Big Quotes

Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?'

Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs.

I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient.

Then I have a head mounted display which actually was designed for the military to do synchronized building entries and that's looking down at my hands, so projected on the big screen behind me, you can see my hands as I'm putting the tracks together.

Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

For most of the track world, the Olympic year is such a huge year, and it's a big year for us marathoners too.

My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.

My interest in his new toy, the Theremin, isn't very big. It simply does not fit into my way of playing music. I do not want to fiddle around with my hands in the air.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box that we never bothered to clean it out.

I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.

I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.

I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.

My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about. There's a lot of prejudice toward us but the more people talk about it, the less of a big deal it will be. And that will be better for everyone.

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I have devoted such a big part of my life to this band, making it what I want it to be.

I've been on big tours ever since I started, but you can't just go out there and headline, you have to do it right.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road.

Normally when one reporter talks to you at a tournament it's no big deal.