Littles Quotes - Page 122

Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told - because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second best are misunderstood : myths, which are metaphoric attempts to point to the way toward the first. And the third best have to do with history, science, biography, and so on. The only kind of talking that can be understood is this last kind.

It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.

According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking.

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

I don't know that there was a moment, like one specific moment where I was like "Ugh. Now what do I do?" I was just always like, "I'm just in here and if I have to fight with myself or ask for help or just be lost for a little while, but I'm just going to keep looking." Because music was all I had.

Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.

It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.

A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.

Apply yourself everyday to just becoming a little bit better.

There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.

Calvaryites are sometimes a little too heavily oriented to the written Word.

We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.

Oscar and I have something in common. Oscar first came to Hollywood scene in 1928. So did I. We're both a little weather-beaten, but we're still here and plan to be around for a whole lot longer.

A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.

A little bait catches a large fish.

If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.

I know well that happiness is in little things.

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.