"I am a little world made cunningly."
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"A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody."
"I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe."
"All you gotta do honey is kinda stand in one spot, wiggle around just a little bit."
"Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way."
"Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud."
"Be of love a little more careful than of anything."
"It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice."
"He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God."
"Jodie Foster did it, Natalie Portman did it. I think it's entirely possible to juggle university with filming... I actually think going to university will make me a better actress. The experience of living like that, working to deadlines, living with other students. It's all the things I want. There are actresses who don't know about things like doing their own laundry and getting a bus. I'm not going to be like that. For me, this is just the beginning. I've only shown a little bit of what I can do. There is so much more to come."
"Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe."
"One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on, is the shifting meaning of many of the symbols used in mathematical notation. First, the symbols of operation are frequently also the symbols of the results of operations."
"I listen to him [Chief Keef] the most. I like his older mixtapes a little better though, because old Chief Keef scared me - I thought he was about to pop up out of nowhere with a hoodie on and shoot me."
"What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant."
"The leader is the person who brings a little magic to the moment."
"Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person."
"Whoever makes you smarter a little earlier in life makes you better"
"We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities."
"I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman."
"Little things console us because little things afflict us."