By and large, small companies don’t want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions. – Sam Graves
The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated. – William E. Simon
I’ll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself. – Tim Vine
As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables in use, when times get tight, they put off new purchases. What seem like small cutbacks to the end buyer translate into big swings for the producer. – Virginia Postrel
I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don’t think it’s so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don’t want to do that. – Ziyi Zhang
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German. – W. G. Sebald
Internet radio stations like KCRW do take you everywhere, yet that’s just one of a hundred small things you have to do to succeed. It used to be, if you just got on the cover of ‘Rolling Stone’ and a spotlight on ‘The Tonight Show,’ that was enough. – Teddy Thompson
Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It’s like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you. – Saffron Burrows
Photography has become a small world with so many jealous people. You do a story and then a lot of people try to do the same thing. – Sebastiao Salgado
I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia, every time I went into the subway I was absolutely astounded because you see people from all over the world who actually live here – who aren’t just here as tourists. – Tony Kushner
I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina. – Skeet Ulrich
The advertising market in China is big and is still growing at a considerable pace. While online video is emerging as a mainstream advertising solution, it still represents a relatively small portion of advertising budget in China. – Victor Koo
I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue to operate. – Sue Kelly
The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists. – Vivienne Westwood
In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers’ markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied. – Thomas Frank
Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. – Winston Churchill
What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn’t matter. – Sarah Monette
Most troublesome is the legalization of ‘crowd funding,’ the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet. – Steven Rattner
The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor. – Stephen Gardiner
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. – Stanley Kubrick
We get angry about the small things sometimes, I feel, so that we feel like we’re doing something, so that we don’t have to tackle the big things. And it’s fine; let people do that. But I’m not gonna now change because of that. You know? Like, the worst thing that happens to me is you don’t like me. And then what? – Trevor Noah
Auburn is a very small, quiet college town, a different kind of place geographically and culturally. – Tim Hudson
There’s so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it’s a pretty small percentage of the population. – Tyler Cowen
The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America’s small businesses. – Sam Graves
I don’t think one gets to choose the kind of comedy he/she does. I may not talk about Rahul Gandhi’s take on an ordinance, but I will talk about things as simple as a ‘chappal’ or a ‘sherwani.’ My comedy is about small things, and that is how it connects. – Vir Das