Tiny Quotes - Page 28

• When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

  Alicia Keys

  Song, Honestly, Harder

  "6 Questions With Alicia Keys". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. October 20, 2005.

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• I find focusing clearly on the problem is the first step to seeing a solution. The problem is (a) the insane amount of time spent raising money from (b) a freakishly tiny proportion of America. Basically .05% are the "relevant funders" of campaigns, meaning candidates can't help but be overly sensitive to the views of that tiny fraction relative to the rest of us. IF that's the problem, THEN the solution is to spread the funders out: to increase the range of us who are the relevant funders of elections, through schemes like vouchers or coupons given to every voter.

  Lawrence Lessig

  America, Views, Insane

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• I didn't have an imaginary childhood friend, but I did one day imagine somehow tiny green men, and they were only tiny and green because my brother had a ton of toy soldier toys that came on a skateboard plank type of thing, and I just envisioned in this car driving to church with my mom, they were there.

  Jim Parsons

  Mom, Brother, Men

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost dreadful, so absorbing, so stirring down to the deeps. For the tiny creature is so old and wise and sweet, and so fascinating in his sturdy common sense and clear intelligence; and his affection for me is a wonderful, exquisite thing, the sweetest flower that has bloomed for me in all my life through.

  Celia Thaxter

  Wise, Sweet, Flower

  Celia Thaxter (1896). “Letters of Celia Thaxter”

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• I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

  Olive Schreiner

  Spring, Two, Snow

  Olive Schreiner (2003). “Dreams”, p.56, A&C Black

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• Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Islands, Tree, Java

  Giovanni Ruffini (1857). “Doctor Antonio: a tale of Italy”, p.295

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• You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're doin' everything I do. Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs. I take a drink and I look in and they're drinkin' too. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts.

  Laurie Anderson

  Crazy, Eye, Light

  "Laurie Anderson". Book by RoseLee Goldberg and Laurie Anderson, 2000.

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• my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic.

  Ana Castillo

  People, Ears, Waste

  Ana Castillo (1994). “Sapogonia: An Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter”, Anchor Books

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• I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a house and where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Cutting, House, Village

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• the American public has been delicately insulated from the actuality of our ongoing wars. While a tiny fraction of men and women fighting our wars are deploying again and again, civilian life remains pretty much isolated in cost-free complacency.

  Rachel Maddow

  War, Fighting, Men

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.207, Broadway Books

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• Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Moments, Blink, Galaxy

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Poems New and Collected”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If this code works, it was written by Paul DiLascia. If not, I don't know who wrote it ..I'll be laughing when I'm old and and all my programmer friends have gone alexic from staring at too many tiny pixels

  Paul Dilascia

  Laughing, Gone, Pixels

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• Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.

  Liane Moriarty

  Mother, Decision, Being A Mother

  Liane Moriarty (2013). “The Husband's Secret”, p.181, Penguin UK

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• So small, so blue, in grassy places / My flowers raise / Their tiny faces.

  Cicely Mary Barker

  Flower, Blue, Faces

  Cicely Mary Barker (1991). “A Treasury of Flower Fairies”, Warne

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• It's not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow, and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girl's identity to appearance.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Rainbow, Identity

  "The ghettoisation of pink: how it has cornered the little-girl market" by Peggy Orenstein, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• Being a mother is the perfect experience for any writer. You learn how to not waste time. The writing hours become incredibly precious and concentrated because the rest of your day is completely packed with diapers, edible liquid foods that look like pooh, tiny bathtubs, and unconditional love.

  Chiara Barzini

  Mother, Writing, Unconditional Love

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• I'm told I was acting in school plays when I was a tiny little boy at the age of three, so they must have seen something then. And even when I was practicing piano eight hours a day, I was still doing school plays.

  Christian McKay

  School, Boys, Eight

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• If the Congress is going to spend its whole time hauling up regulators and bureaucrats and looking like they're focusing on tiny, trivial things, instead of jobs and the economy, it could be a problem for them.

  Mara Liasson

  Jobs, Problem, Economy

  "Darrell Issa, Fred Upton Talk Oversight; Allen West, Mike Lee on Tea Party Conservatives". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. January 2, 2011.

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• I don't know if you get anything more adorable than a tiny pig eating an apple. And here's a fun fact. This is how you make apple-smoked bacon.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Fun, Pigs, Apples

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smallest of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Flower, Humble, Soul

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• You take a handful of rocks and put them in a jar. Then once a week, you take one tiny pebble out of the jar and throw it away. When the jar is empty, why, you'll just about be over your grief. ... Time alone will do if you're short on rocks.

  Sharyn McCrumb

  Grief, Rocks, Over You

  Sharyn McCrumb (2010). “Lovely in Her Bones”, p.136, Ballantine Books

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• once your eyes get opened to pacifism, you can't shut them again. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. You may bitterly regret the fact that you happen to be one of the tiny minority of the human race who have caught this angle of vision, but you can't help it.

  Muriel Lester

  Peace, Regret, Eye

  Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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• In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.

  James Hollis

  Animal, Ends, Frightened

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• Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive!

  Julie Bowen

  People, Alive, Opera

  "'Modern Family' Star Not Jealous of Vergara". Parade Magazine Interview, www.digitalspy.com. October 05, 2010.

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• I love discovering tiny streets.

  Michelle Dockery

  Discovering, Streets

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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