Small Quotes
Big ideas about being underestimated.
Several of these small quotes come from people describing being dismissed early — a company written off as minor before it grew, a hometown that never gets credited. If scale itself interests you more, the Big collection makes the opposite case.
My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.
I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.
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I grew up in a small town, in a small community, and I would not have had access to great plays when I was a kid were it not for the films of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and 'Cat...
A 'township' in the U.S. is a small area. In South Africa it's a place designated for non-white people during the apartheid.
American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.
Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.
My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house.
I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.
I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders.
It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.
Any movie that gets made and ends up in a position where people are coming to talk about it, it's not a small thing.
Anyone who's taken a lot of creative-writing classes, or taught creative writing, has learned to dread a certain kind of manuscript. It's long, for one thing. It has irritatingly small type; it's grammatically meticulous when it comes to everything but...
As the son of a small business owner, I know how regulatory overreach can stifle our economy and cost Americans jobs.
It's incredible in our sport how small the differences are, and we are all aware of that. We're all on a high level and skiing well, and at the end, it's just hundredths that count. Maybe it's just one finger...
When I was a carpenter, I built sets for small storefront Chicago companies. Like, I built sets for friends of mine at The House Theater.
The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them.
