“The brain is really hard to see. The whole thing is very large - the human brain is several pounds in weight - but the connections between brain cells, known as synapses, are really tiny. They're nanoscale in dimension. So if you want to see how the cells of the brain are connected in networks, you have to see those connections, those synapses.” IfsWantHumansHardWholeBrainKnownConnectionsWeightConnectedTinyCellsDimensionsPoundsHuman BrainBrain CellsSynapses Author:Edward Boyden
“I spent my twenties not really participating in the work force in any real way. I acted a tiny bit, but that was just because it was the only way I knew how to make money, and I sublet my apartment and lived in the woods and just tried to figure out who I was and what I wanted, what my real desire was and not just what I was used to doing, and it was a really confusing and painful, but really rich and amazing time.” WayRealWantedUsedDesireForceBitsRichFiguresTwentiesPainfulWoodsTinyMaking MoneyApartmentConfusingParticipating Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“People are buying more vinyl now than they did in the late '90s or 2000s. I like having different mediums of the record. It's always interesting to see how the tapes end up looking because they are so tiny.” PeopleDifferentEndsInterestingRecordsLateTinyMediumsBuyingTapeVinyl Author:Angel Olsen
“I would frankly be shocked if Donald Trump even knows how to use chopsticks or is even able to manipulate them with those tiny little fingers.” IfsKnowsLittlesUseAbleKnow HowTrumpFingersTinyShockedManipulateChopsticks Author:Anthony Bourdain
“When you upload a picture of your delicious Caesar salad to Instagram, you don't realize that what you're doing is leaving a tiny little footprint that will be there forever. This seems to be a human impulse.” HumansLittlesSeemsRealizingForeverLeavingTinyImpulseDeliciousInstagramSaladFootprintCaesar Salad Author:Derek Waters
“While we've doubled renewable energy, it was only a tiny portion of the energy portfolio to start with. But what we did was totally take the lid off fossil fuel extractions in every way imaginable. On the day following [Barack] Obama's trip to the Louisiana floods, you know, we had, I think, another 25 million acres that went on sale in the Gulf for further extraction.” ThinkingKnowsWayEnergyMillionsFollowingTinyBarackFuelPortionsFloodFossilsFossil FuelRenewable EnergyLouisianaAcresPortfoliosExtraction Author:Jill Stein
“I had a dream about riding a black cat, and then the next day I was at this antique mart, and I found this little devil riding a black cat - an Austrian bronze, tiny little thing. It was super tiny. And it was kind of like, "Oh my God, my dream came true." Except it was a devil, of course. Not me.” KindLittlesDreamCoursesNextFoundBlackDevilCatTinyLittle ThingsRidingNext DayAntiquesI Had A DreamBronzeBlack CatDreams Came True Author:Cassandra Peterson
“Everyone had always told me I had to see alpine flowers, since I was writing about flowers, and I had never seen these. So I happened to be teaching a class at the University of Colorado, and I got to go for hikes that took me there. But my perspective was most often down at ground level, trying to see quite tiny exquisite flowers.” WritingTryingLevelsClassHappenedTeachingFlowerPerspectiveUniversityTinyExquisiteColoradoAlpine Author:Martha Ronk
“The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come and stand around it and warm their hands.” LittlesIdeasCharacterHandsNightDarkNovelFireWarmTinyDark Night Author:Stephen King
“As one does with a first child, I found out that my baby could roll by hearing the sound of her body hit the ground at 4 a.m. and obviously, for any new parent, that is the most horrifying thing that could happen, right? You're exhausted and you take your tiny little baby out and you put them on the bed to change diapers before nursing and you turn around and you discover... my baby can roll! And you think you're going to die.” ThinkingFirstsChildrenLittlesDoeBodyHappensDiesTurnsFoundParentSoundBabyBedHearingTinyExhaustedNursingMy BabyDiapersNew Parents Author:Uma Thurman
“Let's say you're someone's phone, and you notice that your owner is drinking coffee at certain times of the day, just very subtly indicating where the local coffee shop is which happens to have paid, you know, whoever makes your phone at the right moment. I think we're in a future where frankly we are possibly facing little tiny bits of manipulation in all of our waking hours, if we don't have that already.” IfsThinkingKnowsLittlesMomentsHappensCertainBitsHoursPaidDrinkingPhonesCoffeeTinyLocalsShopsOwnersManipulationWakingRight MomentCoffee ShopDrinking Coffee Author:Tim Wu
“Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely.” CultureAbuseExtremesTinyOfficersSmallestFractions Author:Rahm Emanuel
“I've seen Leonardo Da Vinci notebooks which are filled with tiny, messy scrawls written in mirror image across the page. I'd love to know how he kept all his projects going at once.” KnowsKnow HowWrittenProjectsPagesMirrorsFilledTinyMessyNotebookLeonardoMirror Image Author:William Gurstelle
“That shot in "Into the Inferno" somehow popped up while my editor and I were viewing the footage. I immediately said, "That looks like the opening shot because the camera approaches the action very slowly and we have enough time to insert some of the main credits into it." So it was a practical choice. At the same time, you see these tiny figures standing at the rim of something, and all of a sudden, the camera rises further and you find yourself looking straight down into an inferno.” LooksSaidEnoughActionChoicesFiguresApproachShotsStandingCamerasCreditTinyPracticalsOpeningFinding YourselfEditorsEnough TimeInfernoRimsInsert Author:Werner Herzog
“For one work we developed a human hair felt, which involved collecting and sorting hundreds of kilos of human hair, and then blending it will a tiny percentage of black merino followed by carding and felting.” HumansFeltBlackHairInvolvedTinyPercentagesCollectingSorting Author:Patricia Piccinini
“Little ideas can pop into one's head at any time, and if I'm being reasonably efficient I've got it close enough to hand, then I pop that little tiny moment of a few seconds down onto a tape and then I can forget about it for... years sometimes.” IfsYearsLittlesI CanIdeasSometimesEnoughMomentsHandsForgetPopsTinySecondsEfficientTape Author:David Gilmour
“I think the Trump thing is particularly egregious, and I think he's as much a product of the GOP lie machine in the era of Roger Ailes as he is of television. And also, of the Twitter era. Of the everything-is-as-reductive-as-it-can-be. To me, the most telling thing is we have a man who cannot complete a sentence. Certainly could never get to 140 characters, or past it. He thinks in tiny little bursts - the way he tweets.” ThinkingMenWayLittlesCharacterPastLyingTelevisionProductsTrumpMachinesSentencesTinyErasTweetRogerGop140 Character Author:Joss Whedon
“[Donald Trump] thinks in tiny little bursts - the way he tweets.” ThinkingWayLittlesTrumpTinyTweet Author:Joss Whedon
“I spent a year pulling all-nighters and driving around in a really tiny fuel-efficient car relying on the kindness of strangers and seeing this incredible range of landscapes throughout the United States. That's what happened with The Honesty Room. It was a huge night and day switch.” YearsStatesNightUnitedRoomsKindnessUnited StatesSeeingHappenedCarHonestyHugeIncrediblesStrangerTinyDrivingLandscapeRangeFuelEfficientPullingAll Nighters Author:Dar Williams
“I went to Canada and played in this tiny bar where the windows were steaming up and everybody was so animated and singing along right there at the foot of the stage, looking up, and I got my mojo back .” FeetStageSingingWindowTinyBarsCanadaAnimatedMojo Author:Dar Williams
“I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical. I wouldn't wear makeup, and I didn't like to let boys open the door for me because I felt like it was sexist. My heart was in the right place, but I was such a tiny dictator about it. It's embarrassing to me now because I was so rigid. It's such a rigid way of looking at the world. There's something very young about that mind-set.” WorldWayMindHeartBookYoungNamesFeltBoysDoorsMy HeartClothesTinyBrandsMakeupDictatorEmbarrassingRight PlaceSexistMind SetBrand Names Author:Zoe Kazan
“California is many things, and it is a harbinger of what this country will become if illegal immigration isn't stopped. You're gonna have a very rich, very powerful minority of elites - very, very tiny - and they're gonna live in a very few, small, gated enclaves.” IfsCountryPowerfulRichTinyImmigrationCaliforniaMinoritiesIllegalElitesVery PowerfulIllegal ImmigrationHarbinger Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a tiny and mild event compared to what had happened 74,000 years ago.” PeopleThinkingYearsStatesMovingUnitedUnited StatesHappenedEventsConsequenceYears AgoTiny Author:Werner Herzog
“From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.” YearsWealthHundredWestTinyAtmospherePortionsCarbonFilling Author:Bill McKibben
“A lot of liberals think all the Trump voters are a part of the alt right, neo Nazi camp, which is not true. That's a tiny, tiny slice.” ThinkingTrumpTinyVotersCampsNazi Author:Van Jones
“Have a kid. You obviously shouldn't have a baby just to get politically active, but I'm eight and a half months pregnant, and I swear, thinking about an actual very real future for a tiny person is a game changer.” ThinkingPersonsRealKidsGamesHalfBabyMonthsEightActiveTinyPregnantSwearGame Changers Author:Alison Pill
“I did have a tiny moment in a TV movie called My Sweet Charlie, starring Patty Duke.” MomentsSweetTvsTinyCharlieDukes Author:Brent Spiner
“For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are so beautiful and elegant and so apparently purposeful, they could only have been made by an intelligent designer. But [Charles] Darwin provided a simpler explanation. His way is a gradual, incremental improvement starting from very simple beginnings and working up step by tiny incremental step to more complexity, more elegance, more adaptive perfection.” WorldWayHas BeensMadeBeautifulSimplePowerfulExistenceStepsCenturyDesignArgumentPerfectionIntelligentStartingImprovementTinyExplanationDesignerComplexityMost PowerfulElegantEleganceLiving ThingsIntelligent DesignAdaptive Author:Richard Dawkins
“The other way is the multiverse way. That says that maybe the universe we are in is one of a very large number of universes. The vast majority will not contain life because they have the wrong gravitational constant or the wrong this constant or that constant. But as the number of universes climbs, the odds mount that a tiny minority of universes will have the right fine-tuning.” WayUniverseNumbersFineMajorityConstantTinyClimbsMinoritiesOddsLarge NumbersTuningMultiverseFine Tuning Author:Richard Dawkins
“The FCC extorts broadcasters by threatening to take away their licenses for infringements which are usually the result of complaints from an extreme, right wing, tiny bunch of individuals.” IndividualResultsWingsExtremesTinyBunchComplaintsThreateningLicenseRight WingBroadcastersFccInfringementLicenses Author:Frank Zappa
“You could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into the bigger issues the culture was facing. It struck me as a better way to learn about a place, or at least a different way, than just going to interview the president. So I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there. But I'm just amazed.” PeopleWayWritingDifferentStoriesCulturePresidentIssuesBiggerTinyDifferent WaysInterviewsVillageAmazedBetter WaysPrisms Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“I definitely look like a toddler. I feel comfortable and I have a lot of fun out there [John Mulaney Show]. And if I were to be extremely egotistical, I'd say I got a tiny bit better.” IfsFeelsLooksShowsFunBitsComfortableTinyEgotisticalToddler Author:John Mulaney
“I know that some of the folks in the press are uptight about this [moving the press corps out of the West Wing ], and I understand. What we're - the only thing that's been discussed is whether or not the initial press conferences are going to be in that small press - and for the people listening to this that don't know this, that the press room that people see on TV is very, very tiny. Forty-nine people fit in that press room.” PeopleKnowsMovingRoomsTvsListeningFitPressesWingsWestFolksTinyNineFortyConferencesInitialsPress ConferencesUptight Author:Reince Priebus
“The Earth is a tiny blue speck in a universe of unfriendly options.” EarthUniverseBlueTinySpecksUnfriendly Author:Sylvia Earle
“When I was 12, we moved from New Jersey to Florida. The Gulf of Mexico was literally my backyard. Every day, I could see the ocean. At low tide I went out and played in seagrass meadows that used to come right up to the shore, filled with tiny seahorses, pipefish and soft corals. There was so much life! But then I witnessed the change, the loss of the shoreline, the loss of the mangrove trees, the loss of the seagrass meadows. Shallow bay areas were turned into parking lots.” UsedLossTreeOceanLowsAreasMovedFilledTinyShoreMexicoTidesFloridaShallowJerseyMeadowsParkingNew JerseyBackyardsParking LotBay AreaGulf Of MexicoShoreline Author:Sylvia Earle
“I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads. This had a profound effect on my view of the world - vast, open-ended, full of opportunity, and ready for exploration.” WorldRunningOpportunityViewsTreeEffectsFieldsReadyRedTownsProfoundTrackTinyMilesExplorationDirtPatchesWheatRailroadsOklahomaRailroad TracksDirt Roads Author:Chelsea Manning
“The perfect recipe for a margarita is 2 ounces tequila, 2 ounces fresh lime juice, 1 ounce Cointreau, and a tiny splash of some kind of an agave or orange juice.” KindPerfectTinyOrangeRecipesJuiceLimesTequilaOrange JuiceMargarita Author:Mario Batali
“Technologies first equipped the territorial body with bridges, aqueducts, railways, highways, airports, etc. Now that the most powerful technologies are becoming tiny - microtechnologies, all technologies can invade the body. These micro-machines will feed the body. Research is being conducted in order to create additional memory for instance.” FirstsBodyOrderMemoriesPowerfulTechnologyBecomingResearchMachinesTinyInstanceBridgesEtcMost PowerfulHighwaysAirportsRailwayTerritorialAqueducts Author:Paul Virilio
“You die - and this is why manmade religions don't work for so many of us. The notion that you're dead and that's the end, and they even try to contain you in coffins. They make them out of steel and stuff. But really, your journey - for all you know - is just beginning. For all I know, what you see now is just a tiny little seed. So, I may blossom into an entire - I don't know - something in the sky. Who knows where we're going?” KnowsTryingMayLittlesEndsDiesStuffJourneySkyNotionSeedsTinySteelCoffins Author:Alice Walker
“I liked the idea of using this mega-star [Beyoncé ] to talk about all those things on the tiny scale of my life.” IdeasStarsTinyScalesMega Author:Morgan Parker
“I had a guy who went out of way to help me get started and somehow saw something in me. I couldn't get my hands on a real guitar till I was fourteen. I always wanted one from the time I was a tiny kid. Music was bigger than life to me.” WayRealHelpingHandsKidsWantedGuySawsBiggerGuitarTinyHelp MeFourteenBigger Than Life Author:Steve Young
“Because national borders are eroding, because of the growth of non-state actors. It's a different kind of a world. We are tied down by a tiny little country - Iraq. It's amazing, given the disparity in military economic strength. It's a world where most of the big problems spill over national boundaries, and there are new kinds of actors and we're feeling our way as to how to deal with them.” WorldWayKindLittlesDifferentCountryStatesFeelingsProblemBigsActorsGivenGrowthDealsEconomicMilitaryIraqTinyBoundariesBordersDifferent KindsTiedSpillsBig ProblemsDisparityNational Borders Author:Brent Scowcroft
“In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!” LooksBigsIssuesDetailsTinyDebateBig Picture Author:Vandana Shiva
“I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could change the world. And number two, we believed that another world was possible. And once that belief took hold of some critical mass, a tiny minority nonetheless, but a critical mass of people, then the world did change.” PeopleThinkingWorldTwoBeliefNumbersMassCriticalTinyTwo ThingsChanging The WorldMinoritiesSmarterAnother WorldVetsCritical Mass Author:Bill Ayers
“God made the forests, the tiny stars, and the wild winds-and I think that he made them partly as a balance for that kind of civilization that would choke the spirit of joy out of our hearts. He made the great open places for the people who want to be alone with him and talk to him, away from the crowds that kill all reverence. And I think that he is glad at times to have us forget our cares and responsibilities that we may be nearer him-as Jesus was when he crept away into the wilderness to pray.” PeopleThinkingWantHeartKindMayMadeCareJoySpiritJesusStarsForgetResponsibilityWindPrayingBalanceCivilizationCrowdsTinyGladForestsWildernessReverenceChokeWants To Be Alone Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
“150 years ago in [Charles] Dickens's time there was at least a sense of craft. So some of the things people had inside of them, they had the possibility of expressing in the making of things - even in a daily way with their clothes or their food. People made a good deal of both themselves. Now our daily lives are almost all consumption. Craft plays a tiny role.” PeopleWayYearsMadePlayDealsRolesPossibilityClothesYears AgoTinyCraftsDaily LifeConsumptionDickens Author:Zadie Smith
“You can feel small, insignificant and insubstantial, but knowing the universe is in your tiny body should be enough to make you happy.” FeelsShouldEnoughBodyUniverseKnowingTinyInsignificantMake You Happy Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds ahead, or two hundredths of a second, or two days. Napoleon on an eighteenth century battlefield had something more like a two-day advantage. Wayne Gretzky in a hockey game was probably a second ahead of everyone else on the ice.” PeopleTwoMightHappensGamesBitsCenturyAdvantageTinyIceHockeySecondsCompetitorsBattlefieldsAccuracyWayneTwo DaysGretzky Author:Kevin Maney
“Steve Bannon is clearly somebody who has studied not-normal politics and the Constitution and the Electoral College. He is somebody who has studied Hitler and Lenin and a lot of people who have seized power and unleashed blitzkriegs from above and created tiny cabals of power concentrated in a tiny group at the top. That's what authoritarians do. It's right out of the playbook.” PeopleGroupsCollegeNormalConstitutionTinyUnleashedElectoral CollegeCabalPlaybooks Author:Van Jones