Big Quotes

"That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions"

Bert Lahr, Actor

"Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one"

Dennis Bergkamp, Athlete

"Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan"

Tracy Austin, Athlete

"What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?"

John Dos Passos, Novelist

"I can't wait to get out. It's been much too long, I don't like being home. I'd rather play. This tour is going to be really big. We're gonna have the biggest show we can have. It's gonna be different not like the old KISS shows"

Eric Carr, Musician

"Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire"

Anil Kapoor, Actor

"The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations"

Angie Stone, Musician

"The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled"

Dennis Bergkamp, Athlete

"I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space"

Deana Carter, Musician

"I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while"

Terry Bradshaw, Athlete

"When I started my program... there was a big clock in the corner and I looked and it said nine o'clock exactly. And it was funny, because when I was standing on the podium, it said exactly 10 p.m., and this whole hour had changed my life"

Sarah Hughes, Athlete

"I started playing Madden back in 1993 because that was the first year I actually made it into the game and that was a big thrill. When you're in Madden, you've made it, baby"

Michael Strahan, Athlete

"I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation"

Johnnie Cochran, Lawyer

"If Daryl stopped touring it would be a big part of him missing"

John Oates, Musician

"Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society"

Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Statesman

"Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness"

Bill McCartney, Celebrity

"Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America"

Bruce Catton, Historian

"Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat"

Bob Uecker, Athlete

"I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians"

Joan Armatrading, Musician

"Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael"

Barry Sonnenfeld, Producer

"I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct"

Barry Sonnenfeld, Producer

"I ended up in college by accident. Everything in my life, I ended up in by accident. I was down south in this high school doing whatever. It could just not contain me. I quit school and took off and traveled around. Nobody knew where I was I just couldn't handle it anymore. It was a big scandal, I was gone. I left"

Pauley Perrette, Actress

"You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s"

Ann Wilson, Musician

"I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle"

James Weldon Johnson, Poet

"In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along"

Antonin Scalia, Judge

"I was never really a big presence in the home"

Dick Ebersol, Businessman

"Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big"

David Crosby, Musician

"My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home"

Amanda Holden, Actress

"I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man outside my window. It's not funny! It was real"

Barry Watson, Actor

"It's hell with that big beard and stuff. That's the one bit I don't like. Either you take out at lunch or you don't eat. So I opted not to eat, 'cause having to put it on twice is horrific"

Robbie Coltrane, Actor

"On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"A lot of kids do not know my club exists yet. I did not do any big advertising, and that's what I might do in the next two or three weeks, put something in the paper"

Thomas Dooley, Athlete

"We don't have any CGI with any of the car stuff. I think it's a real experience when you see this car going through really fast really wild and you see me driving a lot of the times and also a big chase in downtown Atlanta. It's just incredible"

Sean William Scott, Actor

"The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn"

Peter Hain, Politician

"I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years"

Persis Khambatta, Actress

"I've always been a big fan of the American soul sound"

Jose Carreras, Musician

"Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation"

John Spratt, Politician

"I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world"

Suzi Quatro, Musician

"Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards"

Jane Bryant Quinn, Journalist

"Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church"

Timothy Radcliffe, Clergyman

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