Big Quotes

"As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me"

Robert Frost, Poet

"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself"

Ronald Reagan, President

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can"

John F. Kennedy, President

"What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space"

David Hockney, Artist

"Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you"

Doug Coupland, Author

"If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

"Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"Big Brother is watching you"

George Orwell, Author

"An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment"

Andrew Jackson, President

"There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"I fear those big words which make us so unhappy"

James Joyce, Novelist

"I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

"Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor"

Coco Chanel, Designer

"Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes"

Dave Barry, Author

"If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word"

Dave Barry, Author

"To win those big games you're going to have to complete some third-down passes, you're going to have to be able to get some explosive games in the passing game"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

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