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The Great Gatsby
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Small Quotes

Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.

– Steven Amsterdam

I feel I should defer to the writers and the directors because they’re the ones who have the complete vision. They see things through from the beginning to the end. I’m responsible for one small part, so my scope is much more limited than theirs.

– Shoshannah Stern

Here’s my favorite bonehead concept from the 1990s in the Pentagon: the theory of anti-access, area-denial asymmetrical strategies. Why do we call it that? Because it’s got all those A’s lined up I guess. This is gobbledygook for ‘If the United States fights somebody, we’re going to be huge. They’re going to be small.’

– Thomas P.M. Barnett

There are over 20 federal agencies that provide some, or all, of the steps in the export process. This can paint a very confusing and intimidating picture for small companies who often don’t have designated export officials or trade representatives on staff to navigate the process for their businesses.

– Sam Graves

Although 95 percent of the world’s market for products exists outside the U.S., many small firms do not have the resources and personnel to take advantage of these opportunities.

– Sam Graves

Knuckleball pitching is a very small fraternity.

– Tim Wakefield

As someone who has owned a small business in the past, I understand how difficult it can be to get a loan.

– Tony Cardenas

The Sex Pistols was a part of my life. Just a small part.

– Steve Jones

I mostly wrote ‘Thursday’s Child’ to explore the idea of a wild child – a creature who lived much as humans used to live, when our needs were simple and our worlds were small.

– Sonya Hartnett

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

– Walter Kohn

Denmark can be very small, provincial, and mediocre.

– Thomas Vinterberg

Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

– Victor Davis Hanson

I have four relatively small children, and around fourth grade, they start doing big projects on Native Americas: everything is Native Americans in elementary school. Do you know how many Native American dresses I’ve sewn, on and on; it’s a full yearlong study. And then never again. As journalists, we never even cover Native Americans.

– Soledad O’Brien

I didn’t grow up in a small New England town like the one in ‘The Sundial.’ I was raised in an apartment building in Queens, not in a sprawling, slightly sinister mansion like the one where the Halloran family resides.

– Victor LaValle

Along with some of my college friends, I would often bunk classes and drive to Murthal, which is about 50 km from New Delhi, just to have some piping hot parathas. There was this small roadside dhaba where they would serve absolutely delicious aloo parathas with dollops of butter.

– Sushant Singh Rajput

My grandfather started a school for the underprivileged in Chandigarh, and that is why we moved from Himachal to Chandigarh. It was a small school, where even I would teach while in school.

– Yami Gautam

Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It’s a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.

– Sam Weller

I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked.

– Sol LeWitt

In Slack, you create channels to discuss different topics. For a small group of people, those channels are relatively easy to manage and navigate.

– Stewart Butterfield

Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland taught me to write character-driven stories.

– Virginia Henley

I’m very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.

– Susannah McCorkle

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

– Vincent Van Gogh

There wasn’t a lot of live music that you could hear where I came from, which was a small town in southeast Missouri.

– Terry Teachout

My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

– Sam Abell

In one month, the Small Business Administration does $1 billion of loans and guarantees for businesses; many of those are women-owned businesses.

– Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I live in a very small town and now that I’ve closed down my studio, I’m working at home.

– Sergio Aragones

When I do stand-up for a long time, I’ll get burned out, then I’ll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I’d like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I’ve written. That’s what I’m trying to do now, just write smaller movies.

– Zach Galifianakis

Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called ‘exotic’ selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

– Yotam Ottolenghi

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

– Saffron Burrows

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