I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village to the chandeliers of Delhi. – Pranab Mukherjee
‘Red Knot’ is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience. – Olivia Thirlby
My label in Toronto was ‘Stand Pat’ and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along – big or small – that I thought should be made, I would make it. – Pat Gillick
The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of ‘The Nutcracker’ is domestic and small scale, so it’s great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance. – Robert Gottlieb
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. – Rudyard Kipling
With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it’s just so hard to get everything you want into that small form. – Rebecca Makkai
Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive. – Sarah Palin
I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science. – Philip Warren Anderson
The consequences of a misstep in a well, while large to the immediate people that live around that well, in the great scheme of things are pretty small, and even to the immediate people around the well, they could be mitigated. – Rex Tillerson
President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we’re both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves. – Richard M. Nixon
There is no better source of real-time news than Twitter. With the constant sharing of news and information, if you’re an active Twitter user, there’s nothing happening, big or small, that you won’t know right away. – Raymond Arroyo
The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That – the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That’s far more important than other factors. – Peter Orszag
I have to lead a very small life in terms of what people think ‘Hollywood’ is. It’s a full life for me, but I’m not jetting across the world. But life is good. – Octavia Spencer
To be honest I don’t think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size – intimate. – Robert Carlyle
As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world. – Ron Wyden
Making a film, every film, is a big gamble, large or small. The more that you do it, the more you’re aware of that. – Paul Greengrass
Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it. – Pia Zadora
I strictly want to beat every opponent I face, whether it’s for a title or for a small show. The only thing for me is winning my fights and being the best athlete I can be. – Paige VanZant
My father owned a small company, called Gundel Electronics, where he did community band radio and some repair stuff. – Rashid Johnson
Ninety percent of my roles, I’ve had to fight for. It’s only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles. – Ruth Negga
The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the country. – Richard Lugar
I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family. – Patrick Dempsey
Obamacare won’t just bankrupt the country. It may bankrupt small businesses. It may bankrupt individuals. – Rush Limbaugh
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you. – Robert Anton Wilson
The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text. – Patrick Nielsen Hayden
People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don’t value money that much. It’s an easy thing for me to let go. – Salman Khan
One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered. – Robert T. Bakker
Um… Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets. – Rachel Nichols