The Big Quotes

My last Olympics, I had a girlfriend — big mistake. Now I’m single, so London should be really good. I’m excited.

You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. don't forget that, all of you who don't have them.

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.

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

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

I was just an ordinary player with a big heart and a fighting spirit to recommend me.

Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details.

There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.

Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'

Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.

Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy.

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.

I wonder-maybe the key is balance. Maybe it's about living in the moment while still keeping your eye on the big picture-on all the pictures.

It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself.

My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.

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

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

Shake your business up and pour it. I haven't got all day.

Always keep the big picture in mind- you are greatly loved by Jesus and your job is to love Him and others in return. The rest is detail.

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

Some people like being a big fish in a small pond, others a ferocious shark in the ocean, I rather be the ocean. In the end, fish die.

The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character. Which makes the big decisions.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.

Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really what it feels like.

Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.

It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.

Your financial success is directly related to the size of the problem you solve for other people (solve BIG problems and you'll make BIG money).

You can't just dream big -you've got to think big, and then plan big.

We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. It's time to put the two back together.

Want to Think Big? Then get rid of the negative influences in your life. Harsh? Possibly. Healthy? Yes.

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.

If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

I'd always had a big thing for the '60s.

I've seen things that should get a lot of attention get no attention. I've seen things that were not supposed to be a big deal become the biggest thing in the world.

ObamaCare is not a 'trainwreck,' it is a suicide attack. He wants to hurt us, to bring us to our knees, to capitulate, so we agree under duress to accept big government.

I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal.

There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.

How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.

The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.

Big government squashes the human spirit

Now there are times when I have to make big decisions as I'm now running a company and that it's OK to go with being respected first.

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.

It's better for the country when each party looks like it stands for something serious, for some big things, but they're not narrow and they're not bought.

What I believe when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason - and it's not to fail and die.