There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage. – William Jennings Bryan
If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the ‘moment of inertia’ – the resistance to angular motion – drops dramatically. – Vijay Kumar
I grew up as normally as any other kid. Between that small TV part I did at five and when I turned professional actor at 18, I stayed away from the limelight, so I was just like any typical kid who went to school. – Timothy Hutton
I like to do things that are publicly embarrassing, to feel the embarrassment touch me and sink into me and then be gone. I like getting on elevators and singing too loudly in that small space. The feeling you feel is almost like a vapor. The discomfort and the wishing that it would end that comes around you. – Stephen Colbert
Right now there should be a moratorium on the cutting down of old growth in this country. That is a small thing to ask at this point. There is only four percent of old growth left. Ninety-six percent of it has been cut down. – Woody Harrelson
Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it’s not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York. – Serge Schmemann
I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him. – W. G. Sebald
Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I’m not captain. – Yuvraj Singh
The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago. – Timothy Noah
Farmers the world over, in dealing with costs, returns and risks, are calculating economic agents. Within their small, individual, allocative domain, they are fine-tuning entrepreneurs, tuning so subtly that many experts fail to recognize how efficient they are. – Theodore Schultz
I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house. – Sydney Brenner
Fight scenes are hard, no matter what you do. You’re trying to make it look like you’re hurting someone without hurting them. It doesn’t matter how big and strong the guy is that you’re fighting or how small and feeble someone is that you’re fighting. You don’t want to hurt them. You’re working with them. – Zach McGowan
American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies. – Tony Judt
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. – William Dean Howells
Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies. – Trieste Kelly Dunn
I would say that all the singles that I have put out are collectively just a small piece of the artist that Thomas Rhett wants to be. – Thomas Rhett
I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant ‘small’ could be. – Willard Wigan
Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding. – Unknown
