Big Quotes

"A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it"

"I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big"

"Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss"

Bono, Musician

"I'm very picky and I'm in a situation where it's a big crossover"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"I am a big fan of the TV series 'Taxi' which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well.""

Emo Philips, Comedian

"I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready"

Jason Statham, Actor

"I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me"

Lou Reed, Musician

"Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits"

Russ Carnahan, Politician

"Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I'm a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that's how it worked"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"To die will be an awfully big adventure"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game of hockey - he was a big reason for me coming back"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it"

Linda M. Godwin, Astronaut

"Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us"

Al Goldstein, Publisher

"The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

"I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows"

Stephen Chbosky, Novelist

"Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"They've discovered that, where all the other galaxies are moving in one direction, ours is going in another. Now, the Big Bang theory says that we're all moving outward"

Dwight Schultz, Actor

"I have big, big stage fright"

Andrea Bocelli, Musician

"And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big"

Imran Khan, Politician

"If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way"

Jayne Mansfield, Actress

"My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that"

Simon Pegg, Comedian

"Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem"

Imran Khan, Politician

"I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big"

Carly Simon, Musician

"Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously"

Uwe Boll, Director

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