4,467 Quotes About Littles


  • Author George Steiner
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    Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

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  • Author Georges Simenon
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    I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink.

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  • Author Gertrude Stein
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    A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

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  • Author Gertrude Stein
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    A FEATHER. A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.

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  • Author Gertrude Stein
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    Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.

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  • Author Gloria Steinem
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    Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

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  • Author Gloria Swanson
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    Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.

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  • Author Gloria Steinem
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    In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be used as a form of aggression. ... But until we finally untangle sexuality and aggression, there will be more pornography and less erotica. There will be little murders in our beds - and very little love.

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