I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

But Gemma, you could change the world.””That should take far more than my power,” I say.”True. But change needn’t happen all at once. It can be small gestures.””Moments. Do you understand?” He’s looking at me...

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don’t take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand,...

It’s great to do small plays in the theatre and then go off with Blur and play in front of thousands of people.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.

I had a small part in ‘Pineapple Express.’

It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It’s great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.

I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it’s where oil was pretty much discovered in North America.

Dream big dreams, but start small. A journey of thousand steps begins with a step.

I always thought models had to fit a certain mould. I never thought I had what it takes. I’m too small and my look’s pretty weird.

The hardest part of it was really being away from my family – I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn’t to be rejected. My purpose isn’t to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.

Consider every choice carefully, no matter how small, for it will affect the bigger decisions you make.

My parents made me finish high school before I started acting, and I did, like, two weeks of fine arts college before I was like, ‘This sucks. I’m going!’ I got a few small jobs,...

I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to...

Small business is the backbone of our economy. I’m for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

I find it hard to do small roles sometimes.

We have an internal check and balance system. By design we are so filled with possibility, opportunity, with greatness that when we live small, within the bottom of our capability, we innately know we should...

Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was...

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year – a small government proposal if ever there was one.

When I was a small kid, I grew up in the newspapers.

Actually, because I’m so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That’s how hard I play,...

Reddit, which calls itself ‘The Front Page of the Internet,’ is more influential in shaping Internet culture than its comparatively small reach would lead you to believe.

There’s no problem with starting small. The bigger problem is remaining small

Is life so wretched? Isn’t it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Latter-day Saints, having received the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, are entitled to personal inspiration in the small events of life as well as when they are confronted with...

Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.

I was anorexic in the ’60s and ’70s, although it wasn’t called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn’t high on my...

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

Meeting everyone you wanted to know in the small surf industry, I saw how the surf trade was made up of characters that not only surfed, but were able to develop a business out of...

Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in the world attracts the jealousy of others in much the...

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

The Obama administration is not helping small businesses create jobs. In fact, it is responsible for the regulatory uncertainty nearly 50 percent of small-business owners cite as responsible for their lack of hiring.

I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren’t many Nigerian families in that town, and a lot of people couldn’t say Uzoamaka.

I keep only a small edit in my wardrobe because I think it is important to keep things moving through, and I like to find out which pieces from my collections work and which could...

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

I really like singing, but coming from a small town like where I grew up, how do you start that journey?

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

It is usual that little streams put their mouths into big rivers. Most rivers can also be traced to the big sea. The fact that you start with a small choice does not mean you...

We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we’re small, nature’s big, and it’s everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen – a huge earthquake, tsunami, or volcanic...

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.

The tenacious character I’ve possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

I’m not an academic, but I’ve always loved poetry since I’ve been small.

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.

Doing things in my day was simple: you either signed to a big label or you signed to a very small label, and you worked with that one, and then they eventually signed you on...