Top 534 Smaller Quotes

People with banking experience haven’t all flocked to the biggest banks; community banks and regional banks, along with smaller trading houses and credit unions, have some very talented people.
Elizabeth Warren
Generally speaking, exoplanets can be any size, and they are found in a wide range of orbits. Some have massive gas atmospheres; others are smaller with an icy or rocky composition.
Debra Fischer
I always feel like if you have a smaller crew, you can not only get to know the individual strengths of people more specifically, but then, you also give them a longer runway to be able to apply the knowledge that they have learned to subsequent work.
Pete Docter
Paul Ryan says he’s for smaller government, and he’s funded every big government idea that there is.
Paul Nehlen
I enjoy my solo career because I get to play smaller places like clubs and theaters, and the interaction with the audience is much higher quality. It also sounds better than a baseball stadium. Everybody has a good seat, and I don’t have to play a specific part like I do in the Eagles.
Joe Walsh
There are good reasons why natural selection has become widely accepted as an explanation of evolutionary development. When applied to mammals and other large animals, it fits perfectly. But we cannot assume that all evolutionary steps arise from selection, particularly when looking at smaller animals.
John Tyler Bonner
I’ve been rich; I’ve been poor. I’ve been successful; I’ve been decimated. And the way I felt inside didn’t change dramatically. It’s less stressful to have money, that’s for sure. But that doesn’t mean I felt fulfilled. So I’ve learned to live in the smaller moments of life.
Molly Bloom
What was I like as a kid? The same as I am now, just smaller with a higher voice.
Chris Martin
Splitting your meals up into smaller, more frequent portions will enable food absorption and utilization of nutrients.
Dorian Yates
We have so many talented writers. Companies need to understand that smaller writers also need to be supported.
Nicola Roberts
Peter Schmeichel could make the goal look much smaller when you glanced up to hit a shot.
Paul Scholes
I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.
Scott Walker
If you’re a comedian, you can change peoples lives for the better in much smaller increments – not their entire life, but for 15 minutes or a half hour.
T. J. Miller
I know the ‘big spending club v. smaller club’ theme is popular in the Premier League. I don’t think about it – we are 30 teams trying to win the championship, and you do what you need to do.
Nick Nurse
It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigg

It’s gotten out of control. It’s taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won’t get made at all.
Glenn Close
The Big Bang theory is the idea that if we go back early enough in the history of the universe – and we can do this, of course, by looking at starlight coming to us from billions of years ago – we will see a very hot and dense period where the universe was much smaller, denser, and hotter.
David Gross
By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.
Mitt Romney
The government is just too big, and we have to make it smaller; people are getting lost.
Stacey Dash
If I had stayed at City I think I would have been someone who simply filled in when I was required. I’d rather go elsewhere and play regularly. Be a bigger part of a smaller team.
Micah Richards
Coming from a smaller nation in Central Europe, I have learned pretty soon how important are agreed rules, cooperation, respect for partners and, most of all, willingness to listen and find common solutions.
Miroslav Lajcak
I understood my path and what I meant to the game and what I mean to kids. Not only kids, but individuals around the world. Folks that didn’t think that the game was meant for smaller people. For me, I always felt that, tall or small, the game was for all.
Muggsy Bogues
I’m quite loud. When I was in film and TV, people were always saying, ‘Oh Kelly, make it smaller, make it smaller.’
Kelly Brook
We have table reads for every episode of ‘Billions.’ The core cast is smaller than the core cast on ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ so in that sense, it has more of a theater vibe.
Asia Kate Dillon
Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation’s support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
Theodore Bikel
I’m lucky that I get to do the bigger movies and the smaller movies.
Marc Platt
Hyperloop One wants to make the world one, wants to make the world smaller.
Shervin Pishevar
The smaller races were where you made your money.
Eddy Merckx
If you have smaller eyes, you should choose a thinner brow that isn’t very dark in color. This will open the eyes.
Anastasia Soare
When you’re fighting for an increasingly smaller portion of the pie, you turn against each other; you create reasons to hate each other.
Lynn Nottage
Instead of buying into the global agenda, which is using food as just industrial stuff, we would say we view food as biological, a living thing, that belongs in smaller communities.
Joel Salatin
Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.
Robert Carlyle
For swimsuits, a halter top with thick straps works wonders. It supports bigger busts, and the ruching gives fullness if you’re smaller.
Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss
I did some theatre. I had some smaller roles in a couple TV shows and films. I used to think I did a lot of acting, but my ‘career’ started when I started ‘Homeland’.
Morgan Saylor
We began in indies, and maybe we’ll make another smaller film again sometime.
Joe Russo
Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.
Kristen Stewart
There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it’s not something I’ve ever really been interested in. They’re great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental.
Billie Piper
I will continue to speak out against the views of both Limbaugh and Hannity when I feel it’s warranted, meeting their free speech with my own. But I will never forget that, without them, I’d have a much smaller platform on which to do it.
Alan Colmes
Due to my work, I tend to stay in hotels a lot of the time, and I generally prefer smaller hotels, as you tend to get better service than in the larger hotels.
Jools Holland
I’ve got a 27-inch waist. Before, I was stupid smaller. Finding clothes in the South was impossible.
Justin Townes Earle
When I was with WWE before, I was a big guy throwing people around – power moves. Then after that, when I left WWE, I was like, ‘I still enjoy professional wrestling,’ but some of the smaller guys look up at me and say, ‘I don’t wanna wrestle him. I don’t wanna get thrown around by that guy.’
Bobby Lashley
You especially want to strive for that nuance on a show like ‘The Flash,’ which is different from ‘Legends’ in the sense that it’s really, at its heart, a smaller show. It’s a more intimate show, in a way.
Matt Letscher
We like playing smaller venues, but we know how many people want to come and see us so we don’t ever want to stop anyone who wants to come to a show from coming.
Chester Bennington
I worked so hard for so long – I did a lot of movies. I also worked a lot when my kids were smaller, before they were in school.
Michelle Pfeiffer
What the mayors care about is, ‘How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?’
Michael Nutter
I have a Crock-Pot, and I have an All-Clad slow-cooker – I have two different ones. The All-Clad is larger, for maybe a gang of people, and my Crock-Pot’s a little smaller if I’m just making something for myself.
Milo Ventimiglia
Smaller groups of people can establish trusting relatio

Smaller groups of people can establish trusting relationships.
Patrick Lencioni
To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.
Phil Collins
If you look at some of the smaller capital markets in Asia, when they want funding, they either come here to Hong Kong or they go to California, the mecca of the Internet, because they can capture the liquidity and then move on and do what they want to do, which is develop a business.
Richard Li
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
Leonardo da Vinci
Playing the same role over and over makes me feel claustrophobic sometimes and smaller than I am.
Kerry Bishe
Taller people get very competitive. When I meet someone who’s close to me or taller, I’m straight up; I don’t wanna be smaller than them.
Kristian Nairn
It’s glamorous when a movie is released, but then you feel disconnected from it. Someone asked if it wouldn’t be more glamorous for me being on Broadway rather than Off Broadway, but I thought, ‘What’s the difference?’ The Orpheum is a smaller house, that’s all. And there are no mikes, so you just talk louder.
Brooke Adams
One of my worries about America is the epidemic of depression we’ve been in. One of the possibilities about that is that the ‘I’ gets bigger and bigger, and the ‘we’ gets smaller and smaller.
Martin Seligman
I feel like big men don’t like it when they’re getting fronted by smaller guys and they just staying real, real aggressive.
JaVale McGee
It’s nice to be in a smaller room. I like the big arenas as well, but at my core, I’m a live performer, so it’s nice to be able to feel the warmth of everybody in the room.
Alice Ripley