Tiny Quotes - Page 20

• The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.

  Tracy Kidder

  Ocean, Humility, Care

  Tracy Kidder (1982). “The soul of a new machine”, Avon Books

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• When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost.

  Paul Theroux

  Writing, Thinking, Childhood

  "Travel is nasty". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2003.

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• The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

  Derek Bok

  Country, Bhutan, Goal

  "Should Governments Make Happiness A Priority?". Interview with Alison St. John, www.kpbs.org. April 26, 2011.

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• The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean of emptiness.

  Paul Davies

  Ocean, Islands, Space

  Paul Davies (2008). “The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe”, p.4, Basic Books

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• I see the bomber pictures as an anti-war statement... which they aren't - at all. Pictures like that don't do anything to combat war. They only show one tiny aspect of the subject of war - maybe only my own childish feelings of fear and fascination with war and with weapons of that kind.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, War, Feelings

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• It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean beyond the grey continent of our ordinary days. There, sometimes, you meet your own heart like someone you've never known.

  Hans Børli

  Ocean, Heart, Islands

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• But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Smart, Stupid, Home

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• Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.

  Johnny Cash

  Heart, Sadness, Blue

  Song: Love Is The Way, Album: Heroes, 1986

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• Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

  Harry Browne

  Freedom, May, Want

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• I'm already a tiny person, so now I'm trying to go to the gym to add muscle. I need it!

  Alexa Vega

  Trying, Add, Needs

  "hairspray on broadway!". Interview with Sarah Wassner Flynn, www.seventeen.com. March 29, 2007.

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• The moment I'm perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.

  Toby Young

  Successful, Careers, Moments

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• I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.

  Hayley Atwell

  Thinking, Actresses, Really Stupid

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• With a Web and iPhone app, I try to find new and tiny ways to delight my customers. They may not notice, but it helps drive goodwill and makes your product remarkable.

  Marco Arment

  Iphone, Trying, Delight

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• I was kind of a bully, even though I'm tiny, 5' 2". As a child, I'd boss other kids around and dress my little brother up, just putting on shows, singing and dressing up.

  Nicole Beharie

  Brother, Children, Kids

  "Nicole Beharie ‘American Violet’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. April 13, 2009.

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• My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

  Bob Balaban

  Children, Dad, Grandmother

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2003.

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• Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it's turned back into a tiny little thing.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Sweaters, Machines, Done

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  "'Item 47' Stars Lizzy Caplan, Jesse Bradford Discuss Their 'Avengers' Short Film (Q&A)". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 23, 2012.

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• I'll tell you my routine - it's really exciting. I feed, I burp, I change diapers, I pump. And then I have a tiny window of time to myself.

  Marcia Cross

  Routine, Pumps, Diapers

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• It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.

  Daisy Donovan

  Mean, Work Out, Lazy

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• Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.

  Gavyn Davies

  Diversity, Would Be, Television

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• If you think about it now, it's kind of ridiculous. All these hot girls on Baywatch in tiny little red bathing suits running around saving lives.

  Carmen Electra

  Girl, Running, Thinking

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• From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended back to the confusing and violent finale of the Civil War, and she told stories of brutal murders in those days and refused to name some of the killers, as if dead men might still be prosecuted in the late 1950s.

  Charles Frazier

  Memories, War, Men

  "Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.

  Maggie Grace

  Actors, Done, Littles

  "Q&A: 'Lockout' first daughter Maggie Grace on being an unlikely action star" by Robert Desalvo, www.mtv.com. April 12, 2012.

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• The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.

  Greta Gerwig

  Thinking, Economy, Bigs

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2010.

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• In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too.

  Elvis Costello

  Mind, Pieces, Torn

  Song: Crimes Of Paris, Album: Blood And Chocolate, 1986

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