Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early ’50s. Later, my stepdad managed gas stations in a small town near Portland. – Katherine Dunn
The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there’s no better security than that. – James Douglas
My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. That’s my aspiration. – Jeremy Miller
I must have been born with a strong attraction toward, and possibly even an aptitude for, doing things on a small scale. – John Gurdon
You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor. – Lawrence G. Lovasik
To me, it’s about good work, a good story, and tastefully done. There’s so many stigmas – oh, you’re on the small screen or you do films or you do reality. It’s about the project and not the medium on which it’s delivered. It’s the story you tell, period. – Keshia Knight Pulliam
I know in the past Republicans have agreed to minimum-wage increases that there’s built-in protections for small and midsize businesses. – Marco Rubio
Supporting iconic, growth-oriented industries, combined with tax policies that encourage small business growth and investment, represents a potent combination and is the basis of our entire administration. – Larry Hogan
We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river. – Knute Nelson
I’m a small dog guy. I don’t want to be pattin’ with the big Rottweiler or Great Dane. I like those little guys that jump on your lap and don’t knock you over when they do. – Joe Garagiola
If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he’d probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people. – Moby
Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above – which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade – as small potatoes. – Joe Conason
I just like playing music and doing it with people that I care about. It doesn’t really matter where. It’s like, ‘Why don’t we just play piano in a small bar? Why do we want to make an arena full of people happy?’ – Josh Klinghoffer
Whether you’re a programming prodigy or the office manager holding it all together, technology empowers small groups of passionate people with an astonishing degree of leverage to make the world a better place. – Justin Rosenstein
I’ve never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form. – Kurt Cobain
What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that’s a very small aspect of my life. – Kangana Ranaut
In the five months I wrote the final draft of ‘The Association of Small Bombs,’ I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful. – Karan Mahajan
There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary art. But then there is a much larger world that doesn’t realise how influential art is on things that they actually look at. – Marc Jacobs
The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie. – Joe Dante
We share our planet quite naturally with a permanent aeroplankton; a buoyant ecology too soft to hear, too small to see, but heavy with mood and meaning. Imagine being aware of all these airy inclusions – and you can begin to understand how it might feel to be able to smell really well. – Lyall Watson
We can only create good jobs if we make smarter investments in infrastructure and do more to support small businesses, not stiff them. – Michael Bloomberg
To be physically fit is just a small aspect. You can be a beautiful physical specimen, but you’re empty as far as what it takes to be a person, and that shows up real fast. – Lee Haney
I like the world, but I feel very, very Italian. I love the small parts of my country: Tuscany, Capri in the winter. I don’t like big towns. – Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
We all have to start somewhere, and doing something is better than nothing at all. Start small so you don’t get discouraged and give up. Remember it is all about consistency. – Khloe Kardashian
The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large and small cities across the US. – Jerry A. Webman
The beauty of where I’m from – this small little town called Wallburg, North Carolina – I didn’t have a TV; I was out playing ball with my dad, shooting clay pigeons. – Jill Wagner