As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?
I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.
There are more stars than there are people. Billions, Alan had said, and millions of them might have planets just as good as ours. Ever since I can remember, I’ve felt too big. But now I felt small. Too small. Too small to count. Every star is mass...
I like throwing snowballs at small children.
Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.
Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.
I can't abide small talk.
I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.
In America, small business is a big deal.
The Tea Party claims to want small government.
Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.
Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Of course, DeMille never did anything on a small scale.
Don't like small talk, love rainy days.
If you play small you stay small.
A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which his mother puts into his palm.
When you take a knife away from a child, give him a piece of wood instead.
Big chickens don't peck at small seeds.
Even a small star shines in the darkness.
Even a small star shines in the dark.
