Littles Quotes - Page 148

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success.

Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.

There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it.

As a kid, a little kid I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.

It sometimes takes a while for executives to figure out that the reporters they think of as little bugs to be squashed or spun can be more powerful than they are.

Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.

The song can be a little bit more of the mystery and leave the whole thing open ended. But there's something really gratifying about saying exactly what you mean.

Little Walter I would've liked to have played with

If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.

When I was little, I didn't like being left on my own in the dark.

As a screenwriter I'm often writing in genres where there have been thousands of movies; whereas when I direct movies they tend to be in between genres. They tend to have a little bit of a genre to them, but they're really about the people, and they're people we haven't met before.

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.

I am also, I must confess, a little sceptical of the theory that we have a right, if we could, to pass on our capital burden to future generations. I remarked last year in this context that our predecessors had not passed any significant part of their burden on to us.

One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time.

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.

High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.