Weekend Words: Little
A week after he was declared a lame duck, President Obama signed an unprecedented climate pact with China. But is it too little too late?
A week after he was declared a lame duck, President Obama signed an unprecedented climate pact with China. But is it too little too late?
“The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.“
—Alben W. Barkley
“To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never — I repeat — never under any conditions face the facts.”
—Ruth Gordon
“Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Ev’ry day a little death
On the lips and in the eyes,
In the mummers, in the pauses,
In the gestures, in the sighs.
Ev’ry day a little dies.”
—Stephen Sondheim, A Little Night Music
“Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.”
—Emily Dickinson
“Out of Ireland we have come.
Great hatred, little room,
Maimed us at the start.
I carry from my mother’s womb
A fanatic heart.”
—William Butler Yeats, “Remorse for Intemperate Speech”
“If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”
—George Carlin
“Man wants little here below,
Nor wants that little long.”
—Oliver Goldsmith, “Edwin and Angelina, or the Hermit”
“I know very little about acting. I’m just an incredibly gifted faker.”
—Robert Downey, Jr.
“Nature uses as little as possible of anything.”
—Johannes Kepler
