4,467 Quotes About Littles

Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.

Most people like a little sex in their novels.

As a screenwriter I'm often writing in genres where there have been thousands of movies; whereas when I direct movies they tend to be in between genres. They tend to have a little bit of a genre to them, but they're really about the people, and they're people we haven't met before.

Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.

The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.

A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.

You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.

A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.

Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.