“There are still countries where women don't enjoy basic rights like the vote or the freedom to study or the freedom of choice in marriage. Every year there are twenty million little girls in Africa who are deprived of their sexuality through brutal genital operations. Basically, there's still much to be done.” YearsLittlesStillsCountryDoneChoicesGirlEnjoyMillionsStudyRightsVoteTwentiesSexualityOperationsBrutalDeprivedFreedom Of ChoiceBasic Rights Author:Dacia Maraini
“Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white. We're always subject to what I call the compression industry, which is an attempt to compress a million shades of grey with a little bit of black and white to just a hundred, or to ten, or to one!” LittlesLife IsBitsBlackWhiteMillionsSubjectsIndustryTenLittle BitHundredTinyShadeBlack And WhiteGreyShades Of GreyCompression Author:Bill Henson
“Farrakhan got everybody together for the Million Man March and everything. But Farrakhan don't like the Jews. Which is bugged. I get my hair cut on Dekalb Avenue. I never been in a barbershop and heard a bunch of brothers talking about Jews. Black people don't hate Jews. Black people hate white people! We don't got time to dice white people up into little groups. I hate everybody! I don't care if you just got here. "Hey, I'm Romanian." "You Romanian cracker!"” PeopleIfsMenLittlesCareFunnyTogetherHateBlackWhiteTalkingMillionsComedyCuttingHeardGroupsBrotherHairI HateJewDon't CareBunchHeyI Don't CareMarchBlack PeopleAvenuesDiceDon't HateCrackersHair CutBarbershop Author:Chris Rock
“If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. A woman deciding which man she'll spend her life with? I've read that story a million times, but a stepmother deciding which of her children she'll save in a freak accident? Now that's a challenge.” IfsMenWritingChildrenLittlesBookStoriesChallengesSituationMillionsSatisfactionAccidentsFamiliarFreakPredictableStorylineStepmothers Author:Jillian Medoff
“There's a million more pros than cons, for sure. Obviously, the privacy thing is a little different. It's not normal to wake up and have 12 paparazzi cars waiting outside to follow you to Starbucks in the morning. But, there's a lot more pros, and I'm willing to put up with those cons, for sure.” LittlesDifferentWaitingMorningMillionsCarWillingNormalWake UpPrivacyPaparazziStarbucks Author:Taylor Lautner
“When I walk into a market I may see a different cut of meat or an unusual vegetable and think, ‘I wonder how it would be if I took the recipe for that sauce I had in Provence and put the two together?’ So I go home and try it out. Sometimes my idea is a success and sometimes it is a flop, but that is how recipes are born. There really are not recipes, only millions of variations sparked by someone’s imagination and desire to be a little creative and different. American cooking is built, after all, on variations of old recipes from around the world.” IfsThinkingWorldTryingMayLittlesTwoIdeasDifferentSometimesHomeWould BeTogetherDesireBornImaginationWalksWonderMillionsCreativeCuttingBuiltCookingAround The WorldMeatUnusualVegetablesRecipesVariationSauceProvence Author:James Beard
“I build a book the way coral reefs are built: millions of little calcareous skeletons piling up one atop another, though in my case the skeletons are drafts.” WayLittlesBookMillionsCasesBuiltSkeletonsReefsCoral Reefs Author:Dean Koontz
“There's something I really like about network TV. You have this humongous audience, tens of millions of people, and you really can be in a little hut in Thailand; you really can be in the middle of an apartment in Dubai. There's something about public entertainment that I always liked. I like smaller movies, and I like public entertainment.” PeopleLittlesMillionsAudienceMiddleTvsEntertainmentApartmentHutsThailandDubai Author:Patricia Arquette
“The Centers for Disease Control says that there are 76 million cases of food poisoning in the United States every year, 350,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths. Is that a lot or a little? Well, it depends on how you look at it.” YearsWellsLooksLittlesStatesUnitedMillionsCasesUnited StatesDependsDiseasePoisoningFood Poisoning Author:Marion Nestle
“Back when I had a little, I thought that I needed a lot. A little was overrated, but a lot was a little too complicated. See, zero didn't satisfy me. A million didn't make me happy. That's when I learned a lesson that it's all about your perception....THERE'S HOPE. It doesn't cost a thing to smile. You don't have to pay to laugh. Better thank God for that.” LittlesPayMillionsLaughingNeededLessonsCostPerceptionComplicatedZeroThank GodMake Me HappyBack WhenOverrated Author:India.Arie
“Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of the great state of Louisiana where people play the political game the same way it's played in Lebanon. The place is one layer after another of tribes, factions and at least a million laughs.” PeopleWayLittlesStillsStatesPlayHappensPoliticalGamesForgetMillionsLaughingCookingZoneCombatLayersTribesNew OrleansFactionsLouisianaLebanonFrench CookingPolitical Games Author:A. J. Liebling
“I don't mind if people don't like me. Well, I might a little ... but I really mind it when somebody uses their position at Time magazine to tell 10 million people they don't like me. I know what it's like to have your private life painted in the worst possible light in front of a lot of people.” PeopleIfsKnowsMindWellsLittlesUseLightMightMillionsWorstFrontsPositionLike MeMagazinesPrivate LifeDon't Like MeTime MagazinePain In Life Author:Steve Jobs
“I'm kind of proud of that little record! I mean I've heard about a million other records that have come out since then by all these groups around here and there and I really like 'Little Johnny Jewel'.” KindMeanLittlesMillionsRecordsHeardGroupsProudJewelsHere And There Author:Tom Verlaine
“I was at a restaurant and I heard this little voice at a nearby table pipe up and say, 'I believe I will have the chowder.' I got up and walked out into the middle of the restaurant. There was Sterling Holloway just sitting there being Sterling Holloway. Never in a million years would I have imagined that I'd have the honor of filling his shoes. I just regret not going up to him and saying hello.” YearsBelieveLittlesI BelieveVoiceMillionsHeardMiddleRegretHonorSittingTablesShoesRestaurantsHelloFillingPipeSterlingSaying Hello Author:Jim Cummings
“There is very little that our government or any government can do to plant the seeds of international understanding in the hearts and minds of people around the world. If people by the millions can reach out their hands in friendship and communicate directly warmth, personal interest and respect, it will be a real beginning in the struggle for a peaceful world.” PeopleIfsWorldMindHeartLittlesRealHandsGovernmentUnderstandingInterestCan DoMillionsStrugglePlantInternationalCommunicateSeedsPeacefulAround The WorldWarmthReach OutHeart And MindPeaceful WorldPersonal Interest Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932 ... and 50 million people died as a result ... what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in fact, very important.” PeopleLittlesImportantFactsKidsPoliticalGuyResultsMillionsPoliticianDiedElectionI've LearnedNaziLittle Kid Author:Bernie Sanders
“During the last two years the wealthiest 14 Americans saw their wealth increase by $157 billion. This is truly unbelievable. This $157 billion INCREASE in wealth among 14 individuals is more wealth that is owned, collectively, by 130 million Americans. This country does not survive morally, economically or politically when so few have so much, and so many have so little.” YearsLittlesDoeTwoCountryLastsIndividualWealthMillionsSawsIncreaseBillionsTwo YearsUnbelievable Author:Bernie Sanders
“God forbid that Americans earning, say, more than $1 million a year be asked to pony up a little more in taxes to support a larger military at a time when, we are told over and over, the country is in the middle of a war on terror. Millionaires can't be asked to sacrifice even just a little bit. No, they deserve to have their taxes cut while others fight and die.” YearsLittlesWarCountryDiesFightingBitsMillionsSupportCuttingSacrificeMiddleMilitaryTaxesLittle BitDeserveTerrorEarningMillionaireWar On TerrorTax CutsPonies Author:E. J. Dionne
“Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art." That's okay.” LittlesArtMillionsFineOkayPaintBrushesDotsMonetPollockKandinsky Author:Patrick Wilson
“What's fascinating . . .is that you could now have a business that might have been selling for $10 billion where the business itself could probably not have borrowed even $100 million. But the owners of that business, because its public, could borrow many billions of dollars on their little pieces of paper- because they had these market valuations. But as a private business, the company itself couldn't borrow even 1/20th of what the individuals could borrow.” LittlesHas BeensMightIndividualCompanyMillionsPiecesPaperDollarsBillionsSellingFascinatingOwnersMight Have BeenBorrowedValuation Author:Charlie Munger
“I'm here to change things so that little girls have someone to look up to. I'm here to fight the eating-disorder battle that millions of people are having and I'm standing up and saying that's not okay. Frankly, I can't fail. I will not fail.” PeopleLooksLittlesI CanGirlFightingMillionsFailingBattleEatingStandingOkayLook UpDisorderEating DisorderNot Okay Author:Whitney Thompson
“I had a very down-to-earth product, my wrap dress, which was really a uniform. It was just a simple little cotton-jersey dress that everybody loved and everybody wore. That one dress sold about 3 or 4 million. I would see 20, 30 dresses walking down one block. All sorts of different women. It felt very good. Young and old, and fat and thin, and poor and rich.” LittlesDifferentEarthYoungFeltSimplePoorMillionsRichProductsWalkingDressesVery GoodFatsBlockUniformsWrapsJerseyCottonDown To EarthYoung And Old Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“There are a million little things, but one of the best ways to get to know characters is to just put them in situations and see what they say.” KnowsWayLittlesCharacterSituationMillionsBest WayLittle Things Author:Greta Gerwig
“If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.” IfsThinkingWantLittlesFightingMillionsChineseShirtsTrailsSleevesSaigon Author:Lyndon B. Johnson