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Quotes About Small

Village life can be terribly unpeaceful!
~ Iris Murdoch
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better. Life
~ Iris Murdoch
The flat was small and smelt of ancient things with which Gildas had not contended. In the sitting room shadowy photographs of Italian lakes had been hung high up by a previous tenant.
~ Iris Murdoch
This was a matter of some small group of guerrillas in some distant caves, a primitive, fanatical, and desperate people who didn't have the resources to intimidate the United States.
~ Isabel Allende
I tried to show my affection and gratitude with small attentions, but he would not allow it; he was not used to receiving affection, although it was his nature to squander it on others.
~ Isabel Allende
This poor little one-horse town.
~ S. L. Clemens
There will always be an England While there's a country lane Wherever there's a cottage small Beside a field of grain.
~ Clark Ross Parker
Oh, it's a snug little island! A right little, tight little island!
~ Thomas Dibdin
O, it's a snug little island! A right little, tight little island!
~ Thomas Dibdin
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
~ Russell Baker
The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.
~ Seamus Heaney
The finest lesson I've learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I'm judging myself.
~ Lake Bell
My heart is drawn to the small, out-of-the-way things that I can't help but to give my focus and attention and care, 'cause they shut off what hijacks my brain and help to tune out what can cause me pain.
~ Mark Kozelek
Tunisia is small - just ten million, no great natural resources.
~ Elliott Abrams
I'm really small, so I think if I shrink, I'd turn into a puddle.
~ Millie Bobby Brown
The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.
~ William Langewiesche
I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.
~ Jesse McCartney
Tyrone, I think they're taking to festivals. I don't know which festivals it will be at. It's like a buddy picture. It's a couple of guys driving across the country and they get to a small town and they hit a guy. The guy turns out to be a drug smuggler.
~ Ethan Suplee
I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
~ Barbara Sukowa
When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as the markets and the French obsession with buying fresh food, often twice a day.
~ Alice Waters
You can't write about a horrible restaurant - if it's a Ma & Pa restaurant no one wants to see you kick Ma & Pa in the chops.
~ Robert Sietsema
You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan.
~ Satyajit Ray
All my friends make really small, naturalistic, dialogue-heavy movies, so I'm kind of used to that. I didn't want my movie to be rambly and I didn't want it to be cutesy, or quirky, or clever.
~ Sophia Takal
"Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small in others and non-existent in others.
~ Van Jones