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"Coming up as an MC, I took the frustrations of the underground and brought it with me into the mainstream. I know there was a certain complex I had in the beginning that was just a little paranoid or a little...sensitive."
"Scatterbrain is one of those harmless little words you use a million times... Then it turns up in a crime scene description."
"Great talkers are little doers."
"We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation."
"The point here is ... to be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded."
"I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade."
"What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work."
"Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die."
"[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers."
"Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves"
"Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie. "You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly reminded him. "Who he had the good sense to kill off in the second act," snapped Sir Godfrey."
"Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you."
"When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more."
"A little (one) can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement gets clouded. —Abbot Saxtus"
"It takes a little time sometimes To get your feet back on the ground."
"I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find."
"If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little."
"When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth."
"Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be better than the last. For me, success is about this, seeing the slow progress in my work."
"I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything."
