Small Quotations | Page 6

When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, England. I was so scared at first, not knowing if this little girl from small town Canada could possibly make it with these highly trained London dancers.

The only leftovers there are some of the apples. There might be enough to take home and make a small batch of something.

The primary business of small business owners is business not technology.

The pricing is something that has been a problem for quite some time, when the front of the plane was basically subsidizing the back of the plane. The very small number of people who were paying for the very high fares were resentful.

The prices are better on the small deals because they are off the radar screens of the large pools of capital.

The price looks high but it's still a small dish for Citigroup.

We were concerned with the perception that these units would look really small and feel really cramped.

We need block cells with solid doors that contain a small window for viewing inside the cell. Those are safer than cells with bars. Also, we don't need to be locking and unlocking doors with keys. We need buttons.

We need to look at the whole package. It would be a good reminder that this decision is a very small portion of a student's total bill.

We need to be careful what we rent, and when we rent. If you can use a mid-size car, use a mid-size, or if you can use a small car. ...

When you consider there are only 119 I-A colleges, and we might have five or six sign with those schools this year, that's pretty impressive for just a small corridor of the country.

When you consider the power of these units and then think of four separate devices that you'd have to make room for, or stack on top of each other, they really are quite small for what they do.

When you come from a small school, you have to play who you have. We've been doing it all season. We're not blessed with depth.

When we see a change in payrolls that is dominated by a glitch in the seasonal factor, no change in average hourly earnings and only a small gain in the length in the average workweek, we know that the message is encouraging but not exhilarating,

When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn't that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we're going to Moscow. We're going to Italy. We're going to Toronto. We're going to New York.

We've never been in a market like this, where gasoline prices are cheap. It's a world that's very hostile to small cars.

We want to make sure the company and the (Public Utilities) Commission focuses on what we think is a potentially very difficult challenge for the small business community. We also wanted the commission to be aware this is a grave concern and is not just going away.

We want to make sure that small counties understand that if they take a high profile case like this to court, it's not going to force their community to go bankrupt,

The plane started to slide off and we fell into a small ravine.

We're showing the world your company in a very short period of time and in a very small space. We have to get the right brand and the right message out there. When somebody is walking through a hall, you have their attention for about three seconds. You need to transmit a message to them within that time, make them understand what you're selling. There's a lot of thought that goes into these things.

We're serious about our musical heritage here, ... Not every small town can claim the likes of someone like Howlin' Wolf.

We're looking at a very small group of men and women, particularly focusing on one character. There are a couple of ships, including a principal ship, but this is not a traditional captain and crew of a starship story in the least.

We're concerned about how he's going to know the difference between a small dog and a small kid.

We're not doing the small things it takes to win right now. We've got to go back to the drawing board and practice blocking out, faking before we pass, making free throws.

Like all Americans, members of the Stanford community feel great compassion for the many who have suffered loss and a desire to respond to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, ... We are committed to helping out in whatever way we can, and we hope these efforts will make a small contribution to the outpouring of relief to victims of this disaster.

Make diversity too small and you increase the impact of population-level events, make it too diverse and you can reduce manageability and thereby make individual-level events more likely. Heterogeneity has to be balanced with manageability for the organization's maximum benefit.

MAGNITUDE, n. Size. Magnitude being purely relative, nothing is large and nothing small. If everything in the universe were increased in bulk one thousand diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been. To an understanding familiar with the relativity of magnitude and distance the spaces and masses of the astronomer would be no more impressive than those of the microscopist. For anything we know to the contrary, the visible universe may be a small part of an atom, with its component ions, floating in the life- fluid (luminiferous ether) of some animal. Possibly the wee creatures peopling the corpuscles of our own blood are overcome with the proper emotion when contemplating the unthinkable distance from one of these to another.

Make them pitch into his strike zone. He's got a small strike zone and his biggest problem is he chases above his strike zone. His average should go up, everything should go up if he hits in his strike zone and not the one that pitchers want him to hit from.

Machines this small tend to stick to everything they touch, the way sand sticks to your feet after a day at the beach, ... So we built these microrobots without any wheels or hinged joints, which must slide smoothly on their bearings. Instead, these robots move by bending their bodies like caterpillars. At very small scales, this machine is surprisingly fast.

maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to play one day)and maggie discovered a shell that sangso sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,andmillie befriended a stranded starwho's rays five languid fingers were;and molly was chased by a horrible thingwhich raced sideways while blowing bubbles:andmay came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone.For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)it's always ourselves we find in the sea.

Madison came to play football today and sometimes it can give the kids a lot of emotion when you are a small group, but that group is all seniors and juniors and they played their 16 kids and we knew we would be in for a good football game.

Level 3 is trying to consolidate the small players, trying to amass enough local scale so they don't have to build everything (from scratch).

lends itself to an individual in a corporation or a small group.

Let that vendor host your Web package for a small monthly fee. Get started quickly and simply. Then watch to see what happens and what customers ask for before making the next investment.

License plate recognition systems don't create congestion. For small states like Connecticut, where people can easily drive through without having to buy gas, drivers are essentially using the state's roads for free. Tolls are an effective way to collect money from them.

Lots of companies sell basic communications and connectivity. ATX goes far beyond that to offer meaningful ideas and solutions that truly enhance the way businesses operate and compete. From maximizing employee productivity, to protecting mission-critical data, to increasing cost-efficiency, we're helping small and mid-size organizations improve the way they do business.

Lou has really put us on the map. He has been so important to this program because he's shown other kids in the school that you can wrestle and be successful at St. Mary's. Just because we're a small school and we have to roll out the mats in the cafeteria to practice, it doesn't mean we can't be competitive.

Look, this is what we are built for. You've got mundane days in the business and then days like this when all your work and planning are put to the test. We've got two small armies in two different parts of the world.

Last year, we ended up getting some matches out of it (hosting the Small College Championships) some teams wanted to come back down here and play.

Last year, there wasn't much team chemistry or leadership; it was just in small groups. We have a good bond this year and will work well together.

Last year the Parish Nurses received grant funding to do a drug prevention education calendar. The Scouts did a pilot project by doing several small presentations and having students do drawings. Calendars were made and distributed to elementary schools in Derby, Seymour and Oxford.

Many of the people at these booths are reputable, but there's a small percentage that engage in the resell of tickets.

Many of us dismiss talk that does not convey important information as worthless - meaningless small talk if it's a social setting or "empty rhetoric" if it's public. Such admonitions as "Skip the small talk, " "Get to the point," or "Why don't you say what you mean?" may seem to be reasonable. But they are reasonable only if information is all that counts. This attitude toward talk ignores the fact that people are emotionally involved with each other and that talking is the major way be establish, maintain, monitor and adjust our relationships.

Many stars cannot be concealed by a small cloud

Many small companies simply don't want to get bigger. We did a case study on one company in which the owner had a chance to buy out a competitor and decided against it. He told me, 'I'd rather pack my kids' lunch and walk them to school.' He just felt his life was a lot better if he stayed small.

Many small businesses do not have the knowledge about what incentives are available to them.

Many would argue (child labor) has to occur because families need to have their child bringing home that small amount of money. But the fact is that if those children were in school today they could contribute more to their families,

Many companies have suffered from unreasonable speculation, small initial share float, and boom-bust cycles that hurt them and their investors in the long run. We believe that an auction-based IPO will minimize these problems.

Scout, ... started as a small company with three people. A small ... television film development company.

Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.

Seventy-one percent of small businesses say they'd rather have phone leads than clicks.

Serving small customers on a long-term basis doesn't provide enough of a margin. It might be a different equation for a company spending 10 times or more than your average retail customer.

Sean: See you Monday. We'll be talking about Freud and why he did enough cocaine to kill a small horse.

So it's an old, aging system that instead of protecting farmland is actually protecting small cities, levees of questionable integrity protecting higher value real estate.

She's the best girls player I've ever seen. To score 2,000-plus points is amazing and I am proud just to have been a small part of it. She's a great kid with a great future in front of her. Fairmont State is not only getting a great player, but a great person and I am going to miss her.

She's so small (59 lbs.) we didn't want her to get hurt or lose confidence so we moved her to the backside. She'll have to run 3/8 to be a star.

She was a great person, a good mother, a wonderful sister and a great daughter. We were just a small family, born and bred in the Westchester area. This is just a huge tragedy.

She used to push a snack cart around. She would go into rooms and rearrange flowers and toss the dead ones out. It was a small gesture, but the patients really appreciated it.

She was very informative. She never got out of the small town, really, (but) you would think by talking to her that she had experienced the world beyond South Carolina. She didn't let the small town hinder her from actually knowing the world.

She's small, but she's the strongest kid on the team. She came in with fire and intensity, got on the floor and grabbed loose balls. As small as she is, she's strong enough to box out and grab rebounds and produce offense. She has good moves. She's just small, so she really has to work twice as hard as everybody else.

She's small and she's inexperienced . . . but she's feisty.

She's got my all-star vote, ... I think you'll see her in a bunch of these before her career is over. She's quick. She's tough. She has great vision. People might talk about her being small but you can't talk about the small game to me. She's having a tremendous season.

She's certainly more well-known than Jonathan Alston. She's got more name recognition and a small group of loyal supporters.

Some ? a very small percentage, we believe ? did not survive the storm. A larger number are kids who are probably with mom or dad or grandma, but other family members don't know where they are. We think they're safe, they just haven't been in touch with the rest of the family yet.

Some asteroids look like small planets, not very disturbed, and at the other end of the spectrum are ones that look like iron-rich dog bones in space.

Some mid- to small-sized businesses will not bounce back quickly. Small manufacturers, with older equipment, may not necessarily choose to come up with the capital to rebuild. There will be strong construction but I don't think we will see the same thing as we do after other hurricanes.

Similarly, we see immense potential for the small and medium enterprise sector in both countries to collaborate and complement their strengths for designing and manufacturing products that can be marketed across the world at a competitive price.

Similarly, if the summit outcome doesn't include the need to control small arms, which are the real weapons of destruction, and does not include the need for all developed nations to spend 0.7 percent of gross national income (GNI) in overseas aid, this historic chance for reform will result in failure,

Silicon Valley is a hotbed of innovation in wireless technologies. Establishing a ubiquitous network will enable the deployment of a new generation of broadband services for our entire community, including small businesses, schools, non-profits, and all the citizens of our region.

Shoreline habitat is our biggest issue. We see very few small fish in highly developed areas.

Shooting Hulk was very small scale for me because I wasn't involved in the CGI stuff.

She has the personality and physical makeup for Broadway. In ballet, there are standards that must be met if you want a career in it. You should be small boned and have a 180 degree rotation in your hips.

She has proposed a number of items that have been at the top of our advocacy agenda for years. In particular, we are thrilled by her proposal to create a small new Office on Hunger and Nutrition that will break through bureaucratic hurdles to better coordinate food programs across City agency lines.

She has placed herself in the house on several occasions. Being in a small home were methamphetamines are being made she was fully aware and was participating.

She handled small matters. Somebody needed a divorce, somebody needed an adoption.

She had followed me out to Hollywood from St. Paul. I was living in a boarding house, and she had a small apartment across the street. She supported me pretty much for about a year while I tried to get work. Her parents had said that we could marry once I had a job and good prospects, and the seven-year contract qualified.

She gave him what money she had, in a small bag that she kept it in. She said not to hurt them, to leave them alone.

She felt again that small shiver that occurred to her when events hinted at a destiny being played out, of unseen forces intervening.

Since we settled this case some time ago we were not in the court to rebut the case. A small proportion of responsibility was attributed to this product.

Since the show was done in small bits and pieces, we seldom taped anything more than a couple of minutes so generally you could learn your lines.

Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered conceptions of the place of race in the nation's history.

Sit down and make a list of all the things that you would like in a dog and, by all means, investigate the breed type. You don't want a border collie if you lead a sedentary lifestyle. Next, assess your lifestyle: Do you have small children? Are you able to devote time to play with and train an animal? What is the size of your home or yard?

Singapore is a serious world financial center and serious financial crimes have to be dealt with appropriately. Many investors, including small investors, have lost significant amounts of money.

Since it's a very small car, I don't have much office space.

Since November, the U.A.W. and a relatively small number of graduate assistants have sought to disrupt our students' educational experience. Fortunately, this effort has failed.

She is the best to ever walk the halls or ever will as far as stats go. I find it hard to fathom all that she did. It is like a dream world. For her to be placed on some of the state and national records is remarkable for a girl from a small school.

She helped me keep things in perspective - on a more even keel, ... She made me understand that basketball was a small part of what we have going.

Most players were claimed on waivers, so there was a very small pool of players available,

Most trials have a clear outcome, guilty or innocent, so the chances of this happening are pretty small to begin with.

Most small streams and creeks will be close to bank full and anybody living near small streams and creeks should be especially watchful for rising waters.

Most small poultry owners start their business by selling off land and jewelry. And when they can't recover their costs, they are left with no choice.

Most small business owners don't think they're getting a fair shake,

Most of the small providers don't have the marketing dollars to get their Web site out there at the level that the destination does. So they rely on the destination to drive traffic to their site.

Most of this country's wealth is in real estate and small business ownership. And investors over 40 are clamoring for the tax-deferred or tax-free benefits of holding their tangible assets in IRA accounts.

Most of the victims were local labourers, including women workers with infants and small children.

Most people listen to a small radio on their desk or in their car. They're not really listening for super quality sound.

Momentum continues to grow in Congress to pass legislation to protect homes, small businesses, and other private property against unreasonable government use of the power of eminent domain,

Momentum changes at the worst possible times to be honest. We'd make small runs, but couldn't put a big run together. We'd chip away but each time they'd answer.

Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts

Modern intensive farmland is a biological desert. Whereas if you tried to design a small nature reserve, you couldn't do better than the average garden - it's got all the required elements.