Tiny Quotes - Page 30

• A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

  Chaim Potok

  Men, Quality, May

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• It's funny because looking back at my first contest, I was 15 and surfing the Haleiwa contest wearing this tiny bikini. I remember not even thinking twice about wearing it - I just thought it was normal.

  Alana Blanchard

  Thinking, Surfing, Firsts

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• A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to MIT and worked on bacteria because that's where people knew the most about these switches, how to control the genetics.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Beautiful, People, Tree

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• There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.

  Stanley Bing

  Baby, Moguls, Pounds

  "Landmark Study Reveals That CEOs Are Remarkably Similar to Babies" by Stanley Bing, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2011.

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• If professional wrestling did not exist, could you come up with this idea? Could you envision the popularity of huge men in tiny bathing suits, pretending to fight?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Wrestling, Fighting, Men

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• The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Shoes, Glasses

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• If I tell you my character has grey hair, you will not see her. If I tell you she has a tiny scar at the upper left corner of her lip from which protrudes one grey whisker—you will make up the rest of her face with absolute clarity. If I tell you my character is waiting in a car, you won’t be ‘caught,’ but if I tell you he pushes his fingers down in the crack of the car seat where the ancient leather has pulled away from the seat frame, and pulls up a small coin purse with a faded note in it—you will be mine.

  Pat Schneider

  Character, Hair, Car

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.79, Oxford University Press, USA

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• That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of speciesists. Tie the label Homo sapiens even to a tiny piece of insensible embryonic tissue, and its life suddenly leaps to infinite, incomputable value.... Self-styled pro-lifers, and others that indulge in footling debates about exactly when in its development a foetus becomes human, exhibit the same discontinuous mentality. Human, to the discontinuous mind, is an absolutist concept. There can be no half measures. And from this flows much evil.

  Richard Dawkins

  Self, Indulge In, Ties

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• We consume everything like potato chips. In this environment, I suspect the cartoonist's connection with readers is likely to be superficial and fleeting, unless he taps into some fervent special interest niche. And that audience, almost by definition, will be tiny.

  Bill Watterson

  Special, Connections, Fleeting

  Source: library.osu.edu

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• If you try to find your source, you are not going to find it in a tiny little particle that began with your parents commingling.

  Wayne Dyer

  Parent, Trying, Littles

  "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

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• Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these tiny little details into a cohesive thing.

  Tom Hanks

  People, Vision, Trying

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexibleorder gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hole them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stooping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Music, Hands, Giving

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• When a house is tottering to its fall,
  The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part,
  One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads,
  And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.

  Ovid

  Lying, Fall, House

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• Pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring,
  pulling off the elopement wedding ring,
  and holding them, clicking them
  in thumb and forefinger,
  the indent of twenty-five years,
  like a tiny rip leaving its mark.

  Anne Sexton

  Rip, Divorce, Years

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.

  Russell Baker

  Family, Children, Confused

  Russell Baker, William Knowlton Zinsser (1998). “Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Skins, Dozen

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”, p.30, Ballantine Books

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• Watch the sun until it comes into your body and stays as a tiny sun. It will keep your face shining even in the coldest of winter.

  Yoko Ono

  Winter, Shining, Watches

  Twitter post from Oct 08, 2015

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• The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.

  Brendan Gill

  Gun, Events, Pages

  Brendan Gill (1975). “Here at the New Yorker”

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• Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  War, Blood, History

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• Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call "history" by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World historyonly comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions.

  Stefan Zweig

  Mean, History, Done

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• Two of the actors, Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom, have been caught between two landslides and are now trapped in a tiny town in the middle of the South Island. They have been taken in by a kindly woman who has offered them food and a bed. They were last reported to be cooking spaghetti and cracking into a bottle of red wine.

  Peter Jackson

  Taken, Wine, Two

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• Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Beautiful, New York, Cities

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• I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Joy, Growth

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• As a result of the assault on Christianity, the Christian faith has been isolated more and more into a tiny private sector of life and removed from the whole public spectrum of America.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, America

  D. James Kennedy (1997). “The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail: The Attack on Christianity and What You Need to Know to Combat It”, Nelson Reference & Electronic Publishing

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• In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. The living room rug was frequently littered with hundreds of metal “girders” and tiny nuts and bolts surrounding half-finished structures. An understanding mother allowed me to keep the projects going for days on end.

  Steven Chu

  Summer, Mother, Moving

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