Big Quotes

"I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face"

Thomas Kretschmann, Actor

"My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I used to live. I like the heat - the only thing I would change is have the ocean, or a big body of water close by"

Ryan Sypek, Actor

"I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation"

Chastity Bono, Celebrity

"I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't"

Viggo Mortensen, Actor

"There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown"

Michael Ritchie, Director

"The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections"

Fred Barnes, Journalist

"All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations"

Nong Duc Manh, Politician

"What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid"

Johnny Rivers, Musician

"The funny thing is all these school shootings that we have, always happen in very religious communities. Maybe it's because the centre of their lives is a big fat nothing and it's just a fantasy and there's nothing there. I think maybe that might have something to do with it"

Matthew Bright, Director

"I like being small - I've known so many women with big boobs who feel overweight or end up with back problems"

Eva Longoria, Actress

"They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip"

Jewel Kilcher, Musician

"Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded"

Fritz Zwicky, Scientist

"Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it's all a perspective. It's all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything"

Debi Mazar, Actress

"I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy"

Montel Williams, Entertainer

"I am a big believer in early intervention"

Temple Grandin, Educator

"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!"

Bob Marley, Musician

"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"My big fight is not in the movie and I don't understand that decision but I know he's right about it, whatever it is. Quentin did not hire me because I'm a kung fu expert; he hired me because he liked to listen to me talk"

David Carradine, Actor

"I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries"

Stephen King, Author

"We have time, there's no big rush"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself"

Ronald Reagan, President

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me"

Robert Frost, Poet

"Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

"There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather"

Dan Rather, Journalist

"My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Big Brother is watching you"

George Orwell, Author

"If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable"

Will Rogers, Actor

"The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits"

William Hazlitt, Critic

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