Littles Quotes · Page 19

. . . . [P]ersons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles. No doubt your excessive affection for me makes…

— Vincent de Paul

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake…

— Benjamin Franklin

I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces,…

— Janet Evanovich

Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless…

— Gil Kane

[The movies] glamorize game day a little bit too much. It's such a focus. They miss a lot of the nuts and…

— Vince Kehres

To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the…

— Piet Mondrian

Of course, when we got home, we found that Dagda had peed on my down comforter. He had also eaten part of…

— Cate Tiernan

When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful.

— Barry Zito

The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our heads says, "I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.

— Gay Talese

Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I would urge the government to allocate more funds toward fighting cancer. My own situation, it made me think. It made me…

— Arnold Palmer

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday... I look back on my life as a…

— Grandma Moses

In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best…

— Dorothea Brande

My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way…

— Walt Whitman

When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of…

— Myrtle Reed

You just need a little perspective. Warmed chocolate can give you that.

— Giada De Laurentiis

Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is…

— Laozi

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the…

— Oliver North

Had I joined a straight rock band, I'm sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.

— Jimmy Chamberlin

I've always been more natural at doing hosting things: reading teleprompters, taking direction and ask-ing questions... I'm actually able to perform a…

— Vinny Guadagnino

She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?" "It's not very heroic," I said dismissively. "I was expecting…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that…

— Victoria Chang