Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
It all started when I went to this model search in Charlotte when I was 18. That's when I met all these agents and realized I could do it, and I won! I met a photographer at the competition who persuaded me to sign with a different agency than the one that was offered to me. So, I started with a small agency and eventually moved up to IMG.
You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.
I would serve a selection of cakes, scones, and small sandwiches for afternoon tea. High tea is usually served between 5 P.M. and 6 P.M., replacing an evening meal - it is more substantial.
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.
In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
Whether the medium is ready for consumers is better judged by those consumers. I sometimes read online - but not often. The stigma is attached to pay scales. Much online publication is no pay or small pay.
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead.
Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.
For my fifth birthday, I got a small tennis racket. That's how I started.
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.
Politically, the ultraorthodox represent a small portion of the Israeli society.
Break any problem into, or make any changes in, small increments.
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
But I love fish, cheese and meat, and I eat everything, but only in small quantities if it's rich.
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
In 2005, before I was president, the state of Bolivia had only $300 million from hydrocarbons. Last year, 2007, the Bolivian state - after the nationalization, after changing the law - Bolivia received $1,930 million. For a small country with nearly 10 million inhabitants, this allows us to increase the national economy.
Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need.
I specifically remember doing the musical 'Sweet Charity' at Stagedoor. I was playing Vittorio Vidal, which is a very funny part, and some other small roles. I couldn't really sing that well, but there were so many fun bits, and I just remember the tremendous adrenaline rush I felt from being onstage and hearing the audience enjoying it.
I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.
My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.
I collect robots. They're mainly Japanese, American, and especially Russian - small robots, big robots, and old toy robots made between 1910 and the Fifties.
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.
Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it.
