Chuck D Quotes

Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.

And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.

I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

How big can we get before we get bad?

We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

Something needn't be large to be good.

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.

Everything's much too big here,' thought Moominmamma. 'Or perhaps I'm too small.

The further in you go, the bigger it gets.

The difference between living and half living is seeing well, looking for associations between things, seeking the connections, being aware of scale and proportion.

What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?

Good things come in small packages.

We spend our lives on a thin slice between the unimaginably small scales of the atoms that compose us and the infinitely large scales of galaxies.

Our shadows are taller than ourselves.

Those that are little, little things suit.

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.

We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued.

When the camera is looking back at our planet Earth, it's the tiniest of specks somewhere out there in the universe. So we do have a new sense of proportion. Of course the volcanoes and the magma under us just remind us of that.