Bigger Quotes - Page 7

• I was always okay with the fact that I was taller and bigger than everybody else growing up. My mom, my dad, and my friends always told me I was beautiful.

  Jordin Sparks

  Beautiful, Mom, Growing Up

  Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Memorable, Feminist

  Interview with Digby Diehl, www.maryellenmark.com. March 1972.

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• You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

  Kristen Stewart

  Movie, People, Actors

  "Comic-Con: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and Stephenie Meyer Talk THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN Pt. 2". collider.com. July 2, 2012.

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• All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

  John Stossel

  Rights, Erosion, Government

  FaceBook post by John Stossel from Mar 29, 2013

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• As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

  Taylor Swift

  Careers, Lists, Make You Happy

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• Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills, but more commonly they make minor adjustments to the bigger bill.

  Matt Taibbi

  Minorities, Bills, Amendments

  Matt Taibbi (2007). “Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire”, p.20, Black Cat

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• Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Failure, People, Safety

  The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2012.

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• When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.

  Yoshio Taniguchi

  Planning, Management, Projects

  Yoshio Taniguchi (1996). “The Japan Architect”

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• There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of the bigger technical projects in this area, and it changed how people looked at it because Linux took both the practical and ideological approach.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Way, Linux

  "Reclusive Linux founder opens up". Interview with Kristie Lu Stout, edition.cnn.com. May 19, 2006.

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• Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

  Ted Turner

  Mean, Economy, Rating

  "Turner: Murdoch is a 'warmonger'", www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2003.

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• Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

  Shania Twain

  Daughter, Country, Grandpa

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Adjectives, Inches

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• Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

  Jesse Ventura

  Love Is, Government

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a lot of them, Liza is the bigger star. Liza is the more kind of viable legend, shall we say. Then there's the other camp, where Judy is the one.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Daughter, Mother, Stars

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• I'd like now and into the future to play a bigger role not only in Wisconsin and the Midwest, but nationally. I'd like to have an impact.

  Scott Walker

  Impact, Play, Roles

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• I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

  Florence Welch

  Song, Fall, Thinking

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• Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.

  Venus Williams

  Loss, Games, Losing

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• Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

  Amy Winehouse

  People, Skins, Energy

  "Winehouse: Drink, Drugs And Me", www.mirror.co.uk. February 13, 2007.

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• I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Love, Children, School

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• It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

  Tom Wolfe

  Giving, Imagination, Slice Of Life

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• Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Athletic, Evolve

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 13, 2006.

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• I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

  Steven Wright

  Grateful, Careers, Imagination

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• Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Making Money, Humans, Human Beings

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• International markets are much bigger than the U.S. In Sweden we have 9 million inhabitants, and if you're successful in Sweden, you're not successful - it's such a small market.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Successful, Sweden, International

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• You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact if you look at evolution on a bigger scale, cosmic evolution and you look at culture evolution you see it jumps, it goes through phase changes, and that's very exciting.

  Charles Jencks

  Horse, Talking, Culture

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