Billy Squier Quotes

Size doesn't mean anything - not all the time.

Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are. They're supposed to be gigantic explosions and they're just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.

Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said. It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.' Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

We learned a lot about the Moon, but what we really learned was about the Earth. The fact that just from the distance of the Moon you can put your thumb up and you can hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything that you've ever known, your loved ones, your business, the problems of the Earth itself-all behind your thumb. And how insignificant we really all are, but then how fortunate we are to have this body and to be able to enjoy loving here amongst the beauty of the Earth itself.

I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.

There's a lot of worse things going on in the world than me hitting a bad five wood.

People around me would never let me get too big-headed. At the end of the day, you're just another human being.

Things are only as important as you make them out to be.

Football is the most important of the less important things in the world.

My stance has always been that my issue compared to everything else going on in the world is really, really small. Once you realize that, you can get a lot more out of being a part of the solution.

I'm not invincible.

Look at the sky; remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity in order to see the smallness of yourself.

If it doesn't matter in five years, it doesn't matter.

I'm in a world so wide. It makes me feel small sometimes.

I remind myself that the universe is 15 billion years old, and I'm only 46 years old, so my perspective is sort of limited and fear-based and skewed.

It's always helpful to remember that in the grand scheme of things you are much more important than... um, wait, than... something, maybe.

I'm too small for the universe to revolve around me. It is a huge relief!

When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: 'God, I have no importance. Whatever I do or don't do, or what anybody does, is not more important than the grains of sand that I am lying on, or the coconut that I am using for my pillow.' So I really don't think in the long sense.

Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal

When you look at the Moon, you think, ‘I’m really small. What are my problems?’ It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us.