What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it’s so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I’ve received a spam text. – P. J. O’Rourke
Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small. – David Ives
I’m calling myself ‘The Doodler,’ and with the simple addition of a small burglar’s mask, I achieve utter anonymity. – Chris Riddell
Baltimore was like a small town when I got there – the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew and respected each other. Everyone would cross paths at one point at Lenny Moore’s Sportsman’s Lounge, trading stories and having some fun. – Earl Monroe
They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity. – Emily Dickinson
If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures? – Martin Gardner
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different. – Dick Cavett
The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles. – Georg Simmel
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. – Douglas Adams
For small businesses to thrive, they require an environment that is conducive for growth. – Nydia Velazquez
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead. – Cherrie Moraga
The thing I’ve come to learn is that what’s great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you’re making them. – Guy Pearce
I really like Gwyneth Paltrow a lot, as far as her career, because I think she’s done a lot of small movies but she’s also done great, big movies, and she’s a really great actress. – Emma Roberts
We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get – seeds get carried. Sometimes, if they’re very small seeds, they get scattered off trucks. Pollen travels. – Nina Fedoroff
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. – Charles Dudley Warner
I just feel such a connection to the little kids in Naples. I remember being on the street wanting a small piece of candy. – Giuliana Rancic
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. – Neil Armstrong
If you’re an Afghan village leader in a small town down around Kandahar somewhere, and you know that the footprint is getting smaller for your security, and the Taliban saying don’t forget, I’m going to be back real soon, who is your loyalty going to go through? – Mike Rogers
I remember how much – when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of ‘Peter Pan.’ I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy. – Maurice Sendak
Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform. – Patrick Henry
As with the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, the origins of Shearith Israel trace back to a small group of religious freedom-seekers and a treacherous ocean passage to the New World. – Meir Soloveichik
I don’t have a drawer full of ideas. I kind of look around and take notes and wonder what could actually be a whole movie. And each time, I think I’m going to do it more commercial this time; I’m going to get a big budget and make it. But I always come up with some small idea. – Nicole Holofcener
When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively small dimensions. The experimenter may vary them in many ways, and, if it were nothing else, they afford a pleasing sight. – Nikola Tesla
When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you’re constantly seeing these images. – Mia Wasikowska
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. – Norman Mailer
Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose. – Nicholas Negroponte