Top 31 Small Quantities Quotes
#1. I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.
Billy Joel
#2. Hold on to the ones you love,' Grandpa Joe told him now. 'Hold on to them tightly and tell them that you love them at every opportunity because you just don't know when you'll be parted from them.
Victoria Connelly
#3. There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.
Susan Mitchell
#4. Remember," Duncan asked on the plane, "how Walt asked if it was green or brown?"
Both Garp and Duncan laughed. But it was neither green nor brown, Garp thought. It was me. It was Helen. It was the color of bad weather. It was the size of an automobile.
John Irving
#5. I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.
Gore Vidal
#6. The well-meaning people who talk of education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never exhibit any understanding of the truth that you cannot teach anybody anything that he does not want to learn.
George Sampson
#8. But I love fish, cheese and meat, and I eat everything, but only in small quantities if it's rich.
Eva Herzigova
#9. Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense.
Lewis Thomas
#10. Her advice is much like pepper, I think ... excellent in small quantities but rather scorching in her doses.
L.M. Montgomery
#11. Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.
Sigmund Freud
#12. Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made.
John Hanning Speke
#13. It would have been nice to have had unicorns.
Tom Stoppard
#14. Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.
Arthur Frederick Saunders
#15. I like big drinks that aren't afraid of the alcohol in them. Not big in size, but in flavor, and the way I can allow myself to enjoy them is by making them in very small quantities. I make tiny glasses of very big drinks.
Rachel Maddow
#16. Good wines are produced in small quantities. It is a matter of time and attention and picking only the best grapes. Today they get as much as they can out of the ground, and what can you expect? The wine has no taste.
John Hillaby
#17. Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#18. Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but don't rise to the level of nuclear.
Nelson DeMille
#19. If your
hands are tied towards
anyone who's in need of
a helping hand, let your
tangue also be tied
Nathanael Kanyinga
#21. I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most people only make me nervous - that only by accident, and in extremely small quantities, would I ever be likely to come across people who wouldn't.
H.P. Lovecraft
#22. I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.
Sydney Brenner
#23. I hate to tell you this, but it's not my birthday. Do I still get the present? ~ Michael McCade
Samanthe Beck
#24. Most of the designers are eco-friendly, even by default, through their use of up-cycled materials and organic fabrics, and by producing in small quantities. Ultimately, the design has to be great - no one will buy it if it looks like a hemp sack!
Amber Valletta
#26. And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities ... ?
George Berkeley
#27. Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
Walter Savage Landor
#28. Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#29. You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
George Takei
#30. Here's what I think: the only reason I'm not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.
R.J. Palacio
#31. Normal is boring. Weird is better. Goats are awesome, but only in small quantities.
Jenny Lawson
