Littles Quotes - Page 275

Because of being married, I've met people and experienced all these little things that have nurtured my life - not so much changed it, just nurtured it in a way that's astounding.

little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime.

I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.

In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.

A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of the price: that is the sort of transaction to which the all-devouring activity of modern trade has reduced bookselling, which used to be a matter for dawdling, idling, and chatty, friendly browsing.

Vaclav Havel had this great sense of humor. And you kind of felt that he was making a little bit fun of everything at the same time.

We were always expected to see Quebec's side of things, but there was damned little reciprocity.

Wherever I am on location, I can usually, even in the weirdest little places, find a recording studio.

I used to tour a little bit with Jim Carrey and help him out on his first Showtime special.

It would be so irresponsible not to speak up. I don't know what I would do in my home and in my life if I didn't rant a little bit and as thoughtfully as I can with some humor.

I can be a little bit stubborn.

China has, all of a sudden, found a way of putting the best of the best to work to build an economy that is growing at 10% to 12% per year, and now India is following. And those changes and how quickly they've come out of this mess, how little debt they have, is really important.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

You can't do BIG things when you think "little".

Oh, I am such a little piggy. Everyone is always mad at me because I eat so much. They're like, 'How are you so skinny?' I eat more than my husband!

[Donald Trump] thinks in tiny little bursts - the way he tweets.

This landing is gonna get pretty interesting. Define "interesting". "Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die"? [on speakerphone]: This is the captain: we have a little problem with our entry sequence so we may experience some slight turbulence, then explode.

Every time you work on a project, it's a little vacation from the project you're working on the other 23 hours. That's the thing - it replenishes you to do something else.

I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

My family fight, that's the way it is. We're not common as muck or anything but we do have a little fight now and then.

Reduce. Do as little as possible to get what you have to get done.

Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter.

I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did.

Looking back on myself as a little kid, I see seeds of entrepreneurship.