31 Quotes About Small-numbers

  • Author Lynn Shelton
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    I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their lives for a period of time.

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  • Author Tom Stoppard
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    I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

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  • Author Ann Veneman
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    We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.

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  • Author Isabel Wilkerson
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    At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By the end of the Great Migration, nearly half of them were living outside the South in the great cities of the North and West. So when this migration began, you had a really small number of people who were living in the North and they were surviving as porters or domestics or preachers - some had risen to levels of professional jobs - but they were, in some ways, protected because they were so small.

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