Big Quotes

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

"From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives"

Laura Miller, Politician

"But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me"

Michael W. Smith, Musician

"I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes"

Dusty Baker, Athlete

"My interest in his new toy, the Theremin, isn't very big. It simply does not fit into my way of playing music. I do not want to fiddle around with my hands in the air"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me"

Andrea Bocelli, Musician

"I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children"

Peter Brimelow, Journalist

"We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces"

Ted Turner, Businessman

"I'm not a big fan of mediocre"

Marcia Gay Harden, Actress

"Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior"

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Artist

"What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me - cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try"

Zachary Quinto, Actor

"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, Author

"Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins"

Carly Simon, Musician

"I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born"

Emily Carr, Artist

"Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'"

Bill Maher, Comedian

"It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen"

John Wooden, Coach

"Big doors swing on little hinges"

W. Clement Stone, Businessman

"I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition"

Shannon Miller, Athlete

"All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn't. They had big ears on them"

Gerald Scarfe, Artist

"I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet"

Al Jarreau, Musician

"Once the smoke of the market crash clears off, you know, the Internet will pick back up and go. Take a look at what's happening to some of the big companies like eBay and Yahoo, the publicly traded stocks. You know, they're all coming back up off the mat now"

Michael Nesmith, Musician

"Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days"

Vanessa Hudgens, Actress

"I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course"

Woody Harrelson, Actor

"I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon"

Horace Walpole, Author

"On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant"

Ritchie Blackmore, Musician

"Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks"

Edward Koch, Politician

"My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I used to live. I like the heat - the only thing I would change is have the ocean, or a big body of water close by"

Ryan Sypek, Actor

"I was a big Jersey meat-and-potatoes kind of guy before I got here"

Scott Wolf, Actor

"We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets"

Orville Redenbacher, Businessman

"I think doing more live stuff's made us feel a certain way about that particular point. I quite like small clubs. I don't really like playing in big clubs, and I think I'm really into the idea of a few people being together"

Sean Booth, Musician

"I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out"

Johnny Vegas, Comedian

"The group started getting bigger and bigger, so Al started replacing Brian on the road, and then finally there was a big flare-up with Dave Marks and he left the group"

Bruce Johnston, Musician

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