Littles Quotes - Page 116

Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.

Humans are a young species, and my little life abides in a very big place, where epochs glide by as swiftly as the mongoose. And strangely enough, when we put our human concerns into their proper, small place, we can turn our attention completely to the small things. To a cricket hidden in a crack of lava. To each other.

If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.

So many cowboys....so little rope.

The single most useful ingredient on the planet. In a pinch you can scramble them and call it dinner. But it only takes five eggs, a little milk and a handful of cheese to make a fat, sassy cheese soufflé.

Sell Not Yourself At Little Price, Being So Precious In God's Eyes.

Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle.

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.

I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.

I had this little handheld transistor radio that I used to sleep next to.

How could anyone survive even a single day, if he didn't feel as if he was, in some little great way, needed?

It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.

I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.

When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad.

I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees. I don't know if you remember the Bee Gees. My mom took me. I was little. But my mom was a big disco fan, and - my mom took me to the Bee Gees. Looking back now, it's pretty embarrassing if your first concert was with your mom.

A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?

I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.

So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea.

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.