I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies.
When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small to detect with ordinary human senses.
Texas was mostly short-grass and tall-grass prairie when modern Europeans arrived here. It really was a land of milk and honey. But when they brought all these cattle onto these relatively small bits of land, and the cattle were allowed to graze freely, they essentially destroyed the prairie.
We grow small trying to be great.
Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances.
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.
I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small.
The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.
At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.
Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.
Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.
I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.
