Tiny Quotes - Page 6

• Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.

  Eliot Porter

  Photography, Stories, Photographer

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• Phew am exhausted. Just read about something called "the offside rule". Too much for my tiny brain. Must be damaged from nail polish fumes.

  Kelly Cates

  Football, Brain, Nails

  Kelly Cates @KellyCates, twitter.com. January 23, 2011.

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• An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits... they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our clothing, our furs ... He who in studying all the different species of insects that are injurious to us, would seek means of preventing them from harming us, would seek to cause them to perish, proposes for his goal important tasks indeed.

  Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur

  Mean, Science, Animal

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• Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.

  Georges Bernanos

  Library, Firsts, Facts

  Georges Bernanos (1974). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, Doubleday Books

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• The Magi are filled with awe by what they see; heaven on earth and earth in heaven; man in God and God in man; they see enclosed in a tiny body the One whom the entire world cannot contain.

  Peter Chrysologus

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• ‎Interdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Even tiny insects survive by mutual cooperation based on innate recognition of their interconnectedness. It is because our own human existence is so dependent on the help of others that our need for love lies at the very foundation of our existence. Therefore we need a genuine sense of responsibility and a sincere concern for the welfare of others.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Relationship, Wise

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Then with Lucy [Hale], her little thing that I kind of learned from her is her country music because she’s obsessed with country and at the beginning, I wasn’t a huge fan of it, but I was listening to some songs that she plays in the hair and makeup room and she’s also so funny, too. She does these character impersonations and they’re just so funny. Made up characters of course, but she can switch into someone else so fast. I’m always laughing at Lucy and she’s like a little Polly Pocket, you know? The tiny one.

  Shay Mitchell

  Country, Song, Character

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• To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole.

  Donna Tartt

  Hands, Focus, Looks

  Donna Tartt (2013). “The Goldfinch”, p.457, Hachette UK

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• The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the stage and shown to the audience. This life is rich and revealing for the audience as well as for the actor himself.

  Michael Chekhov

  Imagination, Acting, Actors

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• The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure. One can have so-called spiritual moments without belief in the spirit.

  Alain de Botton

  God, Spiritual, Religious

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• Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Strong, Humility, Eye

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.160, Univ of California Press

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