Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.
When you get big special effects pictures, sci-fi and things, there's little or no comedy. Or it's a domestic comedy and there's not one special effect. But very rarely do these things fuse and come out right.
The networks are different so they have a different approach. Obviously, with The Shield - that was on FX so they had a little bit more leeway as far as the dialogue was concerned and even the content and what they showed the viewers, which is a great thing. But we will push it to the limit as far as FOX will let us go; that's for damn sure.
I guess it's a personal preference. Me, personally, I like to be able to tell the stories that I want to tell and do the things that I want to do. It takes a little bit more work, but that's what the production side is.
Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity.
General Napoleon says that ability is of little account without opportunity. The opposite is also correct: Opportunity is of little account without ability.
Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!
In the very darkness of a stupid society, even a little candle deserves a great honour!
The big fire has no right to despise the little spark!
Big storms create big captains and they destroy the little ones!
Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!
Observe everything silently, like a little bird! This invites the angels of wisdom!
Do not give little man big power and do not give big man little power!
Where there is little thinking, there is big shaping of the people!
Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!
There is a great beauty in little things.
We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!
Be it a house, be it a car or be it a little motorbike, there is always a place for the family!
There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear.
Sometimes life puts too big weights on little shoulders and the reply of little shoulders to this injustice is remarkable: To carry the burden with courage and dignity!
A little danger adds spice to life.
[I had a]...Second bowl of oatmeal. It was a little bit gloppy.
We never really cared about all the things that other people cared about, you know? Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. I've always been kind of suspicious of the world, anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to live in my own little world.
If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn't you come to me? quoted by Susannah Simon
Aaron, in order to die you have to live a little first.
