Smaller Quotes

819 quotes by 695 authors

Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement. — Saul Bellow
If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be… — Alexis de Tocqueville
We need a smaller and elite military, as [Donald]Rumsfeld said - and also a smaller and elite foreign policy. — Ron Paul
On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be… — Frank Gehry
Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is… — Carlos Ghosn
Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale… — Stone Gossard
After shows my face feels dirty with makeup and sweat, especially in the smaller venues, so it feels good to get back to the bus… — Ellie Goulding
Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time… — Ashley Greene
The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms,… — Brian Greene
I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues. — David Guetta
Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger. — Edwin Louis Cole
To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of… — Phil Collins
You can't compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful. — Bill Cosby
My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat. — Beth Ditto
I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to… — Beth Ditto
I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on. — Rita Dove
Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore. — James Dyson
And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe… — Clint Eastwood
I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their… — Brian Eno
I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production… — Neil Patrick Harris

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