Small Quotes

I want a Mini-Cooper because it's fuel efficient, emissions efficient and all that stuff. It's small and better for the environment. I think that will be my next car.

~ Christina Ricci

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.

~ Aaron Sorkin

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.

~ Ronald Steel

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

~ George Washington

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

~ Robert Collier

I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it's a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It's one of my great loves.

~ Jerry Hall

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.

~ Rita Dove

Men don't pay attention to small things.

~ Katherine Johnson

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

~ Jeremy Taylor

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

~ Martin Luther King

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

~ Rupert Murdoch

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.

~ Luc Besson

Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

~ Olga Korbut

As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.

~ Glenn Turner

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

~ Pam Brown

It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.

~ Dorothy Hamill

I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's a little hard when you go home and people are like - and that's why people think I'm gay - because they're like 'Why aren't you married?' And I'm like, 'it doesn't happen for everyone right off the bat.'

~ Kelly Clarkson

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

~ Terry Mcmillan

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

~ Anthea Turner

Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there's a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I'm no longer alone.

~ Edward Snowden

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

~ Lewis Grizzard

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

~ Eliot Engel

The way to make the world a better place, through your eating, is simply to eat a bit less meat. Local is sometimes good, sometimes bad. But even when it's good, its environmental impact is relatively small compared to other possible improvements.

~ Tyler Cowen

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

~ Charles Dickens

If you see how carefully I prepare for any kind of walk, legal or illegal, small or big, you will see that, actually, I narrow the unknown to virtually nothing. And that's when I am ready to walk on the wire.

~ Philippe Petit

I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.

~ Rachel Sklar

I'm old school. We're from a small town in Georgia, and I think if we do pictures before the wedding, I think I'm gonna be blindfolded.

~ Brantley Gilbert

I grew up in a very small town, but it happened to be in western Massachusetts, where there were a lot of gay people. I remember my aunt going to a gay wedding when I was 11, and I thought it was the coolest thing.

~ Elizabeth Banks

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

~ Mick Jagger

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

~ Daniel Radcliffe

I come from a very, very small town. There were no other actors around. I never met any actors. A lot of those times when I'd be out in the sheds with my dad, I'd step outside, and there's just nothing out there but thousands of acres, forty thousand sheep, and miles of nothing. And so my mind would just wonder about what else was out there.

~ Jason Clarke

I remember taking my stabilisers off my bike with my dad in the back garden. It was a small little bike, and it was called Poppy, had balloons on it, and was purple.

~ Lizzie Armitstead

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

~ Jim Rohn

The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.

~ Heather Brooke

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.

~ Freeman Dyson