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Small Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
- Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
- The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a…
- As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though…
- The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal…
- Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be…
- A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all…
More Small Quotes
- Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. — William Shakespeare
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back.… — Drew Barrymore
- When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to… — James Belushi
- Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration… — C.S. Lewis
- We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other… — Samuel Johnson