Everybody’s life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant. – Peter Jackson
No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things. – Channing Pollock
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. – E. M. Forster
I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. – Pete Seeger
When I became a novice monk, I lived in a temple where the atmosphere was quite like in a family. The abbot is like a father and other monks are like your big brothers, your small, younger brothers. It is a kind of family. – Nhat Hanh
If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That’s why Twitter is performing so well on mobile. – Fred Wilson
It’s a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. People think about trying to build the next Facebook as trying to start where Facebook is today, as a major global presence. – Eric Ries
I don’t even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don’t want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls. – Drew Barrymore
I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We’re fringe, totally. We’re fringe. – Gary Johnson
Yes, I’ve been in an igloo. They’re surprisingly cozy and warm – small, though, you can’t really stand up in some. – Gary Paulsen
In each scene, the writer sets up a situation, which brings a conflict as well as either a small victory or a loss at the close of that particular scene. – Darin Strauss
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up – developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base. – Gavin Newsom
‘The Jungle Book.’ It’s one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran. – Marjane Satrapi
It’s common sense to be for middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts on small businesses, to be for not allowing Medicare to be turned into voucher care. – Mark Takano
There’s a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it’s actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they’re still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations. – Ernest Istook
My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small… my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don’t want people to see how thin they are. – Goldie Hawn
It’s not a question of size, of whether it’s a small or a big thing, but of what it has the power to incarnate. – Charlotte Casiraghi
I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work. – Mira Nair
I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact that it was big. – Maya Beiser
It means that, in fact, it’s – whether fascist is the right word I don’t know – more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite. – Peter Singer
I am concerned if 25 percent of Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim. I mean, it’s obviously a lack of knowledge. But also, it’s for the Muslims as well, you know, because a small numbers of Muslims have really painted a very negative image of Islam. – Najib Razak
In some movies you feel like you’re a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it’s a more concentrated and quiet experience. – Minnie Driver
I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting. – Miranda Richardson
A vaccine introduces a small amount or a tempered version of the virus into the body – just enough to that the body is able to recognize it and deal with it when it encounters it again in the future. – Eula Biss
In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing. – Nick Clooney
I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations. – Eliezer Yudkowsky
When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I’m so grateful that actually became a reality – and it became a reality in a small town. – Dak Prescott