All Quotes

The big percentage is us, the real people, and we have to say something. You have to speak up. You have to.
‐‐ Leslie Jones

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.
‐‐ Ryan Lochte

The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.'
‐‐ Craig Kilborn

The big post-election story if Obama wins the presidency will be in the hands of the ethically embattled Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich. He's not very popular, and has a chance to use his power to appoint an Obama replacement as a step in the direction of political rehabilitation.
‐‐ Chuck Todd

The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.
‐‐ Fulton J. Sheen

The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
‐‐ Tom Waits

The big problem in translating is that we had to translate the language. People may not know that we record the podcast in Japanese, translate it to English and then actors play us on the podcast. I'm not actually Scott Aukerman, I'm the actor who plays his voice on the podcast. Unfortunately, it's cost prohibitive on a television show.
‐‐ Scott Aukerman

The big problem is just this kind of gigantic piece, of kids reading less and liking it less and so getting worse at it. It's kind of this terrible spiral: Since they're not so good at it they do less of it, get worse at it, do less of it. And it's really what I discovered five, six years ago when I started the 'Guys Read' thing.
‐‐ Jon Scieszka

The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic

The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well.
‐‐ Gabe Newell

The big problem that UWink had was we were essentially building tablets because they hadn't been invented yet. That drove up the cost a lot.
‐‐ Nolan Bushnell

The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song. What do I write about? I never know.
‐‐ Nick Cave

The big producer is going to figure out how to deal with whatever the rules are, but the little guy who is running a few hundred units or maybe feeding 1,500 cattle a year, how will they ever comply with these requirements?
‐‐ Mike Johanns

The big publishers want someone they can send on the Jewish book circuit, somebody the old ladies can see marrying their granddaughters.
‐‐ Joshua Cohen

The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see.
‐‐ Venus Williams

The big question is always, 'Eyes or lips?' I tend to go with the eyes because I've got a lot more material to work with now - and it saves me from reapplying lipstick! I'm a pretty low-maintenance person and it's too excessive to exaggerate both the eyes and lips.
‐‐ Claire Danes

The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.
‐‐ Ray Dalio

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.
‐‐ Joseph Campbell

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.
‐‐ David Smith

The big reason that 'Doctor Who' is still with us is that every single viewer who ever turned in to watch this show, at any age, at any time in its history, took it into their heart - because 'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everyone made 'Doctor Who.'
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain 'hard.' The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.
‐‐ Ben Parr

The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong then it's a source of great pain and that lasts.
‐‐ Michael Morpurgo

The big risk to British lives in 2013 is in Afghanistan. Our troops, diplomats and aid workers have made a big contribution there. But while there is an end date for Western engagement, 2014, there isn't a proper end game.
‐‐ David Miliband

The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I?
‐‐ Lauren Bacall

The big secret in acting is listening to people.
‐‐ Eli Wallach

The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.
‐‐ Jesse Helms

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
‐‐ Michael Gove

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!
‐‐ LeRoy Neiman

'The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).
‐‐ Manny Farber

'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
‐‐ Manny Farber

The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.
‐‐ Alfred Molina

The big story of 2013, a very distressing year, is that Americans continue not to be able to find the full-time jobs they need, and that's something which the president has to recognize as the first priority of his administration.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.
‐‐ Charlton Heston

The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.
‐‐ Eric Lefkofsky

The big talent is persistence.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler

The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf

The big thing for me is to make films that you feel, whether you feel happy, whether you feel sad, whether you feel sick; it's to make the audience feel so that the next day they remember what they saw.
‐‐ Asif Kapadia

The big thing I noticed from High-A to Double-A is that when you have an advantage count as a hitter, you're not going to get as many fastballs. Adjusting to the 2-0 changeup, that 3-1 off-speed pitch - things like that. I think my swing can stay the same; I just was getting myself out.
‐‐ Andrew Benintendi

The big thing I've discovered, the big secret, is that it's all about how happy you are. It's the ultimate thing. People forget your flaws and imperfections if they see you're happy.
‐‐ Sienna Miller

The big thing in favor of doing an editorial on the front page is that it would be a powerful signal of how concerned we are about guns.
‐‐ Andrew Rosenthal

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
‐‐ Maggie Stiefvater

The big thing is hydrating the day before the race. I will have 20 ounces of water right when I get up in the morning the day before, and I'll drink throughout the day.
‐‐ Ryan Hall

The big thing is that you know what you want.
‐‐ Earl Nightingale

The big thing is to make a winning effort. I'm not obsessed with wins.
‐‐ Morgan Wootten

The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.
‐‐ Phil Collen

The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.
‐‐ Samantha Bond

The big thing will be having two pitches you can throw for strikes and developing a change-up, too.
‐‐ Drew Pomeranz

The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
‐‐ Balthazar Getty