Big Quotes

"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office"

"I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

"We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges"

Barack Obama, President

"It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas"

George W. Bush, President

"I like meeting all my fans and signing autographs, although it can all get a bit crazy. Yesterday, for example, a boy just came over and planted a big kiss on my face! I was like, 'Hello?'"

Britney Spears, Musician

"A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption"

John Ralston Saul, Author

"First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life"

Britney Spears, Musician

"I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me"

Britney Spears, Musician

"My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"Big results require big ambitions"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

"I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

"NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end"

Truman Capote, Novelist

"I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking"

John Dyer, Artist

"Every day of the year where the water is 76, day and night, and the waves roll high, I take my sled, without runners, and coast down the face of the big waves that roll in at Waikiki"

Duke Kahanamoku, Athlete

"I think The Big Picture was such a huge shift from my second record"

Michael W. Smith, Musician

"The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me"

John Dyer, Artist

"I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

"The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. However, the discovery that this expansion is accelerating is astounding. If the expansion will continue to speed up, the Universe will end in ice"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"I don't have a tuxedo that fits anymore because my chest and my biceps are too big"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"From my big beautiful warlock brain, welcome to 'Sheen's Korner' ... You're either in my corner, or you're with the trolls"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head"

Jimmy Carter, President

"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

"For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o'clock, and I'll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I'll go train"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"Well we'd just seen Gerry. I think he wanted somebody who had that authority and was handsome. The thing is, he's a big hunk isn't he? All I can say, if you look at his chat line, or the Phantom website, it's quite worrying. Because the girls really seem to love him"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much"

Donatella Versace, Designer

"I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

"Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

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