Littles Quotes - Page 304

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.

[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics.

I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.

It's rough to be mugged all the time, to have your place broken into all the time. You can buy a building for very little, but then the building has a fire and you have no money, so you have to fix it all yourself.

Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair. "No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.

I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.

Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest

Physically, I was always moving. I was always a little jittery.

The Cuban public is hugely cinephile. It's a shame that most of the movie theaters are so deteriorated. The sense of spectacle has been lost a little, but even so, people continue to go.

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

We want to push mankind's boundaries out a little further.

Gatekeeper was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I havent written many like that.

And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.

So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.

Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.

How little has situation to do with happiness.

We are not ourselves anymore, we've lost a little something.

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.