small.
~ Anne Wojcicki
Nothing is more pathetic than having a small character in a big assignment. Many of us don't want to give attention to our character, we just want the big assignment from God.
~ Henry Blackaby
As you lay on a summer's day In a cool and shady place, Don't look up into the skies; Instead look down and squint your eyes. Squint your eyes so very tight, And if you wish with all your might, You'll find the land of More-Than-Small. In this land live buggs -- that's all!
~ Stephen Cosgrove
Consistent with the meaning of "bear arms" as carrying weapons on the person, Webster defined "pistol" as "a small fire-arm, or the smallest fire-arm used . . . . Small pistols are carried in the pocket."18 An arms historian notes: "Among eighteenth-century civilians who traveled or lived in large cities, pistols were common weapons. Usually they were made to fit into pockets, and many of these small arms were also carried by military officers.
~ Stephen P. Halbrook
God has always worked through the small, the insignificant, the powerless—it seems to be sewn into the very fabric of the universe.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird.
~ Stephen Vincent Benet