Big Things Quotes - Page 8

I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.

Ashton Kutcher

Kids, Thinking, Waiting

"Interview: Ashton Kutcher and Joshua Michael Stern on Jobs". Interview With Zaki Hasan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2013.

4 Copy quote

Show source
The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.

Shia LaBeouf

Commitment, Actors, Levels

"Shia LaBeouf and Dane DeHaan Talk LAWLESS, Sampling Moonshine, and Bringing These Characters to Life". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 27, 2012.

9 Copy quote

Show source
When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

Matthew McConaughey

Firsts, Six, Making Money

4 Copy quote
Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can't get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Joyce Meyer

Goal, Focus, Important

7 Copy quote
I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close, I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic.

Stephenie Meyer

Summer, Twilight, People

5 Copy quote
Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.

Clare Balding

Swimming, Cycling, Games

5 Copy quote
It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

Littles, Little Things, Bigs

Bess Streeter Aldrich (1988). “A White Bird Flying”, p.139, U of Nebraska Press

11 Copy quote

Show source
And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.

Arundhati Roy

Air, Times Like These, Bigs

Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.142, Penguin Books India

8 Copy quote

Show source
And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.

Carl Sandburg

Running, Dream, Real

Carl Sandburg (2012). “Chicago Poems: Unabridged”, p.15, Courier Corporation

5 Copy quote

Show source
I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Thinking, Long, Joy

8 Copy quote
One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Daniel Handler

Past, Long, Intellectual

13 Copy quote
I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.

Alice Walker

Life, Thinking, Wonder Love

19 Copy quote
To me, the big thing in being a successful team is repetition of what you're doing, either by word of mouth, blackboard, or specifically by work on the field. You repeat, repeat, repeat as a unit.

Vince Lombardi

Basketball, Team, Successful

15 Copy quote
The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness; that is, she will never become a saint. Let her not delude herself - unless it is the Spirit of God who is speaking through her, for then she must not keep silent. But, in order to hear the voice of God, one has to have silence in one's soul and to keep silence; not a gloomy silence but an interior silence; that is to say, recollection in God.

Mary Faustina Kowalska

Religious, Voice, Order

23 Copy quote
If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'.

Elisabeth Elliot

Inspirational, Life, Believe

Elisabeth Elliot (2013). “Let Me Be a Woman”, p.9, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

22 Copy quote

Show source
When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, "I want you to emerge stronger from this." My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded.

Rudy Giuliani

New York, Patriotic, Cities

"9/11 was 'worst day' and 'the best day'" by Rudy Giuliani, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 7, 2011.

7 Copy quote

Show source
When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts.

John Wooden

Change, Next Day, One Day At A Time

58 Copy quote
Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

Lara Flynn Boyle

Growing Up, Chicago, Bigs

8 Copy quote
To accomplish big things, I am convinced you must first dream big dreams.

Conrad Hilton

Dream, Firsts, Bigs

25 Copy quote
We have to tell each other the little things, the bad things. Maybe they’ll hurt for a while, but at least they won’t become big things. If we don’t, we’re just going to keep hurting each other. And I don’t want to do that anymore.

Veronica Rossi

Hurt, Want, Littles

7 Copy quote
If you don't have time for the small things, you won't have time for the big things

Richard Branson

Inspirational, Business, Bigs

Twitter post from Jul 31, 2013

50 Copy quote

Show source
How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.

Price Pritchett

Trust, Everyday, Littles

7 Copy quote
All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Made, Bigs

Gandhi (Mahatma) (1962). “The essential Gandhi: an anthology”, Random House Inc

4 Copy quote

Show source
The big thing is that if you don't try something, you'll always wonder. What could that have been like? What if...?

Maria Shriver

What If, Trying, Wonder

4 Copy quote
When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

Lance Henriksen

Small Moments, Scripts, Fantasy

7 Copy quote