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The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

Small Quotes

It has always been very difficult for writers to survive commercially in India because the market was so small. But that’s not true at all any more. It’s one of the world’s fastest growing and most vibrant markets for books, especially in English.

– Aravind Adiga

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

– Agnes Smedley

With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.

– Bjork

I keep only a small edit in my wardrobe because I think it is important to keep things moving through, and I like to find out which pieces from my collections work and which could be reworked and improved.

– Alice Temperley

It’s not that Good doesn’t triumph over Evil, it’s that the point spread is too small.

– Bob Thaves

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs’ interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security… or every loan they made?

– Aubrey McClendon

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

– Carl Sagan

Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian.

– Anthony Foxx

I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it’s where oil was pretty much discovered in North America.

– Chris Hadfield

I’m tiny. I’m small.

– Claire Denis

What struck me first on reading the Ten Hoeve-Jacobson paper was how small the consequences of the radiation release from the Fukushima reactor accident are projected to be compared to the devastation wrought by the giant earthquake and tsunami.

– Burton Richter

From shoes that are a size too small to a dress that doesn’t fit quite right, there are incredible pieces in most wardrobes that have never been worn.

– Brad Goreski

Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people – and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country.

– Aravind Adiga

Most bands don’t work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

– Bruce Springsteen

I was never the star of my team, not even in my small town.

– Ben Zobrist

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year – a small government proposal if ever there was one.

– Bill Ayers

I’m motivated by very small successes.

– Beth Brooke

You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

– Bryan Batt

If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I’m for it.

– Alexi Giannoulias

I never get obsessed with ratings, partly because the Channel series ‘Utopia,’ which I did, had small ratings but a passionate following, which allowed a second series.

– Alistair Petrie

People don’t know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

– Ann Richards

Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small – but we aren’t sizes. We are souls. There are no better people or worse people – there are only God-made souls.

– Ann Voskamp

Do I have a small movie in me? Yeah, probably, when I’m 60. But I’m not Hal Ashby, I’m not Roman Polanski. I’m true to myself. Whether you like it or not.

– Brett Ratner

Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function.

– Craig Venter

Saxon, if you are unfamiliar, is a British heavy-metal band that has been around since the mid-’70s and was in no small part the inspiration for Spinal Tap.

– Adam Schlesinger

I’m a Santa Ana boy from 1940 to all my life. And Santa Ana was different only in the fact that Orange County was just small. Hell, I used to ride my motorcycle through the orange groves, and now it’s tracts of homes.

– Bill Medley

I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human speak for our technicians. But our company was sold, and the atmosphere and the culture really changed, so I quit without having anything else lined up.

– Allison Tolman

A small town is a place where there’s no place to go where you shouldn’t.

– Burt Bacharach

Apart from a small minority, teenage boys fall into three distinct categories: macho, metro, or just plain muddled.

– Alexandra Adornetto

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.

– Chris Van Allsburg

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