"A little bit of this town goes a very long way."
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"I'm pretty much the same person I was 20 years ago. My politics haven't changed. I have the same feeling of idealism. But I am a little bit wiser and more experienced."
"The thing about Alzheimer's is that it's... it's sort of like all these little, small deaths along the way, before they actually physically die."
"With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump."
"Our problem with desire is that we want too little."
"I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose."
"Elections are always a little bit funny. People start saying things and emphasizing differences. After the election, my hope is, is that people start emphasizing what we have in common."
"What did i know of your fantasies? Why do we know so little about the fantasies of our parents? What do we know of somebody if we know nothing of the images passed to him by his imagination?"
"When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that."
"Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower."
"After all those years of automatic success, you don't get nervous any more. It's really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try."
"As you know, this little grain of sand has mass. A very small mass, but mass nonetheless." And because this grain of sand has mass, it therefore exerts gravity. Again, too small to feel, but there." Now," Katherine said, "if we take trilions of these sand grains and let them attract one another to form... say, the moon, then their combined gravtiy is enough to move entire ocreans and drag the tides back and forth across our planet."
"I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me."
"A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world."
"Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up."
"And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight."
"Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces."
"He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much."
"I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless."
"Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle."