I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that ma...
I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.
As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.
The New Economy is one where small business has the advantage. What is it about small business that is unique? Today’s small businesses are lean, smart, complex – eternally entrepreneurial – not just small versions of big business. These entrep...
It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down an...
There’s no point in believing in things that exist.
Because I'm small, I've been called things from 'Happy Feet' to 'Little Face.'
Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock.
I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.
If you live in a small space, you should do the things that make it feel luxurious.
When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.
One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.
When the big things in our life start changing, we rely more heavily on small certainties to make us feel secure.
Never does one so constantly see so many different things as when peering from a small window.
Thinking about such things soothed the creature as it dug at the base of a tall oak tree, deep into the ground, covering itself with dirt and leaves and moss; hiding, healing, waiting.
Maybe you and I can't do great things We may not change the world in one day But we still can change some things today... In our small way...
There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central American country. Dunking a basketball. Being a famous rock star. Or walking on Mars. But one thing I have been, and will ...
I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends ...
How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.
The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at tha...
