Top 534 Smaller Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Smaller Quotes from famous people such as Jamie Bell, John Bel Edwards, M. S. Swaminathan, James Boswell, Victor Hugo, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I often find the smaller, independent films are much mo

I often find the smaller, independent films are much more rewarding than the bigger stuff, but you do the bigger stuff because it’s a business, and you’ve got to show your face a bit, get yourself around.
Jamie Bell
If we can make it easier to put smaller, local, minority-owned, and women-owned businesses to work, our communities and our state will benefit.
John Bel Edwards
The smaller the farm, the greater is the need for marketable surplus, so that the family will have cash income to meet their needs.
M. S. Swaminathan
A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
James Boswell
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
Victor Hugo
I think F1 have always had smaller teams and that’s been fighting it out and being there and like you say, its been a perfect place for young drivers who come into F1 to gain experience.
Marcus Ericsson
The best perk of my job is getting to take products home. I mean, my bathroom looks like Sephora; like a clean, smaller Sephora.
Eva Chen
I’d rather have a smaller following of really cool people who get it, who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith.
Martie Maguire
I’m big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you’re big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.
Brion James
Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we’re launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.
Mark Millar
In the wrestling world, you had WWE, WCW, and smaller promotions that were like the independents. I look at it as craft beer being the independent beer makers. It’s the indie scene.
Stone Cold Steve Austin
I just write notes all day on my phone, and when I write songs it becomes a patchwork of these smaller notes that I had, mixed with stuff in the moment.
Aesop Rock
The cool thing about the smaller gigs – it’s the intimacy. You really feel connected to the crowd.
Robert Trujillo
Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on their lives, then I guess in a smaller way, this is changing the world. So, that’s what I believe in. That’s why I’m into creating more and more interactions.
JR
In terms of smaller changes over time, I think good plays are like poems. Every syllable counts. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts.
Stephen Karam
Many of the smaller banks have had to get to the point where they now have more compliance people than they have lending offices. That’s crazy.
Wilbur Ross
‘The Satanic Verses’ was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
Salman Rushdie
Tournaments are won by aggressively going after smaller pots with a range of starting hands. The trick is learning how to do that without becoming reckless.
Daniel Negreanu
And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.
Clint Eastwood
We need a smaller, leaner Washington. It won’t happen if we raise taxes without any coinciding reform and serious slashing of spending.
David Harsanyi
I think early in my career, I didn’t choose films that were crappy films, necessarily, but I didn’t go out and campaign for smaller, better roles.
Rene Russo
I can just be one of those guys that used in the mix, playing 4 or 5 if we play smaller.
Markieff Morris
I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are certain things which I get to do which are untapped. The scenes give me the liberty to play and mould the character in accordance to the director’s mindset.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We’re making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.
Jim Doyle
As an assistant coach, the wins and losses don’t tally up on your record, so you don’t necessarily have that to fall back on, so you have to find smaller games within the bigger picture to play in order to get your victories.
J. B. Bickerstaff
Australia is a smaller country and the industry works differently over there. You get added to one radio station in Australia, and you pretty much get added across the board.
Jessica Origliasso
Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
Taylor Hicks
We need people with foresight who are willing to make films with smaller budgets and accept smaller profits.
Bill Duke
Fortunately for me, I discovered Ring of Honor. And I saw guys who were much smaller in stature but were putting on these amazing matches that I had never seen in WWE before. So I thought, at the very least, I’d love the chance to be able to wrestle in a company like that someday.
Adam Cole
The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.
Austin O’Malley
I’m just honoring my mother’s words. She always told me, ‘The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.’
Willard Wigan
At one time, smaller, and story-heavy films were not ap

At one time, smaller, and story-heavy films were not appreciated much but exposure has made the audience aware of what great story-telling is. This has also ensured that the right actors are cast for the right kind of roles.
Jaideep Ahlawat
I admire artists who really take risks and aren’t afraid to do smaller movies and obscure, abstract things. It would be really cool if my career neared that.
Britne Oldford
I made ‘Enemy’ to prep myself for ‘Prisoners.’ I had the need to direct something smaller in English before going to Hollywood. That’s the way I sold it to Warner because they asked me if I was berserk to make a movie right before.
Denis Villeneuve
Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it’s been quite effective imagining the world’s problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that’s where real major change begins.
Stone Gossard
We already know that social security is more affordable in Scotland than it is in the rest of the U.K. – spending on social protection takes up a smaller share of our economic output and our tax revenues than is the case in the U.K. as a whole.
Nicola Sturgeon
Los Angeles for many years had operated with a police department that was far smaller than other police departments had in areas of comparable or larger size, New York and Chicago being the most obvious examples.
Scott Turow
The 1970s – I was ten in 1975 – were a bad decade in all sorts of ways but the middle class had comfortable assumptions about the prospects for its children. The middle class was smaller then; it was a much less competitive Britain, less meritocratic.
David Miliband
Let me talk about what the banks are doing, and I think the banks have been working to make sure that, as much as possible, we move the currency to the smaller areas and to as many set of customers as possible.
Chanda Kochhar
We made ‘The Wind That Shakes the Barley’ about the war of independence and the civil war, which were the pivotal moments of Irish history, really. ‘Jimmy’s Hall’ would seem to be a smaller story 10 years later.
Ken Loach
While satellite operators can dodge large pieces of debris and armour satellites to withstand the impact of smaller fragments, with the need for a growing number of satellites in orbit we must be able to monitor the space highways and to gradually clear it of obstructions.
Alok Sharma
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
Bill Wyman
With electronics, they just get smaller and smaller.
Amy Heckerling
The ‘rock world’ is a lot smaller than it used to be. It’s doing a lot less things than it used to be. From Woodstock back in the day and Rage Against the Machine, no one sells millions of records anymore.
Austin Carlile
Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you’ll only play central characters in movies, you’ll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.
Joel Edgerton
Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better.
Donatella Versace
It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.
Karl Lagerfeld
I go to a lot of writers conferences and literary festivals that tend to be in college towns or cities, and I’m eager to see what happens if those same texts and those same questions move outside of those areas to smaller rural communities where there are surely people who read and love poetry.
Tracy K. Smith
I’ve had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.
Harvey Weinstein
If I’m gonna have a piece of pie, I’ll have a couple bites, or I’ll have a smaller piece. I’m not going to sit down and eat half a pie. I don’t do that.
Lori Loughlin
The world map looks smaller than ever before.
Max Azria
Killing animals and eating meat have been significant components of human evolution that had a synergistic relationship with other key attributes that have made us human, with larger brains, smaller guts, bipedalism, and language.
Vaclav Smil
I’m obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don’t use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were kids, but I discovered a new one at Danskin that’s smaller and weighted.
Catherine Zeta-Jones