#mall

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#banker #became #california #father #happened

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop. ↗

— David F. Houston

#any #barley #crop #feed #grain

I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#confusions #doing #down #fiction #how

Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries. ↗

— Helen Clark

#country #course #necessarily #negotiating #other

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#against #earth #easy #extreme #forms

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. ↗

— Henry Clay

#character #courtesies #deepest #grateful #heart

HBO has 28 million subscribers, small stuff compared to TBS, which can be seen in 88 million homes. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#hbo #homes #million #seen #small

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#carry #case #furthermore #small #snake

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#athletes #beaten #been #could #different

I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding. ↗

— John Cleese

#always #america #because #chances #else