Small Spaces Quotes - Page 2

• Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.

  John McGahern

  Book, Space, Ideas

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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• There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.

  Bede Griffiths

  Beautiful, Heart, Discovery

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• I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness.

  David Bromstad

  Dark, Thinking, Color

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• The quantity of meaning compressed into small space by algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to carry on by their aid.

  Charles Babbage

  Space, Aids, Circumstances

  Charles Babbage (1826). “On the Influence of Signs in Mathematical Reasoning”, p.6

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• Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small stove, squeezing past each other on the narrow stairs, shaving in front of the same small bathroom mirror, constantly jogging, jostling, bumping against each other’s bodies by mistake or on purpose, sensually, aggressively, awkwardly, impatiently, in rage or in love – think what deep though invisible tracks they must leave, everywhere, behind them!

  Christopher Isherwood

  Mistake, Past, Thinking

  Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, James P. White (1989). “Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader”, Vintage

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• Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space, that you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

  Sylvia Plath

  Space, Discipline, Feels

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• Not since the British raided Cologne had so many bombs landed in such a small space in such a short time.

  Rod Serling

  Space, Bombs, British

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• We seem to spend a lot of our time in very small spaces spouting a lot of dialogue very quickly.

  David Tennant

  Space, Dialogue, Our Time

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• I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

  Nate Berkus

  Growing Up, Motivation, Passion

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• I played Futebol de Salão for many years and it helped me to become the player I am today. There you don't have time to think, you are always tightly marked and you develop a sense for performing in small spaces.

  Robinho

  Player, Thinking, Space

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• If you need to strap a camera to you or get in a small space, then it makes sense to use digital.I do think it is possible to use a digital camera artistically, but it can only be good if you are using film technique. Film has grain, and digital has pixels, and there is not that much of a difference, but digital does not replace the need to create a scene and light it properly and spend time considering the shot.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Thinking, Light, Differences

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I hate elevators. I'm claustrophobic so for me to be in an elevator or small spaces is probably the worst thing on earth.

  Aino Jawo

  Hate, Space, Earth

  ""Interview: Icona Pop's Aino Jawo on their New Album, 'This Is... Icona Pop'". "Coup De Main" Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• I was afraid of small spaces and I was afraid of the tree outside my window, and I had all these phobias. I think many kids have those phobias, but I probably had more than most.

  Steven Spielberg

  Kids, Thinking, Space

  "Hollywood's master storyteller". www.cnn.com.

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• Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in that small space above the dirt where the wind will not reach. We honor anniversaries of deaths by cleaning graves and sitting next to them before fires, sharing food with those who will not eat again. We raise children and tell them other things about who they can be and what they are worth: to us, everything. We love each other fiercely, while we live and after we die. We survive; we are savages.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Children, Fire, Wind

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• We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder.

  Nicolas Steno

  Ignorance, Views, Numbers

  "Minds Behind the Brain. A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries". Book by S. Finger, 2000.

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• A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. The island of Manhattan is without any doubt the greatest human concentrate on earth, the poem whose magic is comprehensible to millions of permanent residents but whose full meaning will always remain elusive.

  E. B. White

  Islands, Race, Cities

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• At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Space, Wealth, Cocoa

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• The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Self, Space, Despair

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.22, Granta Books

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• The point of the feminist movement wasnt simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated workplace, but to create a world where the contribution of both sexes was equally valued and no ones worth was judged on their take-home salary.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Sex, Home, Space

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• Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Fighting, Space, Plot

  Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.193, Penguin

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• I'm not a fancy person. I love small spaces. I like tiny cars. I don't buy things, aside from music and books. I don't get loads of attention and maybe it's because I'm kind of boring. I don't think I'm boring, but I have different interests. I don't go out much, not because I'm hiding but because I'm not a big drinker. I go out and have a good time, I go to concerts and stuff.

  Ellen Page

  Book, Thinking, Space

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• I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get a whole world into such a small space.

  Debra Dean

  Writing, Space, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The biggest considerations I had were practical: how do you move such a large number of actors around a small space? So, for example, if I have to have the mother bring a pot of tea from the kitchen to the living room and serve it to the others, how do I, on a practical level, get everyone into the frame? Any decisions I made about the camera angles or movement came out of necessity, versus any sort of stylistic choice.

  Hirokazu Koreeda

  Mother, Moving, Numbers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love Is, Space, Glasses

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.16, Vintage

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• A lot of the moves I make originate from futsal. It's played in a very small space, and the ball control is different in futsal. And to this day my ball control is pretty similar to a futsal player's control.

  Ronaldinho

  Moving, Player, Space

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