The Small Quotes

There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.

Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.

I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.

I had, over the years, collected things, small things, as people do, and I had put them all together and showed them in what became a building in the form of the Geometric Mouse.

I am a small-town girl.

I have a small child. Being a parent takes a lot of time. People always ask me, "What movies have you watched lately?" I tell them, "Finding 'Nemo' ... 'Shrek'.

Money talks. If it's the dollar, it's small talk.

In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked.

Thinking about starting a small business? Assume everything will cost twice as much and take twice as long as you think it will.

Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.

Remember that small steps can create giant leaps over time, so never think of any financial or spending matter as a small one.

Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality.

I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.

Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you.

It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, "hear voices" without worrying that something is wrong with you. I "heard voices" all the time as a small child.

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.

Small businesses are important, but so are tiny businesses.

He's a man...and that's no small thing to be.

In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community college. I'm also a proud mother of three and grandmother of six - all of them wonderful.

Remember the importance of small actions. They're the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day.

Eliminating the death tax is particularly important for the many small business owners and family farmers that call Central Washington home.

Obamacare is destroying our businesses, our small business and our big businesses.

You cannot even start a small business under the tremendous regulatory burden we have today in America.

Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country.

When my mother did fittings for her clients, I was hiding, looking at these beautiful ladies try on these fantastic clothes. I was dreaming as a small child to try these clothes on myself.

Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

Ever since I was a little kid, I always dreamed of being a Big City kid, because I grew up in a very small town up north in Canada. I have to say I just love the city lights at night.

Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.

When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.

Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.

Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.

Oddly enough, white is a dead tone in a small room. Choosing something with a more medium tone will make the space feel larger.

I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me.

As a small child me and my pals fantasised about one day owning an ice-cream van. To have ice creams on demand would have been a dream come true.

small talk comes from small bones

It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.

I'm not very much of a foodie; I like small amounts of delicious things, but I've never overeaten - I'd much rather have a glass of wine.

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

History never embraces more than a small part of reality

I never really acted at school. It was doing small parts on TV that really got me started.

You're going to merge your mind with the mind of eternity that goes on forever; that is not easy. It's very intense. I mean sitting on Mount St. Helens when it went off would have been small talk.

Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.

Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.

Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.