Tiny Quotations | Page 5

In the U.S., with just a few transmitters at 1.4 GHz and tiny receiver antennas, coverage has to be a concern. And with digital TV, it either works or it doesn't.

In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of Georgia.

If you look at the map, there's Thrace, Greece, Bulgaria, and there's tiny Gallipoli. It is such a small part of the whole peninsula, and yet you only hear about this little tiny bit.

If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June - a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special: the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet.

If you have a long-term view of the market, this is one of the best buying opportunities we'll see for years to come, ... If you don't believe that, take a look at any stock market chart showing the past 60 years. Severe market retreats, which make everybody so anxious, look like tiny blips in an upward-spiraling market.

I'm not sure if it is realistic to believe that such a tiny portion of the area can have a major impact.

I'm dying to do a tiny indie and play something totally naturalistic without any sort of constraints on me. Something where I can shock everyone.

The attraction is that there must be interesting and possibly sad stories behind these place names, many of which were given by early European settlers. Unfortunately, a lot of the more unusual names were for places that are just too tiny to feature in the atlas.

The big bang would have created zillions of tiny dark energy stars out of the vacuum. Our universe is pervaded by dark energy, with tiny dark energy stars peppered across it.

Not huffy or stuffy, nor tiny or tall, / But fluffy, just fluffy, with no brains at all.

Every tiny step forward in the world was formerly made at the cost of mental and physical torture.

Expand yourselves; do not contract into your own tiny individuality.

That's an exciting bird to find because they're so tiny and out on the sand where they're hard to find.

It's impressive how such a tiny creature in sheer numbers can drive you insane.

The vast majority of Americans pay their taxes even though a small, tiny fraction of them will ever get audited. That's because the punishment for not paying your taxes is jail.

I now remember the prison cell as being tiny and cold instead of a window of opportunity and a source of pride as I once did. All I can do now is stand-by and watch the vultures, ravens, crows and magpies pick the bones of a once magnificent country clean.

In the back of our minds, we know we have to give them one tiny bit of hope.

In the back of our minds, we know we have to give them one tiny bit of hope. We have complete faith in what we are doing because every time we go out there, it is our job to give them hope that every day will be a better day.

If their tail falls off -- it's only held on by a tiny muscle -- they can't turn over if upside down.

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

In the 1920s and 30s, when Radio Shack was young, a much earlier generation of nerds swarmed into these tiny shops to talk excitedly about building radios and other transmission devices. You might say that Radio Shack helped define gadget culture for four generations, from radio whizzes up to smartphone dorks.

In terms of threats we are in teeny tiny beginning. We are very cautious to make it into more than what it is. It's just starting to get to the radar.

I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.

If you watch a group of schoolchildren eating lunch together, you cannot help but notice how it is a comically Lilliputian version of the adult thing - the cocked eyebrows of conversation, the reaching for condiments, the shovelling of food into tiny mouths.

Buyers are taking a wait-and-see attitude. Interest rates crept up a tiny bit, but I haven?t heard much talk of a slow-down.

Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers.

It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.

I realised that even if my film worked for just 40 people in a tiny movie theatre, then it would find a home. It was an incredible relief.

Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

They've placed their own safety on the line to get in there and care for these animals. ... We're delighted that we can help them out in some tiny little way.

It's amazing to me that one of the world's most feared diseases would be carried by one of the world's smallest animals: the real tiny dog.

It was a cheap, nasty movie that was cranked out in three weeks on a tiny budget.

My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.

Don't bother her, don't try to talk to her, don't even look at her, or I'll fold you in half so many times you'll look like a tiny little origami werewolf.

Ashley and Tiny have competed against college divers and just missed qualifying for the U.S. Senior team, ... They are already close to being at a high level.

A great flaw in men is their inability to open wide their tiny eyes. And it shows!

The global nuclear reactor and fuel business, controlled by a tiny cartel of state-guided firms, is the most politically regulated commerce in the world, with no sanctity of contract.

The global warming impacts are so tiny today that they can't be measured although they might be measured in 100 years. Compared to the natural swings of hurricane activity and compared to the huge population increase and infrastructure build-up along the coast, any global warming effects are likely to be so tiny that they're lost in the noise.

You've got to come with us, ... The water is getting very contaminated, you're going to get sick if you stay here. It's not sanitary anymore. Even getting a tiny cut could kill you.

The children of southern Africa need help now - before their tiny emaciated bodies appear on television screens.

(The health care industry) is terribly fragmented. That means there are a lot of little tiny pieces. Our surveys indicate there are a number of doctors' offices and smaller hospitals that are probably not going to be ready if they don't put on a real push between now and the end of the year.

The hair and the makeup are the only real wild points of it. It is orange makeup ... like fire and flames. And the hair is all back. But then there are tiny little metal things which is what keeps the hair away and explodes like flames.

The end of coal in Appalachia doesn't mean that America is running out of coal (there's plenty left in Wyoming). But it should end the fantasy that coal can be an engine of job creation - the big open pit mines in Wyoming employ a tiny fraction of the number of people in an underground mine in Appalachia.

If I were really really ridiculously wealthy, I wouldn’t buy a mansion, just tiny apartments in every city I love.

If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet.

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.

You could put a million guys in their garages working on these cars, and it still wouldn't make a noticeable dent in the nation's fuel supply. That said, these cars are still displacing some petroleum, though a tiny amount.

This is mobile e-mail for the rest of us, who have normal or tiny screens.

My tiny scary friend is coming

No, tiny violent one.

I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.

Seizing on a piece of business, I become tiny, eager, efficient: roiled water I cannot see into.

And, of course, when I was a tiny girl, I lived in south Georgia, where everything grew, and you picked it - melons, watermelons.

The universe is specifically tweaked to enable life on earth-a planet with scores of improbable and interdependent life-supporting conditions that make it a tiny oasis in a vast and hostile universe.

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

These are only a tiny fraction of the Countdown family. But if only one viewer is unhappy with her appearances, Carol is upset.

The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life.

This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know more than a tiny part of the whole of society and that therefore all that can enter into his motives are the immediate effects which his actions will have in the sphere he knows.

It's the things that you notice when you're not actually with your instrument that, in fact, become so interesting, and that you - you want to explore, through this tiny tiny surface of a drum.

It's thought that about 96% of us have visual imagery, and there's a very tiny minority in the population, some of whom are normal, some of whom have brain lesions, who cannot produce visual imagery.

It's not that PowerPoint brought the Columbia down, but the method of presentation broke up the argument into tiny fragments, and it's intensely hierarchical-no sentences, just little phrases.

Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is?...Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy.

Then we bring the tiny hatchlings to the Zoo. We take them to a special nursery, which is almost like a neo-natal intensive care unit.

It's so much work to get tenure, it's hard to imagine that more than a tiny minority of people would somehow make it through that incredibly arduous process and then decide to flake out on their whole career,

That's practically business as usual. Given Michigan's recession and Detroit's past budget difficulties, it's not what I'd hoped for. But there does seem to be some restraint here, and that's a silver lining. Thirty-five million is a tiny increase in regards to the budget.

That's a fantastic step forward. The next step is to be able to repair any damage we happen to have found. Our shuttle didn't require any repair, just a tiny little dental flossing of plucking a couple of gap fillers out.

They have a very vocal tiny minority of American citizens who overwhelm the majority because they are so vocal and they're so vehement. So politicians are afraid of them,

It's a teeny, tiny brain chip that's inserted at will ... (that) will give you language (skills or other) knowledge,

It's a tiny little club where people can hang from the rafters. It's gonna be hot and sweaty and ferocious, but that's rock and roll.

It was always a bad concept and never made sense. None of the big carriers would give up seat capacity. They matched them on every route. Even with their own bankruptcy problems, all three major airlines had more financial resources than tiny Independence.

It's kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

To have it in the palm of your hand and just slid through like tiny grains of sand is definitely, definitely heartbreaking.

Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves - what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don't know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.

We moved here to get out of Marion, which was getting a little too congested for us. Now, we can see what is coming. It's almost unbelievable what has happened here. It baffles my mind. Even as far back as 10 years ago, it was just a tiny little town with a bunch of farmers.

We're very pleased that the court agreed 100 percent with our perspective. The decision sets aside a tiny area around Andrews Lake for non-motorized use.

We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life.

We have a 3- and a 4-year-old who will race each other in Tiny Tots. But they could beat quite a few adults.

Under a forehead roughly comparable to that of Javanese and Piltdown man are visible a pair of tiny pig eyes, lit up alternately by greed and concupiscence.

About 25 million meteors enter the atmosphere every day. Most are tiny streaks, but some are big enough to explode.

A breeding sow spends most of her life in a tiny cage. It's usually about seven feet long and two feet wide. She cannot turn around. She cannot scratch herself. She must urinate and defecate where she stands. Simply put, I believe she is tortured, day in and day out.

It's like somebody wrapped up sticks of dynamite and just blew these homes into little tiny pieces,

It's been a really interesting process. It's kind of crazy how many tiny things have to come together to even get a word on the printed page. It takes an awful lot more time and effort and people (than a Web edition).

There's a huge number of people stuck in a lousy commute or a tiny house, or they finally got the raise they're hoping for. It's not a bottomless pit, but it's a large, large group.

Comets are like libraries, storing the record of our formation in tiny particles.

I can sleep at night knowing that for the last two years I gave everything I had for the ski jumping movement in my country. I have dedicated myself more than I thought I could and ended up working 100-hour weeks desperately doing any and everything I could do to break through -- all with a tiny budget and no support staff. When I realized that my aspirations and expectations were higher than the reality of our situation, I knew I had to retire.

However, it's better than sitting there watching this tiny mosquito grow larger on your arm. I don't know that he gains much by pulling out now. But he definitely stops hemorrhaging of public opinion against this.

I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.

I do find the sight of small children eating very moving. Watch the way their tiny fingers clamp the cutlery. The exaggeratedly precise way they move cups or glasses to their lips.

Granted, as a competitor, the games mean a lot to you. But we clinched, and there was nothing on the line anymore, everybody was talking about who we're going to play and what day we're going to play and where, all that stuff. You lose a tiny little edge and you get beat.

The phenomenon of the woman who's asked what movie she wants to see, and she says, "I don't know. What do you want to see?" It's a tiny version of a big tendency. Women need to say, "This is what I want."

Being able to rebuild the car was huge. It was a lot of work -- piece by piece, doing so many little, tiny minor things -- but we should have a real good car at Phoenix and we won last year so we're really excited about coming back.

In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too.

The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.

Every word you utter to another human being has an effect, but you don't know it. If people begin to understand that change comes about as a result of a million tiny acts that seem totally insignificant, well then, they wouldn't hesitate to take those tiny acts.

Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.

I like staying in hotels. I like their tiny soap. I like to pretend it's regular-sized and my muscles are huge.

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.

Life is challenging for everyone. If someone can believe that he's a sovereign in his tiny domain, it's just an adaptation to life.