The Big Quotes

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.

To be a great fast bowler, you need a big heart and a big bottom.

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something.

Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.

I want to run every race with a big heart.

I expect big things from myself but as long as I can keep the commitment and dedication and put the hard work in, I don't see why there's any reason not to handle it OK.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

Think Big! Expand your thinking first and your situation will soon follow.

Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?

The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.

A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat.

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.

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.

It's different, but it's very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.

My first big heartbreak proved to me that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal.

My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.

Daniel, my big brother, is eight years older. I'm lucky he didn't mind hanging out with his little sister and my younger brother.

Too many people, right now are playing it small. If you want to be SUCCESSFUL, Live BIG, Think BIG, & make every day of your life COUNT!

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

I'm a big old romantic.

Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things.

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.

I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.

Tiny tweaks can lead to big changes.

The world's big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.

If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.

Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.

You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

The rich people are doing well but regular people suffer. We'll all be better off when we realize that we're part of one big family.

New York is where you go to catch a big fish.

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone.

Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.

Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl.

By thinking big, we can transform our world.

It takes the same energy to think small as it does to think big. So dream big and think bigger.

Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.

We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.

If you want to be rich, think big, think differently.

Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.

So I was smacked up on the Prime Minister's jet – big deal.

There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 11.