Quotes of: Small-things Keyword

One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.

Rush

I could enjoy the simple life with a small living quarters, a scratched album of Johnny Cash and a Box of Twinkies

Return to Stantasyland

To be happy a woman had to think hard, during long silent hours, about how to make each small step forward.

Rêves-femmes-Une-enfance-harem

Let’s call my mood melancholy; let’s call it remembrance. Or maybe let’s call it longing. Yes, let’s call it longing instead.

Small Town Demons

I hung a picture of him above my bed and learned by hand the internal workings of the female combustion engine.

Small Town Demons

It's ironic, since they're supposed to be immortal, but vampires are kind of like small businesses: half of them go down within their first year

Shadows & Dreams

Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.

Small Favor

Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.

Small Gods

... a man needs no camel to ride to hell, yea, nor horse, nor mule; a man may ride into hell on his tongue...

Small Gods

What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.

Small Gods

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

Small Gods

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.

Skeleton Key

Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?

May We Be Forgiven

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

Marilyn

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.

Neuromancer

...even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my misery.

Netherland

The joy of small that makes life large.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.

Lost Everything

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

Little Men

In any case, a little danger is a small price to pay for ridding a place of tourists.

In Search of King Solomon's Mines

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered