Top 100 Big But Quotes
#1. In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore.
Don Drysdale
#2. Some business bets in which one wins big but infrequently, yet loses small but frequently, are worth making if others are suckers for them and if you have the personal and intellectual stamina.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#3. Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature.
Poe Ballantine
#4. He dreamed big but understood that dreams become reality only when their champions are strong enough and wily enough to bend history to their purposes.
Jon Meacham
#5. Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.
Steve Coogan
#6. Shaun Wright-Phillips has got a big heart. It's as big as him, which isn't very big, but it's bigger.
Kevin Keegan
#7. Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.
Rick Smolan
#8. There is pressure when you have a very big book like 'Shadow Divers' to follow up with something big. But you can't let that pressure determine what you do. You just look for the best stories, and when you find a great one, you tell it.
Robert Kurson
#9. God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.
D. A. Carson
#10. He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it ... he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.
Donald Barthelme
#11. He struggled to overcome his vertigo; he made it something else. No less awe, but less fear. He took what was like fear in him, and made it humility. I'm damn small, he thought, hanging like a mote of dust in still air, in a sea that's damn big. But that's alright. I can do that.
China Mieville
#13. The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.
T. Harv Eker
#14. The universe is big, but life is bigger!
Cixin Liu
#16. The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.
Saint Augustine
#17. It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.
Haruki Murakami
#18. He cupped her face and held her still, as he looked into her brown eyes; she was all flash and no bang. She talked big, but when it came down to it, she was a simple girl.
Elaine White
#21. I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
Carey Lowell
#22. School is at its best when it gives students the expectation that they will not only
dream big, but dream dreams that they can work on every day until they accomplish
them-not because they were chosen by a black-box process, but because
they worked hard enough to reach them.
Seth Godin
#23. Clearly, I'm a genius at picking boyfriends. In my defense, have you seen what there is to choose from? The sea is big, but the fish are scraggly, immature, and obsessed with video games.
Nicole Christie
#25. Learn to think BIG but start small. All the big projects eventually started with a single step.
Petronela Zainuddin
#26. Of course New York is the Mecca of style in America, but don't knock Phoenix - it's not as big, but there are lots of people with style there.
Amar'e Stoudemire
#27. Emmerich knows how to do "big", but the trick is in making it (movies) both big and fun.
Channing Tatum
#28. I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#29. They're old enough to know how the world really works, so why are they so stupid? It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you can clean up the shit.
Haruki Murakami
#30. Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#31. Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
Woodrow Wilson
#33. I was always the funny-looking girl. I couldn't compete with the Brazilian girls. My nose is off, my ears are too big. But I think it's my personality that these designers were drawn to.
Lou Doillon
#34. A lot of people say, 'Why do health-care reform when the deficits are so big?' But that is when we've got to do it.
Mike Ross
#35. You don't have to make it big, but you do have to make a big impact.
Jamie McCall
#36. Most times and in most circumstances, what hinders real progress is never anything big, but the small things we least regard that impede real thinking and action for progress!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#38. If we drop money, we are usually very sad if the money is big. But for example, if we drop 310 dollars, we can relax, because this is very small in the 3-adics.
Kato
#39. It's important to think big, but you've got to work small.
Marlo Thomas
#40. It's a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. People think about trying to build the next Facebook as trying to start where Facebook is today, as a major global presence.
Eric Ries
#41. Eric dreamed big but settled for reality.
Dave Cullen
#42. You are likely to vomit your dreams if you take too much at a time. Take it one after the other and don't over-eat the dreams you have! Dream big, but start small!
Israelmore Ayivor
#43. look at him like I used to look at Bobby. Like you want to rip his clothes off and take a ride on the Cooper train." That was absurd. He may be big, but Cooper was a man not a locomotive. Though he did have a nice caboose.
Terri Osburn
#44. Uh, oh. This room is big but not big enough to share with angry, smoking dragons.
Eunice Korczak
#45. From here it also looks a great deal bigger, because space is not really big, it is simply somewhere to be big in. Planets are big, but planets are meant to be big and there is nothing clever about being the right size.
Terry Pratchett
#46. We had always known that ours is a small country and that America is very big. But even as a seven-year-old, I was surprised that so many Americans has never noticed us on the map. Perhaps it's like driving a Yugo and realizing that the eighteen-wheeler can's see you.
Firoozeh Dumas
#47. I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.
Val Kilmer
#48. The past is haunting us. In Queens, in Manhattan, it is shadowing us, punching us in the stomach. I am small, and my father is big. But the Past - it is the biggest.
Gary Shteyngart
#49. I was always proud about being from Texas and, you know, maybe that was part of fearlessness. I love the fact that Texas is so big, but you don't feel small because of that.
Sissy Spacek
#50. Always dream big, but respect little things that surrounds you every day on your life path!
Marat M'saev Daan
#51. The Grand Old Party's abiding affection for a 'bigger and better' presidency isn't entirely logical. After all, the Obama presidency commenced with an effort to reenact the Hundred Days. Yet President Obama's first-term economic performance itself was not 'big' but mediocre - tiny, even.
Amity Shlaes
#52. It's nice that psychedelic music is kind of a buzzword. When I started with Vincent Black Shadow, stoner-rock was getting big, but it was more of a riff-oriented thing. Now people are starting to get into the 60's-Pink Floyd-acid-pop viewpoint.
Mike Romano
#53. My problems aren't big but it doesn't necessarily take a big problem to kill me.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#54. I prefer to invest in a company that's going after a small but rapidly growing market than a big but slow growing one.
Sam Altman
#55. When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.
Steve Kazee
#56. People think power makes them big, but it brings out their inner bratty child and makes them small." - Grady Adams - "Breathless by Dean Koontz pg 287 chapter 59
Dean Koontz
#57. I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
Ira Glass
#58. When you are fooled by something else, the damage will not be so big. But when you are fooled by yourself, it is fatal. No more medicine.
Shunryu Suzuki
#60. I think God calls and encourages us to dream big, but sometimes we put God in a box in a very small way, when God wants us to look outside the box.
Jodi Benson
#61. Some goin' east; and-a some goin' west,
Some stand aside to try their best.
Some livin' big, but the most is livin' small.
They just can't even find no food at all.
Peter Tosh
#62. Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.
Charles Krauthammer
#63. Werner, that you're from, nowhere, that you shouldn't dream big. But I believe in you. Think you'll do something great.
Anthony Doerr
#64. Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.
Shaquille O'Neal
#65. It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details.
Jorge Paulo Lemann
#66. Sandel hankers for the muscular debates of yesteryear, when government was not big but had bigger ambitions than today's bland Leviathan has.
George F. Will
#68. For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'
Carmen Busquets
#69. You have a right to dream big but you don't have to kill your dream
Paul Gitwaza
#70. I think the ears are a strange look for me. Quite big. But I loved the hair down to my shoulders. It felt right. I'm thinking of letting my hair go.
Billy Boyd
#71. You're trapped both ways. You do as you are told and you do things that you think will make you big, but all the time you're shrinking.
Helen Dunmore
#72. They'll say you're too little, Werner, that you're from nowhere, that you shouldn't dream big. But I believe in you. I think you'll do something great.
Anthony Doerr
#73. She talks big, but she's made of custard." "Fluffy and full of cream?" Kato wiggles blond eyebrows at me. Carver grins. "Think she's sweet, too?" My eyes spit fire. "Bite me. You'll find out.
Amanda Bouchet
#74. I'm still waiting to hit it big. But there was the moment when I didn't have to work at the restaurant anymore, which is the milestone for every actor. When your job is just to be an actor and not to have to do anything else.
Lizzy Caplan
#75. Fear makes the coyote bigger than he is." Right now the coyote's pretty damn big, but I gotta do what I gotta do. I stick my chest out and strut like a man down the street.
Katie French
#76. The real question is not are there other forms of life in the universe, but are there other intelligent forms of life out there right now. Because the universe is not only really big but it's also really long. It's been around for a long time; it's going to be around for a long time.
Ian Bremmer
#77. Castilian Spanish speaking Spain is big, but is bigger in addition with Catalonian speaking Spain, Galician speaking Spain and Basque speaking Spain. Democratic Spain, Constitutional Spain, can not be separated from diversity and the respect to the citizenship
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
#78. You are small. Your foe is big. But your God is bigger still.
Sarah Arthur
#79. To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
Barbra Streisand
#80. Many people feel small because they're small and the universe is big, but I feel big.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#81. When something is iconic, if you're very careful and delicate, you can add onto that iconography. It can expand. People have attached so much to it themselves, and connected to it, so the risks are big, but the potential is enormous, at the same time.
Hugh Dancy
#82. I know my ambitions are big, but you've got to have something after rock and roll.
Meredith Brooks
#83. In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the moon landing was right up there with the Mets in the World Series. So it made a, a big impression on me as a little kid.
Michael J. Massimino
#84. The Cubist paintings in the Centre Pompidou in Paris were strange but amazing. The big fat magical cat said they made her eyes hurt.
Jim Shanahan
#85. There is pressure that comes with everything being a big deal. I remember thinking, 'I need to survive the Shins. I don't know what I'm going to do to make a living otherwise, but I really don't want to do the Shins right now.'
James Mercer
#86. I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
Natalie Maines
#87. Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!
Fay Wray
#88. 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.
Akio Morita
#89. Each returning soldier is an in-the-flesh memoir of war. Their chapters might vary, but similar imagery fills the pages, and the theme of every book is the same
profound change. The big question became, could I live with that kind of change?
Ellen Hopkins
#90. But, no matter how big or small dictators are, they all accept 100 percent the principle that granting government authority to manipulate our lives and control our property is legitimate and morally acceptable.
Ron Paul
#91. I love you," he said against her lips. "I love you, too," she said but the words that always seemed so big felt small now. What was love when put up against war?
Kristin Hannah
#92. We know everyone we love is going to die, but we don't know it, can't possibly believe it, she thought, or long ago I would have gone and started digging until I had a hole big enough to lie down in.
Rae Meadows
#93. That witch talks a big game, but she couldn't be a bigger candy-ass if she dropped her pink little undies and sat on a pile of gumdrops.
Danielle Paige
#94. I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
Maeve Binchy
#95. Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
Olivia Thirlby
#96. If you have a big destiny, you're going to have to meet and face some big demons. But the good news is that your strength and power is big enough to conquer them all. You are strong enough to overcome all obstacles in your way and to fulfill your Destiny.
Jeanette Coron
#97. I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.
Josef Albers
#98. I'm not going to say I'm a big girl. I'm a very small person, but I'm a healthy weight. That might be a little weird for Hollywood.
Zooey Deschanel
#99. The big spells," Mg. Thane answered, his expression plain but his bright eyes smiling. Did he know how much those eyes gave away?
Charlie N. Holmberg
#100. When Facebook acquired Oculus, the game changed immediately. You saw big companies jumping in. You saw people like Google getting fully committed, and then Microsoft came along with HoloLens - there was a lot of stuff that people were doing before, but now the space really ignited.
Brendan Iribe
