Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. – Wilson Mizner
The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it’s a small country – you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know. – Yuna
As a child, l was fascinated by gemstones in the way that small children are fascinated by dinosaurs or trains. Stones seem very physical and look like sweets. You can look at them microscopically and imagine things about them. – Tobias Hill
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. – Zhuangzi
One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options. – Thomas Menino
When the fishbowl gets too small, it’s time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean. – Travie McCoy
My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population. – Satyajit Ray
Me and my cousin, most of the time we worked on radios and fixed them. I guess we started because I was curious to understand how radios work. When I was little, I used to think there were small people inside. Most of the time, I was just trying to see the people who are speaking in the radio. – William Kamkwamba
The Khoton people are a small minority group of Mongolians renowned for living a traditional nomad life in the remote slopes and valleys of the Kharkhiraa-Turgen mountain range. – Tim Cope
I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn’t happen. – Taylor Swift
Something happened to the State of Israel. What was morally obvious in 1948 is not so obvious anymore. When the State of Israel was established, it was, for the parents and grandparents of these young Jews, a miracle. It was David and Goliath. We were the just cause. It was about values. We were small, but we were the good guys in the world! – Tzipi Livni
The general direction seems to be becoming fairly clear to me, but every new piece is a small adventure. – Steven Stucky
I’m interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It’s a small proportion of what I do, but it’s always what people seem to focus on. – Sam Taylor-Johnson
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy… and I keep it in a jar on my desk. – Stephen King
Unfortunately, we are living in an era where plenty of songs with vulgar, objectionable lyrics are also becoming popular. It’s a disturbing trend, and I feel really sad when I see small kids dancing to such numbers in television shows. In my career so far, I have refused any song whose lyrics I haven’t been comfortable with. – Shreya Ghoshal
The West has been calling for years for the forces of moderate Islam to stand up to the very small percentage but very large number of radical Muslims all around the world. When countries – the U.A.E. or Egypt or Jordan – do that, we need to highlight it, we need to celebrate it, and we need to continue to encourage it. – Tom Cotton
I understood when I was quite small that there were two special things about the Jews. That we’d endured for over 3,000 years despite everything that had been thrown at us, and that we had an extraordinarily dramatic story to tell. – Simon Schama
If one looks at the map of the world, it’s difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country. – Vladimir Putin
There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform. – Xenophon
I’ve made a number of independent films that didn’t receive theatrical distribution, that a lot of people haven’t heard of, and as a result, I’ve conditioned myself to go into small independent films with the expectation that they will not, and therefore, I have to find my reward elsewhere. – William Mapother
Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It’s a different society. – Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
We had a small farm growing up. It was my grandfather’s farm, and we didn’t torture the animals, and we didn’t feed them stuff we wouldn’t eat. – Sandra Lerner
When you put more money in the pockets of working families, they spend it on groceries, gas, school supplies, and other goods and services. And that helps businesses grow and create jobs. So many forward-looking employers, large and small, understand this. – Thomas Perez
The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies. – Wolfgang Schauble
I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing. I went to school, I hung out with my friends, I fought with my younger sisters. It was all very normal. – Stella Young
Well, I’ve got two small children and this is a very important time for me to be around them. – Treat Williams
We must get government out of the way and help foster an environment where small businesses are free to grow and create jobs. – Sam Graves
I’m not going to say I’m a big girl. I’m a very small person, but I’m a healthy weight. That might be a little weird for Hollywood. – Zooey Deschanel