I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers. – Max Beckmann
As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth. – Dita Von Teese
I just think it’s shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance. – Pat Robertson
During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children. – Eavan Boland
And it’s difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC. – Fred Thompson
Although I completed two years of internship in various small hospitals, I decided against continuing my medical training. I was much more fascinated by the unsolved problems of medicine than by practicing it. – Gunter Blobel
I grew up in a really small town: LaGrange, Georgia. There weren’t a lot of creative outlets there, so I did local castings. – Elijah Kelley
Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash. – Dan Ariely
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. – David Friedman
I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe. – Diego Della Valle
Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I’m small but I’m also big. I’m big because I’m connected to the universe, and the universe is connected to me. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
It should surprise no one that I’m out arguing for small government, reduced spending and getting our financial house in order, along with reasonable regulations and no more. – Mike Pompeo
Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it’s never easy, because once you’ve mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest. – Gabrielle Giffords
I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop. – Eckhard Pfeiffer
A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don’t mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it’s a big book, there has to be more than one undertow. – Marguerite Young
Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness – self-consciousness about one’s education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options. – E. L. Konigsburg
The whole reason I did a bodybuilding show was to see how far I could push my own discipline. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. When I made the switch to acting, I was able to break that down into small, measurable goals like I did with bodybuilding. – Matt McGorry
We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business. – George Pataki
If you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there’s a huge difference between watching something on a small screen with a mediocre sound system and watching it on a giant screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric. – George Lucas
I will forever be a Bond. It’s a small group of men who’ve made this role. Someone said, More men have walked on the moon than have played James Bond.’ – Pierce Brosnan
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets. – Douglas Leone
I met Jack Nicholson when I was about 10 at a party of my uncle’s, and it wasn’t so much that I knew his films because I was small, but he wore sunglasses inside at night and I thought that must mean he was very important and was suitably star struck by his charismatic presence. – Emilia Fox
I’m a bit of a pick-pocket on-set. If something is small enough to go in my pocket, and it will be neat memorabilia, it’s gone. – Evangeline Lilly
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small. – David Rockefeller
I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can’t really move from it: it’s on buses, in stores, it’s everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies. – Gary Oldman
When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals – runs on the bank, so to speak – that would pull back the curtain and reveal a little man blowing smoke? One way would be to attract a core of investors who could be counted on to never withdraw more than a small percentage of principal each year. – Mitchell Zuckoff