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Most Famous Small Quotes of All Time!

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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.

Quotes by Daniel Barenboim

In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.

Quotes by Daniel Boone

I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked in two studios.

Quotes by Dan Scanlon

We are excited to see how PayPal's global payment platform can help small businesses in Cuba thrive and grow by making it easier to connect to international markets.

Quotes by Dan Schulman

The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.

Quotes by Dan Shechtman

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.

Quotes by Dan Simmons

In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked.

Quotes by Dan Lipinski

Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy and employ almost half of the working population. Yet because of their size, they rarely have access to the same information security resources as large firms.

Quotes by Dan Lipinski

I just think that everything is symbolic, and who you are determines everything that you do, small moves and big moves.

Quotes by Dan Gilbert

South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.

Quotes by Damon Galgut

Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.

Quotes by Dale T. Mortensen

I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.

Quotes by Dalton McGuinty

Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

Quotes by D. W. Griffith

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

Quotes by Cyril Connolly

We are trying to find drugs, small molecules, that people could take to make them disease-resistant, more youthful and healthy. Eventually we will find them.

Quotes by Cynthia Kenyon

I go for my completely routine mammogram and then I get a call from my gynecologist. And she says, 'Well, I have some - it's not such great news, but here it is, but it's very small and we're just...

Quotes by Cynthia Nixon

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

Quotes by Cynthia Ozick

Everything looks cute when it's small.

Quotes by Cynthia Rowley

I had a job right out of college writing for a small newspaper called 'The Unterrified Democrat.' Ghastly, ghastly job.

Quotes by Cullen Bunn

I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.

Quotes by Craig Sager

Frequently Asked Questions

Do these quotes only talk about small in terms of size?
Not at all — "small" here ranges from company size to towns to personal ambition. One speaker even once thought a company was "a small company ripping off our copyrights," before it turned out to be a much bigger deal than expected. For more on how scale plays out in the working world, see Business quotes.
What do these quotes say about small towns?
One is blunt about it: "Small towns are the worst for getting recognised." It's a candid take on how a smaller community can limit visibility or opportunity, at least in this speaker's experience.
Is being small always seen negatively in these quotes?
No — one turns it into something aspirational: "I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles." Here, "small" describes an exclusive, admirable group rather than a limitation. If you'd rather explore the opposite end of scale, Big quotes covers bigger ambitions too.
How does this collection compare small and great?
One quote draws a direct contrast: "Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous." It suggests smallness here is linked to pettiness, while greatness is linked to generosity of spirit. Explore that idea further in Great quotes.
Is there a common thread tying these small quotes together?
Mostly that "small" is relative here — it can mean underestimated, limiting, exclusive, or even petty depending on context, and these four quotes touch on nearly every version of that. For more everyday words examined from every angle, check out Always quotes.

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