Littles Quotes - Page 276

If you mess up the tiniest little thing in the Beethoven concerto, or the phrasing isn't just exactly perfectly executed, Beethoven brings out the worst in the best violinist. You almost never hear a satisfying performance, because it doesn't play itself.

There are days that I get neurotic with the instrument [violin]. Every little adjustment will change the balance for good or for bad. It's kind of a miracle, the way the whole thing works as an acoustical whole, so perfectly balanced that any little thing will - which also means the weather, the humidity.

We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!

I tend to read things that are a little more on the nourishing side. But if I don't enjoy something, I'll put it down.

You can't click through a book, you can't hyperlink and jump out of it. It requires a little bit more of a regular engagement.

Movies and life become a little more symmetrical when you start asking for and looking for connections.

Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.

You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.

A big marker in my life was realizing you could record sound: I liked to make little recordings and then go back and listen to them. It becomes something outside of you then and you can listen to it objectively.

I think those little laundry detergent capsules are an amazing thing to have.

I try to talk as little as possible, unless I see something that I might disagree with.

I've got a little cat, and I'm very fond of that.

In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.

Music belongs to everybody. Having a little clique of the industry tell us what our culture is... I don't think that's healthy. And the Internet is helping us get away from that.

That's sort of what I wanted to make fun of a little bit with Don Jon. And I think oftentimes, if you're going to talk about a sort of substantial topic like this, the best way to do it is with a sense of humor.

I've been around doing a little of this and a little of that.

I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Playing defense, it seems to me, can only forestall an inevitable slide into tyranny.

Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.

No generation can do another generation's work for it. What we human beings can do at most is to mark out the pathway a little clearer for the generations to come after, and put legible signboards at the points where the greatest dangers have threatened us, in the hope that our posterity will read, understand, and be warned.

Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle.

Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.

Look what a little vain dust we are!

Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives.