Quotes About Small

There are some sites that pay, but access to them is quite limited. And a very small chunk of the population uses the Internet. So, a director goes on YouTube only for better reach.

I'm not going to head off and do a Marvel film. So if I don't do a Marvel film, I don't have any other choice - I've got to go make a small New Zealand movie!

That first snowdrop, the flowering of the rose you pruned, a lettuce you grew from seed, the robin singing just for you. These are smallthings but all positive, all healing in a way that medicine tries to mimic.

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.

Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.

If there is any state that typifies prototypical 'Murica' where the trucks and the guns are big and the social safety net is oh so small, it's Texas.

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.

Big producers trust the music directors. Small directors are insecure but like to experiment.

The truth is that the banks that are really hurting under Dodd-Frank, really getting no relief, are the community banks.

Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.

It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.

You – you . . .' Her words were drowned out in a flood of pain rising up within her, an anguish more thorough in shattering her than anything she'd yet suffered. She staggered back a step. Baudin's small, flat eyes held steady on her. Heboric cleared his throat. 'We'd best hurry.

The critical part of herself could well have sneered at the contrivance, as if the only genuine gestures were the small ones, the ones devoid of an audience. As if true honesty belonged to solitude, since to be witnessed was to perform, and performance was inherently false since it invited expectation.

This is how she now believes life happens. One small thing at a time. A series of inconsequential junctions, any or none of which can lead to salvation or disaster. There are no grand moments where a person does or does not perform the act that defines their humanity. There are only moments that appear, briefly, to be this way.

Do such infinitesimally small things exist in the real world? Quantum mechanics has something to say about that.

His research led him to one overwhelming conclusion, published in a seminal paper in 1975: big cities nurture subcultures much more effectively than suburbs or small towns.

Cross-country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

Grand plans, grand ambitions are easily reduced to ashes, whereas a small plan can sneak through to devasting effect

Barbara Eager, he was sure, considered herself to be an amateur poet, and probably ran a small writing circle in the village. She would have been easy prey, if he'd been interested.

Scandal, you know, in a small community like this, breeds all manner of intrigue.

Only a small rich fringe hates Social Security for disincentivizing 80-year-olds from seeking full-time employment.