Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA’s budget is too small for the job. – Paul Davies
When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses. – Robert Kiyosaki
What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small. – Richard Mentor Johnson
I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn’t have a zip code. It’s too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn’t farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. – Rick Perry
Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town. – Roger Bannister
I’ll have to self-publish it because unless you’re on the ‘New York Times’ bestseller lists, anthologies don’t sell all that well. However, low sales to a big publisher are a major success to a small one! – P. N. Elrod
There’s a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves. – Philipp Meyer
You move to New York. You want to be the biggest, most fully realized version of yourself you can be. A lot of that is fueled by this desire to not feel small, and to make a name for myself and establish myself in a way that wasn’t expected of me. – Robin Lord Taylor
At Rackspace, I’m building a media house which will celebrate small teams who are having world-wide impacts through their building or use of new technology. – Robert Scoble
There have been discussions of doing ‘The Demon Cycle’ on both large and small screen scale, and while there is no project currently in development, I think the series has both the big imagery and complex character development to have legs either as a TV series or film franchise. – Peter V. Brett
What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen. – Robert D. Kaplan
The kids are so much fun. I’m always taking a look over at what they’re doing because it reminds me of when I was so small before. – Oxana Chusovitina
The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level. – Ric Keller
The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance. – Otto Heinrich Warburg
It took me a long time to find out that I was born to be an actor. It was the last thing on my list, although my list was very small. I didn’t know what to do. But kids weren’t supposed to know what to do back then; we were all cute and we’d find out what we’d do later in life. – Rutger Hauer
When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya. – Patrick Wang
You know Texas is – even more now that Enron has bit the dust – it’s held up on the back of small businesses. – Rachel Griffiths
There’s no way I could ring up a company that was lending me a red-carpet dress and say, ‘Do you have it in a 10?’ Because all the press samples are an 8 – I would say a ‘small 8.’ – Romola Garai
The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun. – Richard Dawkins
In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy. – Ram Charan
Every Sri Lankan, and almost every visitor to Sri Lanka, carries a longing for the place in some small form – hiraeth, the Welsh call it – wherever they go and whatever their background. It binds them however much the war and politics might try to divide them. – Romesh Gunesekera
I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs. – Robert B. Laughlin
I live in a small apartment. There’s only so much Batman memorabilia a guy can hang on to in New York City. – Robin Lord Taylor
You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can’t put a round peg in a square hole. – Ray Liotta
I vaguely remember we had an air-raid shelter in our yard. We lived in a semi-detached house with a small garden in the suburbs of Salford, a couple of miles from the docks. – Robert Powell
I don’t think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It’s just more tasteful. – Rachel Zoe
Whenever I organize or participate in public protest I get really worried that it will just suck, be really small, embarrassing, and the media will laugh at me. Oftentimes, it is really small and most of the time the media laughs at us. – Rachel Corrie
Growing up in the Midwest, I was very close to my maternal grandmother, who, as a young widow running a small business in 1920s Kansas City, had known firsthand the old Pendergast regime and its classic combine of politics and organized crime. – Roger Morris