In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The miners are looking for the diamonds, not the dirt. They are willing to lift all the dirt in order to find the jewels. In ...
The mandarins of culture—what do they do to teach the common folk to read? It's no good writing down lists of books for farmers and compiling five-foot shelves; you've got to go out and visit the people yourself—take the books to them, talk to th...
Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe i...
Gil: These people don't have any antibiotics! Adriana: What are you talking about? Gil: Adriana, if you stay here though, and this becomes your present then pretty soon you'll start imagining another time was really your... You know, was really the g...
The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us
I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.
Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.
From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.
Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me, it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.
I would say that Roger Federer is pretty amazing. And Manny Pacquiao - he's such a tiny, little lightweight guy, but the way he fights makes people so excited.
I don't know very many people in the art world, only socialise with the few I like, and have little time to gnaw my nails with anxiety about any criticism I hear about.
All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.
You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
She could not trust people who wore all their "weird" on the outside. It left so little within to discover.
Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.
That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.
Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!
Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers
We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
