Bigs Quotes · Page 331

In the 1970s, I bought some cheap horses, then decided that if I was going to be in it, I was going…

— Kenny Troutt

...I just pulled a pretty big job and needed to hide out for awhile." "...Where's all the loot?" "That, as my cousin…

— Eoin Colfer

We had the kind of team that didn't back down from anybody. If they wanted to intimidate us, we could intimidate as…

— Willie Lanier

Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you…

— Mark Steyn

What you should want from life is an arena big enough to express your talents and gifts.

— Pleasant Rowland

If you're going to make a big wave, you have to be totally unified with everything that's happening... Maybe in the moment…

— Nick Carroll

I'm a big admirer of Walter Willett's work. I think he's done some really important research. He and I agree on most…

— Dean Ornish

I was a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He was the first president I got to vote for.

— Steve Daines

[Donald] Trump`s business conflicts are big enough and have come up throughout various aspects of this transition.

— Chuck Todd

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

— Jaron Lanier

There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with…

— Gustave Flaubert

The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to…

— Indra Nooyi

I've always been a big fan of the Yeti, simply because I have an affiliation to Everest - who was the New…

— Rhys Darby

As recently as the '70s, people were forced to see information that they didn't agree with in newspapers and the like. Now…

— Paul Saffo

There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted…

— Jessica Pare

My priorities are leaning more towards family, and I credit my southern upbringing to that. I was raised in the church as…

— Omari Hardwick

They really just taught me at an early age the values of hard work. Both my parents are two of the hardest…

— Blake Griffin

All the big pop acts that I've been into over the years - whether it's ABBA or Prince - managed to combine…

— Robyn

Every actor dreams of getting a big break, a big opportunity.

— Liam McIntyre

I love this place; I love mountains and big skies and forests. And the weather is still supremely beautiful even though the…

— Katherine Mansfield

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.

— Steve Perry

Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big,…

— Gore Verbinski

Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody…

— Jonny Greenwood

Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big…

— Langston Hughes

Come ye trials and challanges; come life's big waves, for I am ready?

— Mas Oyama

[The Middle East conflict ] just kind of ran its course for me. For a long time I could justify doing it…

— Peter van Agtmael

It really reminds me of the great movies of the 30's and 40's with huge sets and voluminous fireplaces you could walk…

— Ray Stevenson

It boils down to studenthood-in-perpetuity / curiosity-in-perpetuity / applied fanatic restlessness. That is, a belief that life is ONE BIG LEARNING EXPERIENCE.…

— Tom Peters

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number…

— Allison Pearson

Get the big point of your advertisement into your headline. Use your headline as a hook to reach out and catch the…

— John Caples

The main efforts of investigators have been in papering over contradictions in the big bang theory, to build up an idea which…

— Fred Hoyle

Being consistent is way less interesting than being yourself. And if you're not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project.

— Merlin Mann

I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I’m shutting down. I need to…

— Augusten Burroughs

I think for most new kids it’s important to sound different from the rest, to have your own sound, to be able…

— Nicky Romero

She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.

— Jennifer Donnelly

It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is…

— Robert M. Pirsig

There's a big conservative press unabashedly and for the Democrats and even people to the left of the Democratic party, there's almost…

— William J. Clinton

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

— Marc Jacobs

Sam has brown hair and very, very pretty green eyes. The kind of green that doesn't make a big deal about itself.

— Stephen Chbosky

If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will…

— William H. Calvin