Small Quotes

We all act differently in certain places. We don't want to admit it, but we're different where we grew up than we are with our family and than we are with the guys that we went to college with or our fraternity brothers. People just exist differently. It's small, subtle things, but different colors come out. That's all there is to it.

~ Mike Colter

Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor. So, in many ways, my father was a sailor before I was born.

~ Tobias Lindholm

What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.

~ Nancy Carell

Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.'

~ Bill Skarsgard

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

~ Adolf Loos

To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.

~ Mario Botta

I loved medieval architecture when I was very small I don't know why.

~ Andrew Lloyd Webber

To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.

~ Greg Lynn

I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.

~ Fred Thompson

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.

~ Richard Grant

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation.

~ Slobodan Milosevic

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.

~ Penelope Leach

I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out of there.

~ Douglas Coupland

Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.

~ Joan Rivers

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

~ Woody Allen

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

~ Anthony Bourdain

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

~ Alton Brown

I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin - 'from the garden.' I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but there are lots of wild boars all around and they steal the food.

~ Jean Dujardin

If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of the cost of organic food.

~ Ruth Reichl

I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

~ Georgia O'keeffe

When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.

~ Travie Mccoy

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

~ Ralph Ransom

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

~ Truman Capote

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Once a bustling logging town, Sandpoint has embraced its natural beauty to become an amazing resort town drawing people near and far to enjoy its beauty and recreational possibilities. It's truly a small town with a huge backyard.

~ Nate Holland

It doesn't matter if you're small, big, or fit: if you go in front of the camera and deliver and say, 'Oh my God, I look amazing,' and just be sure about yourself, everything will be perfect.

~ Irina Shayk

There's something about small venues that's amazing for developing material. It's almost like you can not only hear people's response, but you can understand it. In bigger venues you lose that, but you gain this sense of camaraderie in the audience.

~ Mike Birbiglia

'Sound of My Voice' is an amazing film. Small, simple, yet incredibly thought provoking.

~ Reid Scott

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

~ Eckhart Tolle

If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.

~ Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

~ Norman Mailer

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

~ Sydney J. Harris

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

~ Richard Dawkins

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

~ Henri Poincaré

With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get.

~ Jo Brand

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 big chance. You would be coughing and coughing. It wouldn't last for a few days, like a cold.

~ Anthony Fauci

Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I'm not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong way.

~ Doug Stanhope