Ten Littles Quotes & Sayings

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white. We're always subject to what I call the compression industry, which is an attempt to compress a million shades of grey with a little bit of black and white to just a hundred, or to ten, or to one! — Bill Henson

Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before. — Pico Iyer

Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves. — Melody Beattie

Most of the nicer guys have girlfriends, and we know this because they make it clear the moment we're introduced, as if to say, "Don't think about it." Those particular guys have absolutely no idea what to do with girls who aren't girlfriends, so at the moment they're at a bit of a dead loss in the friendship department. — Melina Marchetta

The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned. — Roy Hattersley

I spot a little stranger standing across the room, my brain takes a vacation just to give my heart more room. — Bruce Springsteen

I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years. — Bill Gates

He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind, and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind. — Mary Shelley

I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little. — Candice Bergen

Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. — Corey Ford

No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me. — Jean-Louis Trintignant

The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life. — John Donne

The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another. — Pliny The Elder

Ten Little Indians once again shows [Alexie] to be not just one of the West's best, but one of the most brilliantly literate American writers, even funnier than Louise Erdrich, even more primal than Jim Harrison, and even more eloquent than Annie Proulx. — Ron Franscell

Once she was gone, every memory was suddenly precious, even the bad ones, even the times I was irritated with her, or she was irritated with me. Then it seemed a luxury to be irritated. — Lydia Davis

People expect too much of one year and too little of ten. — George Bernard Shaw

Chirrut shrugged mildly. "The Force did protect me." "I protected you," his partner replied. — Alexander Freed

I hear voices in my mind and you're worried that you're the freak, he laughed. — Stephenie Meyer

The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives. — Erving Goffman

I fidget and change my outfit a lot. It's really a way of keeping myself comfortable. — Jenny Slate

If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who has much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, which might otherwise, like a high-mettled charger, toss him to the ground. — Christian Scriver