All Quotes

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
‐‐ Gary Bauer

Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.
‐‐ David Christian

Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they're on an unemployment line and can't feed their families.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company.
‐‐ Jay Samit

Big ideas we tend to like are the ones that seem impossible or crazy.
‐‐ Bill Maris

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
‐‐ Barry Zito

Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.
‐‐ Nat Friedman

'Big Little Lies' is the story of a school trivia night that goes horrifically wrong, when one parent ends up dead, possibly murdered. I have never attended a school trivia night where a parent ended up dead. In fact, I've never been to a school trivia night at all.
‐‐ Liane Moriarty

Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.
‐‐ Michael King

Big meetings and big talk are not enough in a world that is hungry for change. Big action - world leaders keeping their promises, and developing countries committing resources while listening ardently to the voice of the small farmer - is needed to bring big results and prosperity to the world's poor.
‐‐ Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Big mistakes were made in Benghazi, and people should be held accountable. But the brave officers who staff American posts in crisis zones know how dangerous the work is.
‐‐ David Ignatius

Big money is made in the stock market by being on the right side of the major moves. The idea is to get in harmony with the market. It's suicidal to fight trends. They have a higher probability of continuing than not.
‐‐ Martin Zweig

Big money is ruining the political system.
‐‐ Arlen Specter

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.
‐‐ Stanley Tucci

'Big Night' is the best food movie ever made. It's such a celebration of food, and the Italian tradition of celebrating people. Plus, everything looked delicious!
‐‐ Julia Stiles

Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out.
‐‐ T. Boone Pickens

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
‐‐ Napoleon Hill

Big picture, it's amazing to create characters and see them brought to life in the art. And to love that art. But I especially enjoy writing a character with heightened powers that aren't especially useful to him.
‐‐ Cynthia Leitich Smith

Big players want to play in front of big audiences.
‐‐ Kevin Pietersen

Big plays are such a huge factor in the outcome of games. It is so difficult to go the distance on a defense.
‐‐ Mike McCarthy

Big productions, to me, are great - like, I love going to Vegas and seeing shows - but I think that sometimes it's distracting, especially when you are there to listen to the music.
‐‐ Pink

Big results require big ambitions.
‐‐ Heraclitus

Big Rube was on my first album and some of my mixtapes. His words are so powerful. I want to speak every word he says into existence. I wanna be a part of that! I wanna be a part of greatness. His wordplay is great to me.
‐‐ Nayvadius Cash

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
‐‐ Christopher Morley

Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs.
‐‐ Kelly Jones

Big sisters and brothers... I am telling you, it never changes.
‐‐ Janet Jackson

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
‐‐ Charles M. Schulz

Big sisters exaggerate.
‐‐ Alfie Allen

'Big Sky Mountain' is the story of Hutch Carmody and Kendra Shepherd, lovers with a history, and a lot of hurt pride. The book is about finding their way back to each other, growing as people, and inventing a life they can share.
‐‐ Linda Lael Miller

Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids.
‐‐ Rob Sheffield

Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.
‐‐ Steve Breen

Big studio comedies are such a headache.
‐‐ Penelope Spheeris

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that.
‐‐ Anthony Bourdain

Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.
‐‐ Carter Burwell

Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply power.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

Big Tech's nonchalance about copyright violation tramples over people like my wife and me, who strive to make a living in the great tradition of the creative realm.
‐‐ Peter Lerangis

Big things always interest me, but the big things don't work because they're too big. You have to find characters in which to couch all those things.
‐‐ Max Apple

Big-time directors and the studios that bankroll them prefer to dwell in the comfortable, familiar center, where mammon is God and the only divine word comes from focus groups.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

'Big Time Rush' was a great show, and I had some great experiences. It allowed me to become more of a comedic actress, which is also a great skill to have. But there wasn't a whole lot of tragedy in there. Not quite as dark as 'Red Band Society.' So I've been very lucky to have been able to grow in that sense, just through moving to FOX.
‐‐ Ciara Bravo

Big ups to him, big ups to Future. I actually like Future's music. I like his music, you feel me. I'm not a hater or a critic on him, you know, I do me. God bless him, God bless me.
‐‐ Desiigner

Big waves are a whole different ball game. You're riding a wave with an immense amount of speed and power, generally over 10 meters. On the face of the wave, obviously life and death thoughts start to happen.
‐‐ Kelly Slater

Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
‐‐ Faith Evans

Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).
‐‐ Julie Burchill

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
‐‐ Charlotte Whitton

Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.
‐‐ Bob Hope

Bigger airplanes, with two aisles instead of one, provide a better experience overall, and I think it's more comfortable.
‐‐ Chesley Sullenberger

Bigger girls go faster in the wind; lighter girls go better in the calm. Around 57kg is the ideal weight for women in my windsurfing class.
‐‐ Bryony Shaw

Bigger is always better.
‐‐ Adam Savage