Words matter. These are the best Big Thing Quotes from famous people such as Jared Harris, Ory Okolloh, Rhea Ripley, Bhuvan Bam, Tyrus, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Dad was never a Mr. Mum-type of person who’d stay at home. It was a big thing when he was home – he was a circus.
When I was in law school at Harvard, the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) in the U.S. was a big thing. I remember the fight between the army recruiters and Harvard University due to ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell.’
I think training with guys is a big thing that everyone needs to do.
To achieve something I don’t think is a big thing but to maintain and sustain it, is an art. This is something few people possess while others don’t.
A big thing to me was to be able to be in a situation where I could speak my mind freely especially when it came to my character. Get the actual right feedback and not have too many chefs in the kitchen and allow me to be me.
Weight was a big thing for me to overcome.
When I started writing, the deal was that publishers gave you a grand or two as an advance to buy some sweets, with the promise that they would make a big putsch with your fourth book when you’d built up a bit of a following. But by the time my fourth book came out, previously unpublished authors were the new big thing.
It’s a big thing, our relationship with ITV.
The big success stories – Facebook, Zynga and Twitter – are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.
I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world’s energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
Love is a big thing – it’s part of who you become, how you grow up. I had a wonderful husband, and I’m very lucky I have a second wonderful husband. You know, some people don’t even score the first time.
I think the next big thing in music, and it’s kind of because I come from the tech industry, is actually, I think it’s the platform… Spotify is incredibly interesting. I think the platform is becoming the star.
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.
I’ve had projects before where everyone says ‘This is going to be the big thing,’ and it doesn’t really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it’s huge.
The big thing on the horizon for me is video. I feel like it’s the closest thing to a perfect mix between music and design, because it has the motion and it has the dynamics of music, while at the same time having the aesthetic components of design. It’s a nice mix.
The big thing for me is to make films that you feel, whether you feel happy, whether you feel sad, whether you feel sick; it’s to make the audience feel so that the next day they remember what they saw.
I knew I wanted a ‘Girls’-type show about my life, but what’s the big thing that happened to me? Oh, I got married when I was young.
There is some big thing about the world that produced all these people willing to kill themselves just to hurt us. On 9/11 we learned we’re part of that world, in the same completely crazy, drastic and arbitrary ways it hits other countries.
It’s no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.
Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
Although just being employed as an actor is a big thing, I’m not sure I’d be satisfied playing the same character for 30 years; it’s not why I want to do this for a living.
I’d been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.
People got to know me very gradually. It was little things. It’s still like that. ‘That Thing you Do!’ was a big thing. It’s always been very gradual. Like I say, people still ask me if I’m still acting. ‘I’ve seen all your movies. What are you doing now?’ Ha ha!
My big thing is I think women should birth their babies, as long as they’re healthy and their doctor says it’s OK, however they want, whether that means in the hospital with no drugs, at home with an epidural, elective C-section, whatever.
Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly – that’s been a big thing for him.
I think you have to improve every day a little bit so you don’t have one day where there’s a big thing coming.
Hollywood ‘friends’ are only after one thing. They’re looking out for the next big thing, and they don’t want to miss out on you just in case.
With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that’s made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.
My big thing is that I always get typecast.
AOL Instant Messenger was a big thing back in the day, where girls would get on it and make fun of me. There was a certain girl, and she wanted to make me feel bad.
I don’t think there’s a particular technology that will set the trajectory for us moving forward. We don’t want to be one of the companies that say AI is the next big thing, let’s go build an AI application for Robinhood. That might not work. It might be awkward.
Preparation is such a big thing and you should never take that for granted.
To truly repent of a big thing, you have to go into it with your heart open and force yourself to deal with it at that level and to apologize to God.
Most work is not coming up with The Next Big Thing. Rather, it’s improving the thing you already thought of six months – or six years – ago. It’s the work of work.
The big thing in Ghana is a strong sense that if you failed in your education that was it. There was no system… to give you support later on, there really wasn’t much of a second chance so there was a big emphasis in… this is your life chance and you have got to take it.
All women, and men of color – we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That’s a big thing.
If you start chasing around trying to get steals for your own benefit, then you really put your defense at a disadvantage. It’s not a big thing for me; if it happens, great.
I think we’ve come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.
I have a big thing about needing to know that I belong – in my group of friends, in my family, in my industry.
So many entrepreneurs approach me and say, ‘I want to start the next big thing,’ and I say, ‘Well, what are you solving?’ And oftentimes they say, ‘Oh, I’m not sure. I want to start something big.’ You can never start something big without solving something small, right?
I think the big thing is you really have one chance to do this… to play hockey for a living, you have one chance at your career, and you have to take full advantage of it.
I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing.
That’s the big thing – having the other guys’ respect in the locker room. You can’t come in with no respect and try to own the place.
Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life – in war or whatever – and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I’m OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.
No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to melancholy. Especially the American Irish. The availability of loss, some kind of pain, is an important part of who we are. I think my Irishness gave me that.
AI don’t make a big thing out of my race. If you try to preach, people give you a little sympathy and then they want to get out of the way. So you don’t preach; you tell the story.
In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.
The big thing for me is to motivate people, even globally.
A lot of people don’t realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It’s something to be aware of and to be cautious of.
I went to an open audition for ‘Between the Canals,’ and that was a big thing. I suddenly thought, ‘Ah, yeah!’ Then I started getting brought away to do roles. That’s when I got taken seriously.
If I knew what the next big thing was, I’d be doing it now.
I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who’s 38 who says, ‘I could’ve played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury…’ Yeah, probably not. It’s a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.
Beating a guy like Bader, that’s a big thing.
You can be big, and you can be successful, but you cannot abuse your power to stop others from challenging you from being the next big thing in five or ten years.
To see LeBron win a championship for the city of Cleveland, I’m from Cleveland. It’s a big thing.
I feel that in spite of having a big launch with ‘RNBDJ’ and the film doing well for me in terms of getting appreciation, I don’t think it made me the next big thing.
