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.

That is why we wholeheartedly support the American-led effort to free the people of Iraq. And though we are a small country with a small military, we are proud to stand side by side with...

I enjoy science, and I’m a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we’re fighting against. They’re just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at the bottom.

They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I...

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

I’m a mother with two small children, so I don’t take as much crap as I used to.

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

I have one dream: I want to get my jet pilot license, and take my jet to 40 000 feet, look down, and realise how small we are. Not for the kick of the G’s...

There is no better source of real-time news than Twitter. With the constant sharing of news and information, if you’re an active Twitter user, there’s nothing happening, big or small, that you won’t know right...

Dwarves are very much of the earth and feel connected to the earth; considering gravity, their weight is low, but they’re not small.

You can’t always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager’s got some sphere of autonomy. Don’t...

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, ‘No, this not real cheating.’ So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and...

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

It might be like you are still far from getting there, but remember, you are closer to it than you were yesterday. Every tiny step you take counts a lot!

As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject...

In the past 3-4 years I’ve developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I’m able to commit to tape memory song ideas...

Why – because as a oil and gas small business owner – I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

I don’t take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.

There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play.

Don’t ever reject a smallwhen you can’t take it all.

When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.