Getting lost in the ‘big picture’ often prevents us from cherishing the 'small moments' that make it all worthwhile...
I was very short when I was little, so I probably had - and there may be a residue of it now - that Napoleon complex. Wanting to be as big and as powerful as the big guys.
When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very intimate and extended conversation with the work materials themselves.
I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot.
I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.
I'm a big sports fan.
Petty thieves are hanged, you take off your hat to the big ones.
People seek out big shots as flies seek out the elephant's tail.
A fool is like the big drum that beats fast but does not realize its hollowness.
Small children give you headache; big children heartache.
In large rivers one finds big fish but one may also be drowned.
What is the use of a big wide world when your shoes are too small?
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, "wow, that's big", time...
Big John: You Eddie Felson. Fast Eddie: Who's he? Big John: What's your game? Whaddaya shoot? Fast Eddie: You name it, we shoot it. Big John: Look, friend, I'm not trying to hustle. I don't never hustle people that walk in a poolroom with leather sat...
[Chris hands his father a list] Frank D'Amico: What's this? Chris D'Amico: That's everything I need. And you may have to screw someone over. Like Louie... Big Joe: Louie? Whoa, Chris. Chris D'Amico: Or somebody, it doesn't have to be Louie. Big Joe: ...
Little Horse: [an obvious "two-spirit" Indian approaches Jack] Little Big Man! You have returned. Don't you remember me? That hurts me deep in my heart. Jack Crabb: [voiceover] It was Little Horse; the boy who wouldn't go on the raid against the Pawn...
[while holding a razor to Jackie Boy's face] Dwight: I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind. If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman. Jack Rafferty: You're making a bi...
Clarence Worley: Eliot, do I look like a beautiful blonde with big tits and an ass that tastes like French vanilla ice cream? Elliot: What? Clarence Worley: I said do I look like a beautiful blonde with big big tits and an ass that tastes like French...
The Dude: You thought that Bunny had been kidnapped and you were fuckin' glad, man. You could use it as an excuse to make some money disappear. All you needed was a sap to pin it on! You'd just met me! You human... paraquat! You figured 'Oh, here's a...
Everything is small at the beginning and then grows; except trouble, which is big at the beginning and still grows.
Whoever knew you when you were small will not respect you when you're big.
