Littles famous quotes

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
-- A. C. Benson

#Long #Age #Littles

The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
-- A. D. Gordon

#Men #Soul #Littles

You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
-- A. E. Housman

#Over You #Littles #Lovers

I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Names #Littles #Causes

I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Littles #Good Things

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
-- A. J. P. Taylor

#Littles #Rage #Fascism

I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.
-- A. Theodore Tuttle

#Thinking #Church #Littles

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
-- A.C. Grayling

#Littles #Eccentric #Way

I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.
-- A.M. Homes

#Secret #Littles #Facts

Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#People #Giving #Littles

I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed,
-- Aaron Lewis

#Weed #Bottles #Littles

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.
-- Aaron Tveit

#Littles #Today #Tvs

Don't. Please, just let me hold you a little bit longer," he mumbled into my hair
-- Abbi Glines

#Hair #Littles #Let Me

Last question. Why do you love Della? - Braden Until Della walked into my life I didn’t understand the idea of love. I had never been in love and experienced very little love in my life. But I’d seen it once -Woods
-- Abbi Glines

#Ideas #Littles #Woods

I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
-- Abbie Cornish

#Littles #Laptops #Recording Studio

Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi

#Men #Friendly #Littles

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Littles #Dirt #Impossible

A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook

#Littles #Tiny #Little Things

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Animal #Littles #Tonight

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Say Anything #Littles #Produce

Public property has the same standing with me as that of an orphan; if it is much, it must be conserved, and if it is little, it must be used with care.
-- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

#Care #Littles #Orphan

The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
-- Adam Arkin

#Reality #Ideas #Littles

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.
-- Adam Clarke

#Done #Littles #Christ

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.
-- Adam Clymer

#Writing #Would Be #Littles

It can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics,
-- Adam Foulds

#Attention #Littles #Difficult

There was a little element of feeling like a cow.
-- Adam Gilchrist

#Feelings #Elements #Littles

I have done all the work I usually do and a little bit more, so hopefully that will produce results in at least one of the last two Tests.
-- Adam Gilchrist

#Two #Done #Littles

All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
-- Adam Gopnik

#Secret #Quality #Littles

Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.
-- Adam Lambert

#Stars #Hook #Littles

I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world,
-- Adam Levine

#World #Littles

Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
-- Adam Oates

#Player #Littles #Assistants

There's a little bit of magic in every box!
-- Adam Rex

#Magic #Littles #Boxes

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.
-- Adam Savage

#Laughing #Littles #Make You Laugh

When you get a little older, you'll see how easy it is to become lured by the female of the species.
-- Adam West

#Female #Littles #Easy

I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything.
-- Adam Yauch

#Thinking #Feelings #Littles

Repentance is for little children.
-- Adolf Eichmann

#Children #Littles #Repentance

A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.
-- Adrian Desmond

#Men #Thinking #Littles

Don't let a little sin in; all hell will break loose.
-- Adrian Rogers

#Littles #Sin #Hell

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.
-- Adriana Trigiani

#Secret #Purpose #Littles

A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.
-- Adrien Brody

#Kindness #Attention #Littles

Little friends may prove great friends.
-- Aesop

#May #Littles #Great Friend

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
-- Aesop

#Adversity #Men #Littles

Dream a little dream, Or you can live a little dream I'd rather live it 'Cause dreamers always chase But never get it
-- Aesop Rock

#Dream #Dreamer #Littles

These little grey cells. It is up to them.
-- Agatha Christie

#Cells #Literature #Littles

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot
-- Agatha Christie

#Cells #Brain #Littles

You should employ your little grey cells
-- Agatha Christie

#Cells #Littles #Should

If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
-- Agnes Denes

#Flower #Littles #Bees

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.
-- Agnes Obel

#Piano #Littles #Sometimes

Economics and ethics have little in common.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Littles #Ethics #Common

It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Thinking #Feelings #Littles

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Past #Disease #Littles

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
-- Agnes Smedley

#Paper #Littles #Holding On

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.
-- Agnetha Faltskog

#May #Littles #Too Much

A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.
-- Aharon Appelfeld

#Mind #Littles #Togetherness

Tell me, if you thought a man had a tendresse for you, but he wasn't doing anything about it. And you wanted to hurry him up a little so you made a move, an unmistakable move; one that nobody could pretend had been a misunderstanding. And he - he ignored it - ignored you. What would you feel?
-- Ahdaf Soueif

#Moving #Men #Littles

Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word
-- Ahmed Ben Bella

#Unity #May #Littles

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
-- Ahmet Ertegun

#Greatness #African American #Littles

I'll make you so in love with me, that everytime our lips touch, you'll die a little death.
-- Ai Yazawa

#Littles #Lips

Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Self #Littles #Common

That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
-- Aimee Bender

#Burgers #Littles #Handmade

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
-- Aimee Bender

#Kissing #Years #Littles

Let's keep that our little secret, shall we.
-- Aimee Semple McPherson

#Secret #Religion #Littles

I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
-- Aisha Tyler

#Supportive #Littles

Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
-- Ajahn Chah

#Letting Go #Littles

With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world. We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
-- Ajahn Chah

#Teacher #World #Littles

I love going to the factories of La Plata, or Little Havana and seeing them roll cigars. I get excited. To me it is more beautiful than a topless club
-- Al Goldstein

#Beautiful #Clubs #Littles

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.
-- Al Hirt

#Style #Littles

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.
-- Al Jarreau

#Talking #Littles #Messages

Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
-- Al Pacino

#Men #Littles #Reputation

I wouldn't trust a man who wouldn't try to steal a little.
-- Al Swearengen

#Men #Trying #Littles

A little doubt is better than total credulity
-- Al-Maʿarri

#Doubt #Littles #Credulity

Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
-- Alain de Botton

#May #Littles #Rich

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
-- Alain de Botton

#Successful #Incentives #Littles

Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
-- Alain de Botton

#Thinking #Different #Littles

Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
-- Alain de Botton

#Desire #May #Littles

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.
-- Alain Prost

#Teamwork #Team #Littles

When I was 12 I made some little films with my friends. I tried to make gangster films, like Fantomas, but I remember being very disappointed with them. They weren't frightening at all. I'm sure they'd be very funny now.
-- Alain Resnais

#Littles #Remember #Film

I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is. I don't want to work for scale anymore. I'm at a point now where, no matter how good something is, I'm not going to kill myself and end up in the hole.
-- Alan Arkin

#Actors #Want #Littles

If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.
-- Alan Ayckbourn

#Women #Believe #Littles

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.
-- Alan Ball

#Tv Shows #Littles #Tvs

Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
-- Alan Bennett

#Littles #Statistics #Might

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
-- Alan Cohen

#Delight #Kites #Littles

Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.
-- Alan Colmes

#Would Be #Littles #Lasts

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.
-- Alan Cumming

#Boys #Littles #Should

I read very little contemporary anything.
-- Alan Furst

#Littles #Contemporary

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
-- Alan Greenspan

#Jobs #Littles #Economics

The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.
-- Alan Jackson

#Energy #Littles #Should

Stay close to the young... and a little rubs off.
-- Alan Jay Lerner

#Children #Littles #Young

But leisure has little to do with one's happiness.  To the contrary, I've found that the happiest people have found some cause and they stride through life propelled by a commitment.
-- Alan Loy McGinnis

#Commitment #People #Littles

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
-- Alan Rickman

#Art #Littles #Robust

Actors are frightened little children.
-- Alan Rosenberg

#Children #Actors #Littles

Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?
-- Alan Shepard

#Moon #Light #Littles

There are two fools in every marketplace; one asks too little, one asks too much.
-- Alan Sugar

#Two #Stupidity #Littles

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.
-- Alan Thicke

#Darkness #Elements #Littles

My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
-- Alan Turing

#Morning #Funny Things #Littles

If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me...
-- Alan Watts

#Wake Up #Littles #Poor

It's a sad world we live in when a human being leaves so little of a mark that no one even realizes it when he's gone
-- Alane Ferguson

#Gone #World #Littles

There were a lot of people who were a little afraid of the rage or blaming stance I was taking, and find what I am doing now more refreshing.
-- Alanis Morissette

#People #Littles #Blame

Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Europe #America #Littles

I've always wanted to act since I was little.
-- Alanna Ubach

#Littles #Wanted