Small Potatoes Quotes

#1. Marry me, princess. I'll give you my kingdom - small potatoes that it is.

Cindy Gerard

#2. I try not to think about what people think of me. You can't, because then you get hung up in all the people who love you, and you've also got all the people who hate you, because of what you're doing.

Eve Ensler

#3. I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometimes finds itself into the work.

Keith Carter

#4. Talk about solid turds all you want. The molecular integrity of shit is small potatoes.

David Foster Wallace

#5. Oh, am I wearing an ascot? I didn't notice.

Aziz Ansari

#6. Because getting a headset sweaty was kind of small potatoes compared to the fact that I was brandishing a machete at large raptors, while considering the pros and cons of hiring a pimp to dig up our dead dog.

Jenny Lawson

#7. Kids in aprons appeared, putting tureens of vegetable soup on the tables and plates of boiled eggs, potatoes and lentils, bowls of endive-and-radish salad, small rounds of cheese and loaves of brown bread, all looking quite delicious, in Zoe's opinion.

Christine Brodien-Jones

#8. Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.

Billy Sunday

#9. seemed like small potatoes.

Lemony Snicket

#10. Adam's eyes narrowed. I've looked you up. You're small potatoes, Snowflake.

Ilona Andrews

#11. It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.

Rachel Maddow

#12. By now she has learned that her husband likes his food on the salty side, that his favorite thing about lamb curry is the potatoes, and that he likes to finish his dinner with a small final helping of rice and dal.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#13. I always tell people that they are really the critics. If people come three times a week to your restaurant they are the ones who find something they really love.

Wolfgang Puck

#14. Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.

Teju Cole

#15. When we aren't alert, we miss opportunities to improve ourselves. We should always watch for circumstances or situations that can help or harm us and be eager to learn from these encounters.

John Wooden

#16. If shoppers looked at crooked carrots, misshapen potatoes, slightly dinged apples or too-small peaches and thought, wow, that looks delicious, imagine the benefits for struggling farmers.

Dana Cowin

#17. I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is.

Wladimir Klitschko

#18. What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

Charles Dudley Warner

#19. Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.

Joe Conason