Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodi Picoult

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

However, to actually know what your seeing, a small telescope would be useful.

Andre Williams

It's going to be a while before any one of us want to get on a smaller plane, I think.

David Baltimore

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.

Daisaku Ikeda

What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

In a small town, there is a thin veil of anonymity,

Franz Kafka

I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

I'll explain, and I'll be sure to use small words so that you'll be sure to understand. You wart-hog-faced-buffoon!

I know Im small in a way, but I know Im strong.

He's probably the smallest individual, other than the consumer.

but it is only a small snapshot of what is going on.

Paula Deen

Their space was very small ... so it was a real challenge.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

Sandy Wilson

It's a small town remembering what it's like to be an American.

James May

It's a small step in the right direction.

They're not that big -- they have small posts just like we do.

It's a little smaller but it utilizes space much better.

Glenn Turner

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.

George Meredith

Speech is the small change of silence.

Hillary Clinton

Let's stand up for taxpayers, let's stand up for consumers, and let's stand up for small businesses, which create most of the jobs in America.

You're crowding a smaller and smaller stock into a smaller and smaller habitat.

Richard Hamming

When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you.

Joan Miro

Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time that painting has been done with a very narrow range of colors. The frescoes of the tenth century are painted like this. For me, they are magnificent things.

Tom Vilsack

Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy.

Tom Perrotta

I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.

Mother Teresa

Do great in the small things.

Mother Teresa

There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love

John Naisbitt

Small business, right down to the individual can beat big, bureaucratic companies ten times out of ten.

James Fenton

An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That's the beauty of it. It's not taxing to the listener's intelligence because if you haven't heard it the first time round, it'll come around again.

Lynn Shelton

I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their lives for a period of time.

This is no small potatoes. It won't be pretty.

Tom Rath

The things that change people's lives are usually an accumulation of small acts.

Robert A. Heinlein

Small change can often be found under seat cushions.