Littles Quotes - Page 77

I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.

I have a beautiful little Smith & Wesson, 9 millimeter, and it goes with me virtually everywhere.

A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

The UK downgrade will come as little surprise to many. It does not appear to be occurring because the UK is cutting its deficit too far and too fast.

In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right.

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.

I like guitar sounds to be a little somber.

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

I recommend that you try a little mental floss.

Barry Bonds was like Joe Namath or Muhammad Ali. He could make a statement and go out and back it up. Not a lot of guys can do that. In fact, managers usually cringe when guys make statements about what they're going to do. In Barry's case, I liked it. I think he did it on purpose to motivate himself. In a lot of ways, it's easy for Barry. I think he needs a little controversy around him.

All you gotta do honey is kinda stand in one spot, wiggle around just a little bit.

Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?

There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive living.

We expect too much of new #‎ buildings , and too little of ourselves.

To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.

I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.

Little Walter was the best harmonica player I ever heard in my life.

It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

Harry found the [tea]... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest.