All Quotes

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
‐‐ Calvin Coolidge

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.
‐‐ John McCarthy

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.
‐‐ Richie Benaud

The slow pace of trains in the U.S. can be maddening, particularly during delays on rail sidings for an hour or more to enable freight trains - which have the right-of-way - to pass.
‐‐ Alan Huffman

The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
‐‐ Carl Honore

The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?
‐‐ Joseph Murray

The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and irritability; work with the body, fatigue - and peace of mind.
‐‐ Henry Williamson

The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies.
‐‐ Florentijn Hofman

The slum is the measure of civilization.
‐‐ Jacob Riis

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.
‐‐ Vikas Swarup

The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.
‐‐ Fred Tomaselli

The Small Business Administration was fundamental in helping our company. There's great initiative from the government if you know the right places to look.
‐‐ Kevin Plank

The Small Business 'common app' would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously. It would ensure that small businesses across the country can concentrate on growing and creating jobs - not wasting time, filling out mountains of repetitive paperwork.
‐‐ Kay Hagan

The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund.
‐‐ Ed Royce

The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.
‐‐ Adam Osborne

The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies.
‐‐ Greg Ginn

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
‐‐ Christian Nestell Bovee

The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park.' Then the Faces just had 'Stay with Me.' So both bands could be considered one-hit wonders in America, even though we had several huge hits in England.
‐‐ Ian McLagan

The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when you take Steve Marriott out, it's a very different band.
‐‐ Ian McLagan

The small family farm is dying; people's lives are being dislocated.
‐‐ Bobbie Ann Mason

The small-market teams should know I've always been with them.
‐‐ Jerry Reinsdorf

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

The small Satan left and the great Satan came.
‐‐ Muqtada al Sadr

The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.
‐‐ Patrick Nielsen Hayden

The smaller a group, the easier it is for more people to argue and enter into discussions. The U.S. is vast. It's too large. The intellectuals hide out in enclaves, in big cities or universities, like a bunch of chickens hiding from a fox.
‐‐ Elfriede Jelinek

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

The smaller the function, the greater the management.
‐‐ C. Northcote Parkinson

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.
‐‐ Austin O'Malley

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
‐‐ Aesop

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.
‐‐ Isaac Newton

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.
‐‐ Roger Nash Baldwin

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
‐‐ John Burroughs

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
‐‐ Leonardo da Vinci

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
‐‐ Ayn Rand

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.
‐‐ Charles Simmons

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.
‐‐ Ingmar Bergman

The smart phone isn't a perfect device, as we all know. It forces the world into a tiny screen. It runs out of battery, bandwidth, and power. It distracts us from the world around us.
‐‐ John Battelle

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
‐‐ Brian Eno

The smart way to build a literary career is you create an identifiable product, then reliably produce that product so people know what they are going to get. That's the smart way to build a career, but not the fun way. Maybe you can think about being less successful and happier. That's an option, too.
‐‐ Karen Joy Fowler

The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It's to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won't deliver it.
‐‐ Tony Abbott

The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.
‐‐ Tommy Chong

The smartest people I know have that extra edge. The risk is always there that you'll look terribly undignified and slobbering, and inside I cringe about that, but I should be more aggressive.
‐‐ Embeth Davidtz

The smartest thing a director can do is surround himself with really good people.
‐‐ Scott Ellis

The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.
‐‐ Ben Fountain

The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.
‐‐ Catherine Zeta-Jones

The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
‐‐ Kate Klise

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.
‐‐ Bill Richardson