Big Quotes: Embracing the Immensity of Life

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"

Robert Brault, Philosopher

"The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"Big words seldom accompany good deeds"

Charlotte Whitton, Politician

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

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll"

Steven Adler, Musician

"Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities"

Ralph Marston, Writer

"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new"

Og Mandino, Author

"The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country"

Lyn Nofziger

"I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love"

John Dyer, Artist

"Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other"

Ronald Reagan, President

"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

"I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"A big iron needle stitching the country together"

Jessamyn West, Author

"Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it"

Simon Pegg, Comedian

"I think suspense is a big thing"

Gina Philips, Actress

"The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish"

Federico Garcia Lorca, Poet

"We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life"

Jim Capaldi, Musician

"Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference"

Inge de Bruijn, Athlete

"From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better"

Joe Eszterhas, Writer

"I knew that if I concentrated on AdBrite, I could probably make a big company out of it"

Philip J. Kaplan, Businessman

"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it"

Abraham Lincoln, 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

"The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is"

Mae West, Actress

"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space"

Douglas Adams, Writer

"I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year"

Peter Drucker, Businessman

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?"

David Byrne, Musician

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