Our music may sound big emotionally, but that’s more to do with the playing, the level of musicianship and the full-on energy. Often, the lyrics are often quite small and focused. – Win Butler
My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment. – Tyra Banks
The kinds of films that I’m used to doing are independent films. They’re very small character-driven pieces, and there isn’t as much spectacle involved. – Sarah Gadon
The whole world is global. With the Internet, it’s like we’re all living in a small village. We’re starting more and more to realize there is no difference, we can work together, we can put aside our differences and work on our similarities and be successful in that way. – Shohreh Aghdashloo
I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school. – Victor Cruz
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. – Steven Weinberg
Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars. – Steven Rattner
I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people. – Verne Troyer
Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts. – Tim O’Reilly
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. – Thomas Jefferson
Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it’s a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race. – Susan Vreeland
If I’m doing an event, if it’s a charity event, where it’s a walk-around event, where I gotta put a thousand small plates out in the course of a four-hour event, I gotta make sure I can do something that I know I can produce, that’s going to be consistent and good all night long. – Tom Colicchio
My new mission is, and I’ve said this to the White House, I want the Buy America to be real. I want the Buy America to be by small businesses, African American businesses, Latino and Asian, but in particular our African American businesses who heretofore couldn’t even find the front door of government contracts. – Sheila Jackson Lee
To be a part of something like ‘Tron,’ good God! It doesn’t matter how big or small your role is, you’re like, ‘Yeah, I was in ‘Tron.’ – Serinda Swan
With acting, I’ve always gotten by in life acting in situations. I’m a small person. I didn’t have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations. – T’Keyah Crystal Keymah
I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies. – Sam Mendes
The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you’ll only achieve small things. – T. Harv Eker
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth. – Xun Kuang
I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran’s heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice. – Ted Deutch
The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one. – Samuel Richardson
Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish. – Yotam Ottolenghi
You talk to the farmers, the ranchers, our small community bankers, and boy, one of the No. 1 issues is the regulations coming out of Washington. – Steve Daines
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you’ll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city. – Sylvia Earle
When I read ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ I was so struck by the universality of small towns. – Tom Brokaw