67 quotes found
“You should not think on a small scale”
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
“It doesn't sound that cool to say it, but I still get nervous for any show. But it's different degrees - playing a small basement of a club versus playing a festival like Firefly or Bonnaroo. The f...”
“In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein...”
“Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!”
“A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.”
“Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.”
“We still carry this old caveman-imprint idea that we're small, nature's big, and it's everything we can manage to hang on and survive. When big geophysical events happen - a huge earthquake, tsunam...”
“It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.”
“I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.'”
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
“To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.”
“I loved medieval architecture when I was very small I don't know why.”
“I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.”
“Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.”
“The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.”
“I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin - 'from the garden.' I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but t...”
“Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.”
“If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.”
“A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.”
