Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Bob Harper

It's the fact that no matter how bad it's gotten, the body wants to be healthy. The body wants to bounce back. When you do these changes, you do these small changes every single day, and you trust the process of what you're doing. You really do make lasting changes onto your body.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Glenn Turner

As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.

George Meredith

Speech is the small change of silence.

John Irving

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

Malcolm Gladwell

The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the epidemic spread of shared ideals needs to be particularly cognizant of the perils of the bigness. Crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference.

Robert A. Heinlein

Small change can often be found under seat cushions.

Tom Perrotta

I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.

Tim Loomis

We wanted to wait until the second half to do what we needed to do to stop him.

Josh Beckett

We've still got little more than half a month to go, probably three-quarters of a month actually. We've got to keep winning. This thing ain't over yet.

Charles Stross

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

Jason Hafner

When you get to state, half of the kids will swim slower than they did at districts, half are going to go faster. It doesn't mean a whole lot what you see on paper.

Bruce Morrow

We used to turn up on the day of the match, meet for half an hour and then go and play,

Tom Hopper

London's so busy, London's manic half the time.

David R. Brower

There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.

Eugene Fama

People are always saying that prices are too high. When they turn out to be right, we anoint them. When they turn out to be wrong, we ignore them. They are typically right and wrong about half the time.

Jane Austen

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

Hillary Clinton

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

Marianne Moore

Revision is its own reward.

May Sarton

Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation

Katherine Paterson

I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

Sung Sohn

I'm not sure we will see a big revision in February; I won't be surprised if we do not.

Jonathan Franzen

The writer’s life is a life of revisions.

Laurent Fabius

This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.

Terry Tempest Williams

Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me.

Robin Ince

My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.