Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Wise Brown

I won't let anybody get away with anything just because he is little.

Lisa Kleypas

I thought I would spend the rest of my life searching for little reminders of you...

John Tyler

In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life.

John Updike

History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

John Selden

Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.

Little sins are pioneers of hell.

James Howe

And that's an even greater love: to love somebody when he's a little...worn at the edges. —Teddy Bear

James Joyce

Have read little and understood less.

Lamorne Morris

If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.

Lamar Odom

Lamar is just Lamar. My teammates probably can explain that a little better than I can. If I just go out there and do what I do and be myself, it shouldn't be a problem.

Kyle MacLachlan

Hamlet is a little daunting.

Liane Moriarty

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

Libba Bray

I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

Friedrich Schiller

He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.

Harvey Mackay

I'm a little shot that just kept on shooting.

Henry Rollins

This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.

Henry Rollins

When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp.

Henry A. Kissinger

Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." ... But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that.

Henry Blodget

I'm no expert in vibrators, but I was surprised to learn that one could fit in that little box.

Hector Elizondo

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

Henry David Thoreau

He who owns little is little owned.

Manfred von Richthofen

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

Mahatma Gandhi

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

John C. Maxwell

To Stay Focused in Life: You can't know everyone You can't do everything You can't go everywhere We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

Eric Hoffer

There is no alienation that a little power will not cure.

Enid Blyton

Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!

Enoch Powell

A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.

James Clavell

The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I'm superstitious a little bit.

George Farquhar

Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

Johnny Winter

Little Walter I would've liked to have played with

Lu Xun

When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them, you will suit each other very well.

John Connolly

I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo?