A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
I feel small when I stand beside the ocean, next to all those fat people in bathing suits.
Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.
It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details.
It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men.
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.
I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.
The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.
Montevideo is a beautiful city with a very European style. It's a small city, but with a lot of cultural movement and a lot of personality. At the same time, it's a very chill city.
I always say it takes as much preparation and thought to do a small part as a leading part. In some ways, leads are easier because you have the luxury of time to discover the character.
When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.
Jake La Motta: I got these small hands. I got a little girl's hands.
Fabrizio: I can see the Statue of Liberty already!... Very small, of course.
The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.
Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.
In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.
