In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and I went to a military academy for high school in Wisconsin. Then I...

Anger is smaller than the one behind him. (La colère, c’est plus petit – Que celui derrière lui)

The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or...

It might sound a small thing, but if you want to get Tom Cruise into your movie, without a track record or without those agents knowing you, it’s almost impossible. Now I can get through...

God hides great things in little things. In every young girl, God hides a great woman; in every young boy, He hides a great man; in a small seed, He hides a big forest! A...

The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence – a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute...

I realized that becoming a doctor, I can only help a small community. But by becoming a politician, I can help my whole country.

One thing I’d like to do is angel investing in small companies. That’s what’s exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.

I had a great time in high school. I really did. I went to a private Christian high school and I graduated in a class of 67 kids, so it was pretty small, and I...

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

Al-Nahda is a movement; it is not just a small party.

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

As you know, God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small.

Chicago ’68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I’ve talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was...

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don’t use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have...

Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come...

As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.

I call my thumb Napoleon, because I rarely ever lose a thumb war. Also because my thumb’s so small, and I wear a tiny funny hat and cape on it.

When you overlook the small blessings in your life, chances are that no amount of blessings would ever make you happy.

What’s very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.

Film-makers in Belgium are seen as arts and crafts makers. It is a small country. There is not really a film industry there at all.

I recently finished a job, an HBO movie ‘Getting On,’ a very dark comedy. It comes from a British series of the same name. In this role I have no hair, no make up and...

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an ‘only’ in that regard.

I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.

Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They’re really not. They’re just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to...

There is a pledge of the big and of the small in the infinite.

Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

I would love four children because I have a very small family, so I want those big Thanksgiving dinners.

It seems to limit you; when you’re working in an office, you’re a creature in a small cell under somebody’s supervision and surveillance.

Path is a well designed app with a singular purpose. For users who solely want to share with a small group of friends, and share everything with the whole group, it is very effective. And...

I love doing features, but it’s a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team, getting my hands on the clay.

I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work.

International markets are much bigger than the U.S. In Sweden we have 9 million inhabitants, and if you’re successful in Sweden, you’re not successful – it’s such a small market.

It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men.

The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.

Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

Whooping cough is not a mild disease. Whooping cough, before the vaccination, could make you very, very sick. First of all, there was a chance you could die from it – small chance, not a...

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.

And what most people don’t understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.

I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, an abnormal decrease of sugar in the blood. Eventually I learned to eat five small meals a day. Now if I’m making a movie and get hungry, I call time...

Tunisia is small – just ten million, no great natural resources.

Don’t despise the little steps you know you can take every day. There are tiny miracles in each and every one of them.