Big Quotes

The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

When people come to a concert, they wanna hear the hits, the big radio songs, and they wanna hear them how they're used to hearing them. I like playing them how they were recorded.

I played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys.

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.

I don't walk around big headed. I'm not a superstar.

My big places to shop are Wal-Mart and Target - seriously. That is where half of my stuff comes from now.

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time.

'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.

I was always a big fan of waiting a year of two to groom an NFL quarterback; let him learn and mature.

You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has become me, which is an amazing blessing.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.

Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.

When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

A wacky, trendy outfit on a guy over 40 indicates he's got big issues.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social engineering when it was appropriate, and exploited technical vulnerabilities when it was appropriate.

The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.'

I have big ideas. If you don't like them, don't vote for me.

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year.

If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.

Briefly speaking, our conclusion is that stochastic volatility does not make a huge difference as far as the pricing is concerned if you get the average volatility right. It makes a big difference as far as hedging is concerned.

It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus.

I was known as the little girl with the big voice.

Basically, I was a freak show. This kid with this big old voice. I was a travelling freak.