Big Quotes

"To make pictures big is to make them more powerful"

"But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes"

Buck Owens, Musician

"I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money"

Daniel J. Evans, Politician

"Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest"

Orson Welles, Actor

"The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

"It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station"

Johnny Cash, Musician

"Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!"

Herman Cain, Businessman

"When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year"

Ridley Scott, Director

"Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

"I like death. I'm a big fan of it"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

"In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

"The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you"

Morrie Schwartz, Educator

"I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children"

Lucille Ball, Comedian

"At the end of the day it's not a weight contest, it's a visual contest. And it doesn't matter what you say you weigh, if you don't look that big then you don't look that big"

Dorian Yates, Athlete

"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved"

Tom Wilkinson, Actor

"I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen"

Frankie Avalon, Actor

"And I wouldn't take on such a big thing if I didn't think I could nail it"

Trish Stratus, Entertainer

"A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues"

Joe DiMaggio, Athlete

"Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name"

Rob Zombie, Musician

"Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings"

Wim Wenders, Director

"I just feel like there hasn't been enough time away from all this other stuff and into this new world or sort of big world that it hasn't worn off yet"

Mike Lowry, Politician

"The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing"

Norman Granz, Musician

"I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid"

Kate Hudson, Actress

"These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries"

John Perkins, Economist

"Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated"

John Hench, Artist

"Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them"

Richard O'Brien, Actor

"I don't think as big and as creative as Joss"

Julie Benz, Actress

"It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear"

Ryan Reynolds, Actor

"I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!"

Patricia Clarkson, Actress

"For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see"

Josef Albers, Artist

"The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them"

Rachel Maddow, Journalist

"It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"And as a Member of this body, I believe firmly that States do have rights, and I believe that local communities have rights, and they have made decisions to allow these businesses to prosper as they are a big part of their economy"

Jon Porter, Politician

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