Big Quotes

"Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle"

Lisa Leslie, Athlete

"Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones"

Robert T. Bakker, Scientist

"You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

"Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way"

John McDonald, Leader

"A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big"

Brigitte Bardot, Actress

"Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head"

Elvis Presley, Musician

"I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned"

Orlando Bloom, Actor

"I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax"

Elvis Presley, Musician

"Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?"

Bill Maher, Comedian

"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative"

W. Clement Stone, Businessman

"If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today"

Lou Holtz, Coach

"My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big"

Satchel Paige, Athlete

"The Internet is the Viagra of big business"

Jack Welch, Businessman

"You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now"

Harry S. Truman, President

"We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise"

Freddie Mercury, Musician

"Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning"

Elvis Presley, Musician

"The big thing is that you know what you want"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored"

David Attenborough, Journalist

"When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'"

Jim Carrey, Comedian

"A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery"

Orlando Bloom, Actor

"They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves"

Calvin Coolidge, President

"It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight"

Helena Christensen, Model

"I used to wear my brothers' hand-me-downs, which were all too big on me"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"If we get to shoot the third one, which I'm really hoping we do, the third one's great. There's a big uprising and rebellion, and my character Gale's a big part of that. If we get to shoot that, I'll be very, very pleased"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"I grew up in a good family with good parents, and I was able to dream big and have the support to live it out"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"We love making movies. We got into the business to make movies. At the end of the day, whether you're doing a low budget film or a big budget film, you want it to do well and you want people to see it. That's the whole point. You want to put some kind of message in it"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

"You have to dream big, wish hard and chase after your goals. No one is going to do it for you"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice"

Zhang Yimou, Director

"In my district back in Texas, significant because we have a big solar panel production plant in Keller, Texas, we have a wind turbine plant in Gainesville, Texas, up in Cook Country"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds"

Merlin Olsen, Athlete

"Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market"

Ron Chernow, Author

"Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case"

William Shatner, Actor

"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

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