16 Shrunk Quotes for You to Enjoy

The number of people, the labor force, has shrunk by nine million human beings since Obama took office. Rush Limbaugh

People Took Nine Obama Since Force Labor Office Human Human Beings Beings Shrunk Million Number

Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere. Ta-Nehisi Coates

Progress Fault Black Black And White Poverty White Everywhere Record Rates Shaky Rests Between Lines Lows Gap Foundation Shrunk

There are fans of some of the old movies that'll mention those, and there's people that have little kids that'll look at me and say, 'Wow, I just watched 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' 35,000 times, and here you are!' Rick Moranis

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture. Carl Hiaasen

News Culture Journalist Country Background One Aspect All-Around Magnitude Investigation Terminated Around Got Coverage Celebrity Overwhelmed Celebrity Culture America Being Newspapers Us Aspect Teams Shrinking Shrunk

What about Hong Chau? In typical supporting-part fashion, she shows up halfway through 'Downsizing,' already shrunk, an imperious Vietnamese house cleaner with a limp and sharp angles. The movie's satirical cleverness upstages its rage; then Ms. Chau proves she's capable of managing both. Wesley Morris

Fashion Rage Typical About Angles Both Through Cleaner Sharp House She Cleverness Halfway Limp Proves Up Managing Movie Capable Then Vietnamese Shows Satirical Downsizing Shrunk

Our economic system has enabled companies and individuals to use their power and influence to capture and retain an ever-increasing share of the benefits of economic growth while the benefits for the poorest in society have shrunk. Winnie Byanyima

Benefits Power Society Our System Economic Economic Growth Retain Share Individuals Economic System Influence While Poorest Use Companies Capture Shrunk Growth

There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk. Tamara Tunie

Time Singing Lost Range Ability Had Been Lot Shrunk Actually

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction. Richard Le Gallienne

In London, I discovered a peculiar building by Holland Park where the globe was shrunk to fit a British perspective, but which had a library with Sri Lankan books I had never seen before. Romesh Gunesekera

Library Perspective Seen Building Before Books London Park Never Had Globe Discovered Fit Where Which Holland Shrunk British Peculiar

On a submicro scale, pure diamond is billions of billions of carbon atoms bonded to one another. If you shrunk yourself down and stood inside the diamond, you'd see nothing but carbon in a perfect pattern in every direction. Sam Kean

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder? Robert Dale Owen

Great You Responsibility Vast Counsel Wrong Contending Go Itself Wonder Afraid Should Doubted Measure Forward Lest Multitude Shrunk Suggested

It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business. Kevin Rollins

Success Music Business Music Business Market Market Share Some Pretty Computer Take Share Global Making Been iPod Where Might Far Really Apple Shrunk Here Recently

It's marvelous when you visit Tokyo: they have these clubs, and they'll have 'Motown Night' or 'The Beatles - Totally Authentic and Live!' You know it's shrunk, but at least there's some sort of youthful figure to it. Whereas, the blues scene in Europe is more like, 'Here we go again.' Robert Palmer

You Beatles Live Visit Some Totally More Scene Marvelous Like Know Sort Least Go Motown Authentic Blues Whereas Again Clubs Figure Tokyo Europe Youthful Shrunk Here Night

I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged. Maggie Rowe

Success Desperate Personal Want Shrunk Need

The competition I played against was fantastic, but golf is a different game now. The courses have shrunk because the equipment has gotten better. They're hitting the ball 10 to 15 percent farther because of the changes in the golf ball. Hollis Stacy