When Edna O’Brien’s first novel, ‘The Country Girls,’ was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose. – Alan Cheuse
Government and other scientists have identified hundreds of chemicals that are linked to diseases in small concentrations and that are unregulated in drinking water or policed at limits that still pose serious risks. – Charles Duhigg
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art. – Adolf Loos
I have not seen ‘Legally Blonde.’ I must be in the small, ever-dwindling minority on that one. – Alfred Enoch
Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be. – Anna Freud
I now found that the spider cannot fix its thread to anything without imprinting the hind part of its body on the place, by which pressure it emits an incredible number of excessively small threads diverging in every direction from whence we may conclude that as soon as the threads are exposed to the air, they lose their viscosity or gluey quality. – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they’d accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily. – Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Proof of the black hole is a tremendous amount of mass inside a very small volume. There’s 4 million times the mass of our sun within a region that’s comparable to the size of our solar system. – Andrea M. Ghez
I used to be a health-care investor a long time ago in the public markets. One thing I learned that we tried to apply here is that investing in small molecules, trying to invest in the next treatment, there’s an element of gambling to that. – Bill Maris
Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn’t been within the realm of possibility. – Bill Dixon
When I finish as the host of ‘Jeopardy!’ I’m going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling. – Alex Trebek
I think the world of comedy is a relatively small community, and especially for women in comedy, there just aren’t that many people involved. – Ari Graynor
Small issues are really just large ones that haven’t been accorded the requisite attention. – Alain de Botton
And Israel, being a tiny, small country, of course has interest to strengthen – we have interest to strengthen our relations with other countries, mostly countries that were hostile for many, many years. – Ariel Sharon
Cyndi Lauper is really good at talking to you about normal things. It’s strange to be in the presence of a big celebrity like that. You want to make these connections and say things related to being a fan. It’s not as interesting for them. She’s amazing at making small talk without it seeming small. – Barrett Foa
Stay faithful in things large and taking on the world, but stay faithful in those things small – because remember it’s the small things, the size of a mustard seed, that ultimately moves mountains. – Cory Booker
Voiceover work, I really enjoy. I don’t get to do too much of it, but I’ve been doing more lately, and I like it because you get to do a bunch of options, one after the other, and you can go as big as you want or as small as you want, and you don’t think about it sometimes. – Alexandra Daddario
The small businessman is smart; he realizes there’s no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich. – Adam Osborne
The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the ‘Mythbusters’ heart and there’s no small reason that they’ve embraced us. That’s our people. That’s the way we like to think. – Adam Savage
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same. – Albert Einstein
In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don’t want change are able to block change. – Alex Steffen
Wouldn’t it be great if cars came equipped with screens like that thing they have in Times Square that spells out the news? You could punch out your own instant messages: ‘Will the small red car with the ugly driver please stay a little further behind?’ – Albert Brooks
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. – Ambrose Bierce
I write traditional drama, and the small enclosed communities work well with this form. I enjoy exploring secrets. On small islands, privacy is important, and there are secrets that everyone can guess but nobody talks about. – Ann Cleeves
China is going to be one of Avon’s largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves. – Andrea Jung
Teenage girls read in packs. It’s true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma. – Ally Carter
All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that’s what ultimately works the best for me. – Barry Levinson