Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.
Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.
No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
I've made a way to allow myself to do big films, small films, dramas, comedies, action films, horror films, or whatever interests me, as a movie-goer. I like watching myself in movies. I want to choose movies that allow me to enjoy myself, the way that I want to entertain myself.
A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated.
We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.
I'll live a lush life in some small dive.
Small thoughts fear the future. Big thoughts are the future.
I want my world to get bigger and not end up in a small corner.
Chyerti—that’s us, demons and devils, small and big—are compulsive. We obsess. It’s our nature. We turn on a track, around and around; we march in step; we act out the same tales, over and over, the same sets of motions, while time piles up like yarn under a wheel. We like patterns. They’re comforting. Sometimes little things change—a car instead of a house, a girl not named Yelena. But it’s no different, not really. Not ever.
The ocean is an object of no small terror.
I retired from acting the same time they stopped hiring me. But following my own thing of making these small indie movies has been the happiest I've ever been.
You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly and then quickly expand.
The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a traditional Labour left-winger.
Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.
Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.
Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.
You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you seen a few policemen handle a crowd?
. . . you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.
Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.