#try

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#going #impact #mosquito #small #think

Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor. ↗

— Christopher Caudwell

#art #beauty #economics #poetry #truth

If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#comparison #country #few #financed #holland

If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#country #course #does #environment #get

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it. ↗

— Will Rogers

#country #government #our #run #spite

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less. ↗

— Joel Rosenberg

#little #much #really #something #too

To whom shall I offer this book, young and sprightly, Neat, polished, wide-margined, and finished politely? To you, my Cornelius, whose learning pedantic, Has dared to set forth in three volumes gigantic The history of ages—ye gods, what a labor!— And still to enjoy the small wit of a neighbor. A man who can be light and learned at once, sir, By life's subtle logic is far from a dunce, sir. So take my small book—if it meet with your favor. The passing of years cannot dull its sweet savor. ↗

— Catullus

#poetry #age

I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar. ↗

— Mick Ronson

#always #guitar #i #make #playing

I have observed private and proprietary colleges, like the University of Phoenix, and the market they serve. And I found it intriguing the way in which they are trying to deliver the product, with more accountability, for a price. ↗

— Roy Romer

#colleges #deliver #found #i #intriguing

People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent. ↗

— Cesar Romero

#composed #fact #got #half #him