Big Quotes

All you have to do is say “yes.” Don’t make some big project out of it. Don’t make some big deal out of it. Just say “yes.” You don’t even know what it means to say “yes,” but you say it anyway. You’ll never know what it means to say “yes,” but you do it anyway.

But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we’re getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.

The truth is few people “think” big and even fewer “play” big. Why? Because “big” often means big responsibilitie s, big hassles and big problems. They look at that “bigness” and shrink. They’re smaller than their problems.

Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career.

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

My cousin’s gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It’s not so easily tamed or subdued.

We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone.