Less can be more
And small can be beautiful
Life isn't all just big and wonderful
What do I need, when you get right down to it?
All my cares come from greed
And it's time that I knew it
Things I can't do without
Are the small things that life is all about
Less can be more
And small can be beautiful
I don't want it all, just part of wonderful
What do I need, when you get right down to it?
A garden and seed, and the love to persue it.
Things I can't do without
Are the small things that life is all about
And small can be beautiful
Life isn't all just big and wonderful
What do I need, when you get right down to it?
All my cares come from greed
And it's time that I knew it
Things I can't do without
Are the small things that life is all about
Less can be more
And small can be beautiful
I don't want it all, just part of wonderful
What do I need, when you get right down to it?
A garden and seed, and the love to persue it.
Things I can't do without
Are the small things that life is all about
—"Less Can Be More," The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Rankin-Bass adaptation.
Zuko: "Hey Tanya… if you didn't have to be a soldier, what would you be?"
Tanya: "What do you mean?"
Zuko: "It's just that I can't imagine you being anything else. You've always been such a gifted firebender, and a natural strategist. When we were young, you seemed like you were born to be a warrior. But if you could have chosen the path your life would take for yourself, what would you have picked?"
Tanya: "Iroh's been rubbing off on you."
Zuko: "Just answer the question."
Tanya: "If you must know, I've always wanted to be a merchant."
Zuko: "A merchant?!"
Tanya: "That's right." (A smile grew across Tanya's face, but unlike the sharp, savage grin he usually attributed to her, this one looked far more gentle. Serene even.) "It would be a much more efficient use of human resources to run an organization that aims to make and sell useful products to the world, rather than throw people against enemy spears. And with all the colonies we've created, the opportunities for a new, golden era of businesses is limitless! If you think my military strategies are good, just wait and see my marketing strategies! I'd be the richest woman in the world within a decade!"
Tanya: "What do you mean?"
Zuko: "It's just that I can't imagine you being anything else. You've always been such a gifted firebender, and a natural strategist. When we were young, you seemed like you were born to be a warrior. But if you could have chosen the path your life would take for yourself, what would you have picked?"
Tanya: "Iroh's been rubbing off on you."
Zuko: "Just answer the question."
Tanya: "If you must know, I've always wanted to be a merchant."
Zuko: "A merchant?!"
Tanya: "That's right." (A smile grew across Tanya's face, but unlike the sharp, savage grin he usually attributed to her, this one looked far more gentle. Serene even.) "It would be a much more efficient use of human resources to run an organization that aims to make and sell useful products to the world, rather than throw people against enemy spears. And with all the colonies we've created, the opportunities for a new, golden era of businesses is limitless! If you think my military strategies are good, just wait and see my marketing strategies! I'd be the richest woman in the world within a decade!"
Homer: Oh, my dreams will go unfulfilled? Oh, no. I don't like the sound of that one bit. That means I have nothing to hope for. Marge, make it better please? Can't you make it better, huh?
Marge: Homer, when a man's biggest dreams include seconds on dessert, occasional snuggling and sleeping in till noon on weekends, no one man can destroy them.
Homer: Hey, you did it!
—The Simpsons, "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish"
I want... I need to stay here. I cannot live in the city, any city. I do not wish to serve the Grand Mayors. I do not desire gold and servants and all that go with such things. I want to do small magics for ordinary people, and be at peace. I have found... happiness... here. I will not relinquish it.
Barbossa: [to his men] You know the first thing I'm going to do once the curse is lifted!
[the men laugh lewdly]
Barbossa: [to Elizabeth] Eat a whole bushel of apples.
[the men laugh lewdly]
Barbossa: [to Elizabeth] Eat a whole bushel of apples.
If I were rich, I'd have the time that I lack to sit in the synagogue and pray
And maybe have a seat by the eastern wall
And I'd discuss the holy books with the learned men, seven hours every day
And that would be the sweetest thing of all
And maybe have a seat by the eastern wall
And I'd discuss the holy books with the learned men, seven hours every day
And that would be the sweetest thing of all
—Tevye, If I Were A Rich Man
He is a curious little boy who has a dream. And my god, how simple it is. How breathtakingly lovely. He wants to be a bellhop. He wants to work at a hotel and greet people and carry their luggage.
—Linus, about Chauncey; The House In The Cerulean Sea.
