Top 534 Smaller Quotes

Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller – and therefore shorter-lived – adults.
Robert Fogel
Buffon may be a bit smaller, but he has everything that you want from a great goalkeeper. He relays his confidence to his defence, and they feel that they have a great keeper behind them. Everybody can make mistakes, but his consistency level is amazing. You never see him have a bad game.
Petr Cech
You can’t compete with Walmart. But you can have smaller businesses that are successful.
Bill Cosby
Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.
Arthur Lowe
With the exception of an occasional cocktail party with friends, my holiday entertaining mostly centers around smaller get-togethers with family.
Ree Drummond
I intend to get four people in a tent that I can attest is absolutely smaller than the Dragon spacecraft, on a mountain when it’s snowing out, and introduce everybody to some really stressful situations. We are all going to know each other incredibly well long before we ever strap into Dragon.
Jared Isaacman
You can’t just go out and buy players and make a super team, because it’s so hard to do that. The salary cap doesn’t allow it. We have a much smaller salary cap than the NBA, and they only have 12 on a roster.
Connor McDavid
That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller.
Lew Wasserman
I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.
David Guetta
They’ll touch you and look at your skin to see if it’s paint. I’m not playing. All Russia is not like that. You’ve got your big cities like Moscow, St. Petersburg. Some cities understand that there are black people. They do exist. But the smaller cities, the little villages, they’ve never seen it.
Gerald Green
The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.
Kevin McCloud
A smaller waist is not the solution to all your problems.
Lionel Shriver
That’s the way we want to go. Make smaller targets and then step by step developing.
Ralph Hasenhuttl
Don’t ignore big problems, and don’t try to pretend that problems are smaller than they are.
Gina Raimondo
I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was ‘Party Girl’ or ‘House of Yes.’ But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
Parker Posey
On economic policy, my support of smaller government, lower taxes and economic reform is consistent with the mainstream of the Republican Party in the United States and with many Democrats as well.
John Howard
What Bharat Natyam has taught me is to appreciate the smaller things in life.
Shobana
My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who’s strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.
Chiaki Kuriyama
Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.
Safra A. Catz
As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.
Craig Brown
I’ve lost 12 inches in three weeks. Every time I go for the costume fitting each week, it’s smaller and smaller. I’m feeling great. I’m putting in the work. I’m getting a lot of sleep. Everything is on the backburner right now. ‘Dancing’ is my priority.
Ricki Lake
Those of us who live in Mumbai or Delhi have notions about what women who live in Bhopal, or smaller towns, are like; and that perception is wrong. Some people are scared by how complex and subversive these women’s lives can be.
Konkona Sen Sharma
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
Vernor Vinge
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
Aesop
I write R-rated action dramas, and every year that goes

I write R-rated action dramas, and every year that goes by, that gets to be a smaller and smaller world you have to work in. You have to think of how to get the studio excited and sell them something.
Brian Helgeland
I believe in eating smaller meals more often throughout the day to keep the metabolism going. Don’t deprive yourself, just make better choices. At 50 years old it is definitely a lot harder to stay in shape then it was when I was in my 20’s.
Todd English
The world is still changing. Faster than ever. And so should the Republican Party. Or condemn itself to a smaller and smaller base of core supporters and permanent minority status.
Mark McKinnon
I’m one of those people that thinks the world changes in smaller and in more mysterious ways than a lot of people like to think. A lot of traditional charities and organizations do things that on the surface seem like a good idea, but it doesn’t change the way that people think about interacting with other people.
Misha Collins
The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70’s.
Nelson DeMille
I don’t think smaller guys usually bother me on my shot too much.
Khris Middleton
All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn’t have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.
Shakira
I have a smaller bottom lip, but in ‘Wheeler,’ I had a lip over my lip. It’s fat, and it helped with my accent.
Stephen Dorff
We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first time ever we can describe a city in real time.
Carlo Ratti
Smaller players in the Premier League are very good at using their bodies and that’s what I will continue to do.
Shinji Kagawa
When you’re in a big theater, you want to reach the very top of the place. Up to the highest seat, so that each person feels like you’re talking to them. There’s really no difference when you’re in a smaller place; you just don’t overdo it. It becomes far more personal.
Chita Rivera
For all it is a smaller country in terms of geography, Holland is the most closely aligned market to the U.K. in terms of trend. It is a big nation of card-makers and paper crafters, and Germany’s market is at least five times larger than over here.
Sara Davies
I’m against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.
Jesse Ventura
Can I be a leading man? I don’t believe myself to be; I don’t think that I am, but I’m in this place as a performer where I think about how to make things smaller, more subtle.
James Ransone
I basically eat a lot of proteins, and I’ve been eating smaller portions of food. I try to eat all locally raised and organic produce.
Norman Reedus
The technologies of convenience are making our sphere of exploration and experience smaller.
Robert Englund
As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn’t see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.
Neil Young
Smaller portions of good foods are more satisfying than larger portions of junk foods, especially if you pay attention to what you’re eating.
Dean Ornish
I do tend to like movies that challenge me professionally. That’s mostly on a smaller scale, when you have one or two or five actors, and it’s all about the acting and not the camera.
Ayelet Zurer
What we won’t become is a ‘Democratic Party lite!’ We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them.
Ed Rollins
One reason the Founding Fathers thought that states should have two senators was so that smaller states wouldn’t get run over and could bring their interests to the attention of the Senate more broadly.
Kent Conrad
I’ve met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.
Daniela Ruah
People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.
Yoko Ono
My family, doctors, and society at large were constantly telling me that I was too heavy, that I needed to exercise more, that I should be smaller.
Beanie Feldstein
Music is like the genius of humankind, universal… People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
Flea
War made my everyday problems seem much smaller, and when it is hard sometimes, I just remember that it could be much worse.
Edin Dzeko
I have always worked consistently, even in small ways and even in smaller theaters where I’ll do One Acts or something.
Theresa Rebeck
I feel like smaller countries, other countries, they cheer, they support their people no matter what. We need to get a little bit more supportive of our people.
Chris Weidman
When I post a photo from a ‘good angle,’ I receive criticism for looking smaller and selling out. When I post photos showing my cellulite, stretch marks, and rolls, I’m accused of promoting obesity.
Ashley Graham
In the beginning, I thought mobile search was not much different from Web search. It’s just a smaller screen, a slower speed; it’s all the bad things. When I thought about mobile Internet, it’s all the disadvantages.
Robin Li
One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure… worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids’ futures… actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people’s everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.
Nick Clegg
Utah's economy stays strong by adhering to conservative

Utah’s economy stays strong by adhering to conservative fundamental principles: low and consistent tax rates, smaller and more efficient government, sensible regulation, and empowering the private sector to create jobs.
Gary Herbert