All Quotes

The big challenge is looking ripped and lean without being too big because on camera, it's easy to appear thick.
‐‐ Parker Young

The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also due to the evolution of the Internet, where people only read things that won't challenge their beliefs.
‐‐ Patrick Chappatte

The big challenge with Internet financial services has been that it's very difficult to get large numbers of customers to sign up for your service.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.
‐‐ Malcolm D. Lee

The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them.
‐‐ Tom Berenger

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.
‐‐ Alexandra Paul

The big companies are like, It's so good but we don't know how to market it.
‐‐ Marguerite Moreau

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.
‐‐ Ethel Waters

The big cop-out would be to accept popularity rather than opting to try to create potent work. It's so easy to do the popular thing, the expected thing, and that's where you start to cheat yourself - and your fans, in the end - because there's an inherent dishonesty in pandering and dishing up what everyone's expecting.
‐‐ The Edge

The big corporations have a team of lawyers and accountants to help them. It's the small businesses, the mom and pop shops, that get lost in the layers of red tape.
‐‐ Susana Martinez

The big curse of America, to me, is skinless, boneless chicken breasts. They're banal and relatively flavorless. The rest of the world's trying to get some fat to eat, and we're trying to ban it from our diet.
‐‐ Jim Harrison

The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.
‐‐ Vint Cerf

The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral.
‐‐ David Letterman

The big, defining feature of Palmares Tres government is its system of summer kings. The idea is that women 'Aunties' rule, led by a queen with a term limit of 10 years. Men aren't entirely shut out from this system - in fact, they have one of the most important roles in the government - but it's strictly delimited.
‐‐ Alaya Dawn Johnson

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
‐‐ Brendan Behan

The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.
‐‐ Gary Calamar

The big difference between TV and theater is that you get to do a new play every week, so it's quite challenging, but it keeps you fresh. There's never any fear of getting stale in your performance.
‐‐ Kevin Chamberlin

The big difference between us and other people who produce content is that we started doing this to make things that we wanted to make.
‐‐ Burnie Burns

The big difference for me is that, as I get older, I find it's a lot easier to stay in shape than it is to get back in shape.
‐‐ Derek Jeter

The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility.
‐‐ Bille August

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.
‐‐ Joyce Maynard

The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.
‐‐ Roberto Cavalli

The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.
‐‐ Tucker Max

The big fun in 'Battleship' is that there are no current battleships in the Navy today. The battleships are about 1,000 feet long and they have huge guns. They were what you saw in WWII. The last battleship that was used was the Missouri, which is what the Japanese surrendered to.
‐‐ Peter Berg

The big gamble in 'Focus' - it's a Will Smith movie that dares to be small.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.
‐‐ Kathleen Turner

The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s.
‐‐ Neil Tennant

'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families - a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison - all potentially perilous.
‐‐ Susanna Moore

The big guys choose who they want to fight and they think about history: 'how many times I defended my title.' They try to break a record: 'how long I was there.' But if you look at the pedigree, who they fought, ain't nobody gonna give them credit for it because they fought a lot of people with no experience.
‐‐ Evander Holyfield

The big guys, the big dogs, are going to own everything from the White House to the courthouse.
‐‐ Brian Schweitzer

The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.
‐‐ Terry Porter

The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.
‐‐ Taiye Selasi

The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping stories.
‐‐ Tony Kushner

The big issues, the things that scar Scotland - the least of them is whether we should have a border at Gretna Green or not.
‐‐ Johann Lamont

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

The big legislative updates that we need to compete in the 21st century and to raise living standards have been blocked by a reluctance to seek common ground.
‐‐ John Delaney

The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn't do the thinking and simply read a script in front of him woefully underestimates him. Ronald Reagan was an extremely intelligent person with a real V8 engine under his hood.
‐‐ Eugene Jarecki

The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle courses in the lab - windows, doors, hula-hoops taped to posts - and ask the robots to fly through. It looks like a Harry Potter Quidditch match.
‐‐ Vijay Kumar

The big message of gospel is that you don't have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.
‐‐ Brian Eno

The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn.
‐‐ Peter Hain

The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
‐‐ George William Curtis

The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?
‐‐ Robert Redford

The big nest was in Afghanistan, thats not quite cleared, then there are nests in the Philippines, there are nests in Indonesia, the Malaysians are clearing up their nests.
‐‐ Lee Kuan Yew

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.
‐‐ Frederik Pohl

The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue.
‐‐ Liz Phair

The big one I missed out on was 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' MGM wanted me for it, and Warner Bros. wouldn't give me permission to do it.
‐‐ Carroll Baker

The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.
‐‐ Edward Ruscha