big quotes

A boxer never sees the big one that hits him.

- George Foreman
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

: Bad language or abuse, I never, never use, Whatever the emergency; Though 'Bother it' I may Occasionally say, I never use a big, big D : What, never? : No, never! : What never? : Well, hardly ever! : Hardly ever swears a big, big D Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the well-bred Captain of the Pinafore!

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  CAPTALLCAPTALLCAPTALL1878  HMS Pinafore, act1.

Motels can be big, but never grand.

-William Least originally  WilliamTrogdon Heat-Moon
  Blue Highways:  A  Journey Into  America.

Dies Osterreich ist eine kleineWelt, In der die groÞe ihre Probe h a« lt. Austria is a little world in which the big one holds its tryouts.

-William Least originally  WilliamTrogdon Heat-Moon
On the social and political disintegration affecting the  Austro- Hungarian Empire in the late1890s. Quoted in Heinrich Benedikt (ed) Geschichte der Republik Oesterreich (1954).

The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.

- Mordecai Richler
Quoted in Time (Canadian edition), 31 May1971.

All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

- Logan Pearsall Smith
Afterthoughts,'Other People'.

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.

- Donald Trump
  In Time,16 Jan.