Big Quotes

"Zero-zero is a big score"

"During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk"

"If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big"

"If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"Play like you're positive on the victory, even though they're leading big now"

Knute Rockne, Coach

"I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer"

Keenen Ivory Wayans, Comedian

"Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you"

Jay-Z, Musician

"Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2"

Keenen Ivory Wayans, Comedian

"Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear"

Shannon Miller, Athlete

"The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go"

Humphrey Bogart, Actor

"I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays"

Keenen Ivory Wayans, Comedian

"Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor"

Ring Lardner, Comedian

"America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"I've found that prayers work best when you have big players"

Knute Rockne, Coach

"But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I really dug playing to a lot of people, the band sounded great, and just being out there again, got me over my depression and so I decided to hop on board"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the last one.' But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. Doesn't necessarily equal big part"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

"Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs"

Allyson Schwartz, Politician

"That's why we have practice rounds. We make the adjustments as we go around, try and find out how to play the golf course the best we can. No big deal, it's nothing to me, it's the same for me as it is to everybody and we're all trying to understand it"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"The cast clubs were a big part of it, too. I found I wasn't getting that instant feedback I was used to with a forged blade. The sweet spot is a shade bigger, and when I didn't hit the ball dead center, I didn't know it, because it still felt great"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up"

Eddie Campbell, Artist

"You know, we - if, for example, Jerry Brown can withstand, you know, what will probably end up being $200 million of spending by his opponent and get elected governor of California, that will be a big victory in the nation's largest state"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"Little things can make such a big difference during recording"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"I don't know what the big issue is about a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things. It's a role, and I think a bigger issue is made out of it. It was a part I took and it's what the character did, so I did it"

Denise Richards, Actress

"The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away"

Fulton J. Sheen, Clergyman

"Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old"

Camryn Manheim, Actress

"I was not a big comic-book reader"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

"One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences"

Buck Owens, Musician

"A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

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