Top 534 Smaller Quotes

I think it’s unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
Gary Speed
Being a smaller, nimbler company is better for our customers, employees and shareholders.
Ted Waitt
I started working in New York City as an actor and did many plays. I did regional theater, smaller theaters, children’s theater.
Christopher Guest
It’s one of my stronger points claiming high balls. I’m tall, so that helps me. If you’re a smaller goalkeeper, crosses in England are even harder.
Thibaut Courtois
I was a lot smaller in high school, and guys were a lot bigger and faster than me. I stole some bases in high school, but it wasn’t until my senior year that I started getting faster.
Trea Turner
There’s only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.
Kim Gordon
The league is shifting. It’s becoming a smaller league, way more speed-dominant. So you’re seeing more backs like me who can run between the tackles, pass-protect, catch and become matchup nightmares. You also have more receivers who are getting jet sweeps, doing different things with the ball in their hands.
Christian McCaffrey
Some people aren’t great with babies, or they’re not great with a smaller child – it’s not that they’re bad mothers.
Cara Buono
Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!
Angie Stone
As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there’s a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought.
Dean Kamen
Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Not only has Paul Ryan not died on any hill for a position he believes in to make government smaller, he hasn’t even skinned his knee.
Paul Nehlen
On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors – mainly because they occupy a smaller amount of physical space than those who penned them. Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer himself has turned into a handful of dust.
Joseph Brodsky
I was always looking to record, but how much I actually

I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren’t that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn’t have any money to do anything.
Dan Hicks
They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells and going into different areas, recruiting more members and just growing until they had started a full scale war in this country.
Patty Hearst
In the U.S. box-office driven industry, if you want to do a smaller personal film, you have to find your own financing.
Kari Skogland
I can work on stage. I’ve done it before. But the parts that were better for me were smaller, not as projected as theater should be in many cases.
Mark Ivanir
My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.
Beth Ditto
The world is getting smaller. And people are bumping up against people from different parts of the world with very different points of view. The challenge of our time is going to be, how do you allow other points of view to exist within what you traditionally see as your world?
Kumail Nanjiani
The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?
Bill O’Reilly
In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.
Charles Babbage
I think the world’s a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors – not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We’re all up for grabs.
Sonya Walger
Air is the enemy of most foods and can increase their rate of spoilage. By transferring them to smaller containers, you not only minimize air contact, but you also help keep your fridge organized and easy to navigate.
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.
Stanley Tucci
The CCP has become the political incarnation of the deadly coronavirus, infecting the world with illegal trade practices, arm twisting smaller nations, debt – a.k.a death – traps and sinister imperialist ambition.
Vivek Agnihotri
Technology is getting smaller, faster, cheaper, and more powerful every day.
Tae Yoo
We are being entertained all the time – in the bathroom, on the train, in our beds. Sure, there is a smaller audience for theater. But we know from radio that entertainment never goes away, it just changes. And more power to it.
Mike Nichols
Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time to go and give back to people who don’t have the opportunities I have. It’s a very important thing to me.
Ashley Greene
I think we are in an age where cash pays for time and space. The more cash you have, the bigger space you can buy and the smaller the technology to put in it.
Lemn Sissay
The world itself has become a smaller place. If you want to be remembered and create a legacy, you have to reach out to people. They want to know you. I can just say where I’m going, and Twitter will get it, and if there’s a controversy, I can give my opinion. It’s easier to communicate.
Madhuri Dixit
Guys are attracted based on looks 95% of the time. Girls are almost the opposite. Looks are a smaller factor. They’re more attracted to a confident guy, or a successful guy, or someone who makes them laugh, or makes them feel comfortable.
Dan Bilzerian
I think Cardiff is one of the better venues, a bit like the Matchplay where you’ve got a smaller crowd but more of an atmosphere.
Gerwyn Price
There’s a lot of people who think in order to be a good head coach, you’ve got to be a head coach at a smaller school.
Kirby Smart
Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I’m pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.
Helena Bonham Carter
If you’re going to be a media brand and not just a linear television brand, then you have to make sure you’re speaking to all women and all interests, so it may mean that you end up smaller audiences serving individual pieces of content, but the aggregate is what’s important and what we’re paying attention to.
Nancy Dubuc
Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there’s a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.
Jeff Bridges
Working at a big company sucks – avoid it. Smaller companies are 10 times better for learning.
Scott Weiss
The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.
Jock Sturges
Our nation is not a fully representative democracy if we do not have a one-person, one-vote method of directly electing our president. It disproportionately tilts favor to smaller states with smaller populations.
Shaun King
Instead of being able to look at smaller interesting research projects, I am trying to see the links between all the research NASA does. For me, that’s extremely fun because I get to go play and learn about areas of science that I know nothing about.
Ellen Stofan
I think, bottom line, I have to be good enough to make the team. I have to bring something in and beat somebody else out, especially with a smaller roster for the Olympics.
Megan Rapinoe
Women think that smaller brows will open up their eyes, but that’s wrong and it affects your entire face.
Anastasia Soare
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken
As long as we can make them smaller, we can make them faster.
Seymour Cray
I liked being in a smaller theater. I love doing shows

I liked being in a smaller theater. I love doing shows of all sizes, but sometimes it’s nice to be in a smaller space and to strip away some of the music so that you can be a little less than larger-than-life; you can be a little more naturalistic.
Max von Essen
I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I’m able to compete in?
Mindy Kaling
A worldwide shift to a shorter working week could cut the CO2 emitted this century by half. Countries with a shorter working week have a smaller ecological footprint.
Rutger Bregman
I’m covered in tattoos head to toe, I have this striking style, I’m smaller than most competitors, and people are like, ‘Yeah. That’s my guy.’ Why? Because they can see part of themselves in me.
Aleister Black
The smaller newspapers probably won’t have any critics at all. Maybe that’s not such a bad thing because there’s a certain level of seriousness that you can’t get with a small newspaper for critics.
Terry Teachout
Beware of politicians who tell you they’ll do all these wonderful things for you for only a small tax increase. Those tax increases are never as small as you might imagine, and the benefits are always smaller than promised and/or imagined.
Fabrizio Moreira
Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.
Tamra Davis