Any institution becomes a community – whether it’s a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people. – Alice Hoffman
As a person who came from a small town and had dreams of becoming an actor, I know what it’s like to have no support system for what it is that you want to do. A lot of people think you don’t have a chance. – Anika Noni Rose
Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it’s in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance. – Benny Goodman
I think the biggest problem in clinical trials is that they are underpowered. And that fundamentally, the studies are just too small. – Anne Wojcicki
I’ve learned it’s always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing. – Art Linkletter
I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again. – Annie Baker
My captors were definitely aware that what they were doing was wrong. It came out in small ways – occasionally through a show of guilt or compassion. One of the boys bought me a gift. Another used to sneak me acetaminophen tablets. – Amanda Lindhout
All the suits I buy have to be tailored, no matter what. But it’s not just because of my height; it’s because I’ve been skating for so long. My waist is very small, but my legs are just huge. Most really nice suit makers are Italian, and usually they make suit pants for Italian men. I’m like, ‘Those Italians must have pretty skinny legs.’ – Apolo Ohno
The UN’s unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee
I grew up 150-200 miles from any city. You simply didn’t have much connection with the outside world. So my dreams were always to get out. It’s a familiar kind of thing, I think, for anybody in a small town. – Bobbie Ann Mason
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable. – Abraham Robinson
I do quite a lot of art, with a small ‘a’. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange. – Amanda Harlech
Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other – the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog. – Amity Gaige
In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest. – Bryan Robson
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. – Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies. – Brion James
When we get government off the backs of our job creators, small businesses have a better chance of thriving. And when small businesses thrive, so does our economy. – Ann Wagner
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. – Blaise Pascal
The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition. – Aaron Ciechanover
In no small part I think all of us kind of look in the mirror and feel good or not feel good about the person we seen in the mirror in no small part because of the jobs we have. – Antonio Villaraigosa
I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, an abnormal decrease of sugar in the blood. Eventually I learned to eat five small meals a day. Now if I’m making a movie and get hungry, I call time out to eat some crackers. – Carol Alt
I have found that so many directors and producers in the room say nothing, and this can be deadly. It’s very difficult to audition for comedy in the vacuum of a small room, but it’s the only way most do it. – Allison Jones
The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number. – Abu Bakar Bashir
We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don’t, in small ways. That’s what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale. – Christopher Nolan
Chicago ’68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I’ve talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock. – Bill Ayers
I was living in a small town in Indiana working as a telemarketer and a vacuum salesman. I was really bad: the vacuums seemed to always be falling apart. Every time I did a demonstration, I’d say, ‘This is the material the astronauts used on Apollo 13.’ And no sooner had that come out of my mouth, something would malfunction. – Adam Driver
