Top 534 Smaller Quotes

There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
Isaac Goldberg
Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
Tom Waits
Playing football in Fargo has a total big-time feel. Everyone says it’s FCS and it’s a smaller school, but in Fargo, North Dakota, and in the state of North Dakota, NDSU football is the real deal.
Carson Wentz
Part of the greatness of being on the Island is it’s a smaller community; all of the players live within a couple miles of each other. It really promotes that family sort of atmosphere without being engulfed by the big city.
Barry Trotz
In the U.S., it would be so much better if the studios made many more smaller films for niche markets rather than a few tent pole films that swamp cinemas and Hoover up all the funding.
Beeban Kidron
Black liner around the eye makes your eyes look smaller. I think you should reassess, if you’re a really big black liner user, maybe even just doing the top line, not lower, or try a brown or a plum or even a navy.
Zoe Foster Blake
Having had polio never held me back as I got older. Although having one leg smaller than the other isn’t much fun, I could always get about without any trouble. Luckily, in the music industry, everyone was only interested in my singing and playing and not the size of my legs.
Donovan
The longer we were in it, the smaller it seemed to get.
William Beebe
Sometimes people have a hard time believing that a company is intentionally trying to make itself smaller.
Ted Waitt
Deep Purple was sinking with Ritchie. We were playing t

Deep Purple was sinking with Ritchie. We were playing to quarter houses in Europe, which is one of our strongest territories – in Germany. Smaller venues, and they weren’t even full. So had we continued that way, and had Ritchie not walked out, we would have finished; that would have been the end of it.
Ian Gillan
As the Executive Chairman of ‘Breitbart News’ with a long run in business and finance, I can tell you, it’s hard to run a company that is infinitesimally smaller than Fox; it takes a steady and experienced hand.
Steve Bannon
I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate.
Kristi Yamaguchi
Since I was a kid, I inherited my dad’s love for animals and wildlife, even for the ones we had around the house in the French countryside, a ‘smaller’ kind of nature. Then, as I grew up, I looked more deeply into the African continent and its wildlife.
Laurent Baheux
Since 9/11 we have somehow come to accept the ‘radicalization’ narrative, which basically holds that people become terrorists through a series of consecutive, traceable steps laid out for them by large international Islamic organizations. Reality is messier, and also smaller.
Masha Gessen
But I like the small places myself. I mean, you know you can really feel it, and for me the music just goes really well in the smaller places.
Pegi Young
My power is a characteristic of my skill, no different than someone who’s smaller and has speed as their skill.
Bob Sapp
The real issue for the public is to figure out which narrative do we want. We can have a bigger government, if that’s the public’s choice. It’ll just require higher taxes on every American. Do you want that, or do you want smaller government, smaller taxes?
Glenn Hubbard
I’m going to be doing solo stuff. The idea is to do ‘small’ and ‘off my beaten path,’ or go back to an old, beaten path – do some smaller things that I haven’t done in 15 or 20 years. Just to sort of get my feet wet, because I haven’t done my own material for a couple of years – I’ve been doing a lot of other things.
Patty Griffin
We were looking almost one-tenth of the way to the edge of the universe. We’re planning to use the facilities we have to make improvements by another factor of 10… a strain sensitivity that is 10 times smaller. This means looking 10 times further out into the universe.
Rainer Weiss
I don’t see it as a disability. I’m just a normal person, but a bit smaller than everyone else.
Ellie Simmonds
I think the climate of wrestling has changed. I think the big guy, The Giant, The Big John Studd’s of the world are an endangered species because the business has become smaller.
Tyrus
You can’t expect to connect with everybody, and that’s all right. The more I make films, I’m learning that you don’t have to make films for everybody. A film can be made for a smaller group of people than that, and it still warrants an existence.
Andrew Haigh
If you look at the difference games between the bigger and smaller teams, the difference in concentration, and being passive is big; that is my opinion.
Georginio Wijnaldum
I’m a big girl, so I want somebody that’s going to make me look a little bit smaller.
Retta
I’m a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.
Ed Begley, Jr.
You do need to edit yourself as you shoot because you have fewer options in a smaller movie. In other words, when I’m shooting a big movie, and I got an 85 day shooting schedule or more, then I’m saying I have enough time to shoot option A and B and C and D for every scene.
David Twohy
We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture – imagine this – where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
Michelle Obama
On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder.
Frank Gehry
With clothing being designed that allows you to be hugged virtually, video conferencing becoming ever sharper, and our social and romantic lives increasingly taking place online, the gap between the physical and the virtual is getting ever smaller.
Noreena Hertz
I really loved making ‘A Walk to Remember’, so I’m not afraid of making smaller films. But for me, I just need to connect to the characters.
Adam Shankman
Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.
David Mitchell
Tuscan sausages are smaller than their American cousins, each one demarcated with a string, a graceful loop drawn tightly into a knot – looping and tightening, looping and tightening, a symmetrically floppy, aesthetically appealing rhythm.
Bill Buford
I love Felicity Jones. It was funny because I went to go see the ‘Rogue One’ set, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, I love you.’ And she’s so tiny, and elegant, and she’s just so small. Everyone’s so much smaller than they seem.
Daisy Ridley
We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe.
Edwin Powell Hubble
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
James Boswell
We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.
Dimitar Sasselov
You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they’re tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
Rand Paul
Arkansas is a very small state, and it’s even a smaller field when you break it down to Republicans in this state.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
Sam Kean
I was a smaller kid when I was growing up so I had to learn some defensive skills. I had to grind a little bit and win points by scrapping it out.
Jack Sock
Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a

Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks.
Judd Gregg
Some films really do take years to get going, but I’d say that most of the films I want to do are slightly smaller projects. Some could be sketches. They’re not all oil paintings.
Richard Linklater
I used to be smaller than I am now, and it didn’t make my life any easier. It’s not really about your body. It’s about what’s going on inside, in your head and your heart.
Molly Tarlov
Liberals want the government to get bigger, and they want you to drive smaller cars, and they want to dictate the way you live.
Rush Limbaugh
You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.
Joe Klein
Investment is crucial but it’s just the start. You look at some of the nations that have massive budgets but don’t perform, then there are smaller nations who don’t have massive budgets and can still get a reasonable medal count.
Chris Hoy
Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
Daniel Bryan
They like to match giants against smaller guys in Japan, so I’d like to fight a heavier opponent. I’d like this type of fight, against a stronger opponent.
Patricio Freire
I think of myself as making independent films within the studio system. Yes, I’ve made movies with significantly larger budgets, and I’ve also made movies with smaller budgets.
Doug Liman
I don’t want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller.
Goran Visnjic
In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.
Bela Karolyi