Tiny Quotes - Page 28

• There are tiny choices that everyone can make that profoundly affect our collective water use. Like not having the tap on while brushing your teeth, not starting your shower ten minutes in advance, not doing laundry until you have a full load. In this particular issue, education really is power.

  Kristen Bell

  Issues, Water, Choices

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• I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do think that everything that lives is holy and somehow integrated; and on cloudy days I suspect that these extraordinary phenomena, and the hundreds of tiny, modest versions no one hears about, are an ocean, an earth, a Creator, something shaking us by the collar, demanding our attention, our fear, our vigilance, our respect, our help.

  Tim Winton

  Believe, Ocean, Thinking

  Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.36, Penguin UK

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• Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes -love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself -and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others -should we call it joy?

  Andrea Dworkin

  Love, Running, Art

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• My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, Feelings, Suffering

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• Despite all I have seen and experiences, I still get the same thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb toward it.

  Edmund Hillary

  Snow, Mountain, Thrill

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• Asked to make a list of the men who have most dominated the thinking of the modern world, many educated people would name Freud, Einstein, Marx and Darwin. Of these four, only Darwin was not Jewish. In a world where Jews are only a tiny percentage of the population, what is the secret of the disproportionate importance the Jews have had in the history of Western culture?

  Ernest Van den Haag

  Men, Thinking, Names

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• Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger - to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man.

  William Wordsworth

  Baby, Fall, Sleep

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.491

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• It's hard for me to describe the joy I felt after I stood up and rode wave in for the first time after the attack. I was incredibly thankful and happy inside. The tiny bit of doubt that would sometimes tell me you'll never surf again was gone in one wave.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Inspirational, Joy, Doubt

  Bethany Hamilton (2004). “Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought A Prairie Home Companion would be an interesting thing to do for a summer or so. Public radio was just seven years old in 1974. It was a tiny organization in which a lot of things got started simply because there was all this time to fill. If you wanted to do an hour on Lithuanian folk dancing, you probably could have done it.

  Garrison Keillor

  Summer, Home, Years

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• Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth and a pen in pocket or hand.

  Albert Einstein

  Hair, Hands, Long

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.77, Princeton University Press

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• Playing music well is difficult, yet the world has an abundance of fine performers. Explaining a little about music is easier, yet few do it well. Those who can do both supremely form a tiny club, whose honorary chairman is the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.

  Justin Davidson

  Playing Music, World, Clubs

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• Las Vegas was such a teeny, tiny place.

  Eydie Gorme

  Vegas, Las Vegas

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• We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let's face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere.

  Cate Blanchett

  Country, Government, People

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• Reducing your life down to three pairs of jeans, two skirts, a couple of shirts, and a few pairs of shoes was so nice for me. I really loved living in this tiny room where I didnt have space for anything. It sounds really lame, but it made me feel a lot more free, because I just didnt have as many choices.

  Emma Watson

  Couple, Nice, Jeans

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• Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life.

  Estelle Getty

  Important, Difficult, Physicality

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city.

  Betty White

  Cities, Snow, Inspire

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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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• A lot of it comes from tiny things, like not eating barbecue sauce with my pizza at two in the morning. I think it's all a manifestation of being happy and wanting to treat myself well. The truth is, I'm not getting up an hour earlier and walking on a treadmill. I have the greatest workout partner in the world. And you don't need a gym membership for that kind of workout.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Workout, Morning, Thinking

  "A Mighty Heart: Jason Sudeikis Dishes on Love". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. July 17, 2013.

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• I don’t mind if the character is a small character, but I would just like her to have a journey in the film. Sometimes the characters are just there as a prop to further the man’s story. The great directors I’ve talked to, I’ve said listen, I don’t mind playing a woman that is a tiny part, but how does the story affect her? What can I play in the end that’s different from the beginning? Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense, because it’s just like being a prop.

  Jessica Chastain

  Character, Journey, Men

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• Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'.

  Russell Brand

  Spiritual, Pain, Self

  Russell Brand (2010). “Articles of Faith”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.

  Miranda July

  Sound, Humans

  "The Man on the Stairs". Fence, Spring/Summer 2004.

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• The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny.

  Karl Pilkington

  Pyramids, Design, Bedroom

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• YES we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots

  Daniel Dennett

  Soul, Robots, Made

  Daniel C. Dennett (2004). “Freedom Evolves”, p.13, Penguin

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• If I were really really ridiculously wealthy, I wouldn’t buy a mansion, just tiny apartments in every city I love.

  Mara Wilson

  Cities, Actresses, Wealthy

  Twitter post from Aug 22, 2013

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• I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

  Branford Marsalis

  Thinking, Doors, Needs

  "Branford Marsalis: It's All About The Band". Interview with Russ Musto, www.allaboutjazz.com. January 12, 2005.

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