#mall

Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#books #could #defensive #enough #essentially

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. ↗

— Mark Twain

#been #kind #large #made #many

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#difficult things #easy #great #great things #origin

At the beginning of this album I discovered the computer and had great fun playing with the thing. And I realized that, not being a good keyboard player, I could write things in very small sections, give them a certain feel and mess about with bends on the keyboard. ↗

— Midge Ure

#album #beginning #being #bends #certain

So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords everywhere. All of the songs are built up of small melodies and counter melodies all played very rhythmically. ↗

— Midge Ure

#built #chords #concentrated #counter #everywhere

We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small. ↗

— Ann Veneman

#assessments #cases #country #did #even

Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#anything #bother #children #discussing #rarely

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs. ↗

— Henry Villard

#body #broad #chest #disproportion #douglas

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#canvas #great #paint #picture #small

People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#care #community #disrupt #fundamentally #minority