When I started to paint, I painted children because I just felt that I wanted to take their side. What always upset me was how children are getting abused simply because they are physically weaker and not capable of defending themselves - how they get raped, enslaved and killed. I never understood why some people seemed to have fun causing pain to someone smaller.
If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form.
For a small open economy such as Cyprus, the euro adoption provides protection against international financial turmoil, which often has a disproportionate effect on smaller economies.
To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.
You come from the city and think small means simple when all it realy means is complicated in a smaller place. Which sometimes adds to the complication.
A problem that I have with everything fictional is that writers are always having to come up with sudden artillery explosions in the middle of whatever is going on. The characters are having interesting, subtle interactions, or jealousies, or whatever it is, and suddenly some gigantic angry eruption has to happen, a giant gasp where everyone has to scramble around. That's the point where I'm turned off. I want the dynamic range to be a little smaller. I don't like the big false bangs.
I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is.
The devil makes small sins seem smaller in our eyes, for otherwise he can't lead us to greater evil.
I don't know that I necessarily feel more comfortable in the context of smaller films, but I tend to feel more comfortable more often than not with the material of smaller films,.
Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems.
As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference.
There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller.
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
The truth is that only 1% of all new words are totally new, and of those an even smaller percentage are conjured up out of thin air. The vast majority of coinages are the product of some kind of repurposing, and the result has always been a mix of tradition and innovation.
Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?
CAFE is like trying to cure obesity by requiring clothing manufacturers to make smaller sizes.
Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are the smaller ingredients: you always learn something, whether useful or harmful - that is difficult to analyze until later; you always give something; you alwayou always grow a little in one direction or another.