“America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.” WorldWarBigsAmericaSocialChallengesUnitedStruggleRightsLandRevolutionDepressionCrisisNuclearWar Of The WorldsCivil WarDreamerProsperous Author:Barack Obama
“What I got out of baseball is what I have today, and I've got to look at that. I still see some of my friends that never made it past Triple-A. I made that last big step. I was lucky. I'm in love with my land. I got it all from playing ball. It gives me prestige. Someone says, 'What you got?' I say, 'One hundred and twenty-one acres of nice land.'” GivingLooksMadeStillsBigsTodayLastsPastStepsNiceLandLuckyHundredMy FriendsBaseballBallsGive MeTwentiesMade ItTwenty OnePrestigeAcres Author:Mark Fidrych
“Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose that uses the tricks of poetry, such as dense imagery. This is a big topic of debate in poetry land. There's no perfect definition.” KindUseBigsLinesPerfectWrittenLandDefinitionsDebateTricksProsePoetry IsTopicsImageryLyricalDense Author:Campbell McGrath
“I do think that there is a big difference between family farms and agri-business, and one of the distressing things that I think has occurred is with consolidation of farm lands. You've seen large agri-businesses benefit from enormous profits from existing farm programs, and I think we should be focusing most of those programs on those family farmers.” ThinkingShouldBigsDifferencesLandBenefitsProgramProfitEnormousFarmsFarmersAgricultureDistressingConsolidationFamily Farms Author:Barack Obama
“Basically, there are two kinds of stereotypes out there in the world about America. There's America the Goliath - the big, powerful, bullying country that pushes its way around the world and gets its ways, pursues its own interests nakedly, irrespective of what others want. And the other stereotype is America, the land of opportunity, where everyone can go and do anything, be anything, make any dreams come true.” WorldWayWantKindTwoCountryDreamBigsAmericaOpportunityInterestPowerfulLandPursueAround The WorldBullyingStereotypeDreams Come TrueGoliathLand Of Opportunity Author:Shashi Tharoor
“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.” PeopleThinkingWantLongImportantStatesEnoughBigsGovernmentRunningChoicesHouseCitiesCompanySituationAcceptingLandMediaInformationJudgingNewsCapableSmartMachinesPaidWorkersCongressPopulationCriticalDumbCorporationsPocketsOwnersHallsSenateCritical ThinkingObedientCity Hall Author:George Carlin
“Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.” PeopleMadeDreamBigsOpportunityGivenNationsGrowsGoalChancePowerfulPovertyGrowing UpKnowingRichLandEqualLike MeTransformedEqual Opportunity Book:American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone Source: American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone
“If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the Big Bang or the out-of-nothing creation of the world by the word of a Southern Baptist god? And that question is even more fraught than any of the others. The stakes couldn't be any higher, because not it's not just a question of life and death, but also a question of life after death or eternal torture after death.” IfsWorldDoeStoriesBigsCausesLandEffectsCreationHigherEternalChainsTortureLife And DeathSouthernStakesBangsAfter DeathCause And EffectBaptistsCosmologyRough TimesLife After DeathSouthern BaptistCreation Of The World Author:Kyle Minor
“Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything. It's a big cultural isolation in terms of any kind of schooling where you could get exposed to things that might push the positive buttons. The geography of where people find themselves situated, both in metropolises and in the heartland, really starts to matter.” PeopleHeartKindMeanLongSometimesMatterBigsMightCultureTermCommunityLandIsolationExposedButtonsGeographySchoolingRural LifeLong Drive Author:Debra Granik
“Having settled down in the promised land of money and adventure - returning to a land of your parents last days can be a big dilemma to many. Isn't your greatest wealth your parents, and the best adventure - to see them happy before they go.” BigsLastsParentWealthLandAdventureDilemmaLast DayPromised LandGreatest Wealth Author:Siddharth Katragadda
“Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would supplement all that with whatever we could kill or catch. Whether we'd kill squirrels, deer, duck, or caught catfish or brim, that was what went on the table.” BigsLandGardenTablesCaughtFarmsCowsDucksPigsDaddyDeerSupplementsSquirrelsCatfish Author:Si Robertson
“Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls. Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands on a guy with both feet. . . . Your body is engulfed by chemicals of rage and despair, you pound, you shriek, you batter your head against the trees. You come away wounded, feeling that life is unknowable, can never be understood, only endured and sometimes cheated.” LittlesDoeSometimesFeelingsBodyBigsLife IsGuyGirlDealsBoysTreeFeetLandDespairUnderstoodHarderPopsRageYour BodyBreastsPoundsChemicalsWoundedAdolescenceBig DealCheated Book:The Book of Guys: Stories Source: The Book of Guys: Stories
“When you understand just how big the Universe is, you then realize that only idiots fight over an area of space called land.” BigsFightingUniverseRealizingSpaceLandAreasIdiot Author:Marc Marcel
“How about that oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. And you know, the oil slick is going everywhere. So the next time somebody lands on the Hudson, it won't be that big a deal.” KnowsBigsNextDealsLandOilMexicoNext TimeSlickGulf Of Mexico Author:David Letterman
“I know what it's like to have these big multinational corporations invade your land and promise jobs and promise it's gonna be safe, and then you see the consequences.” KnowsBigsJobsLandPromiseSafeConsequenceCorporationsMultinationalsMultinational Corporations Author:Mark Ruffalo
“If you can imagine the area and the land in Cambodia, I mean there are hardly any roads in big parts of the country. The roads they have, in the rainy season, become just mud. So, if you’re somebody that has just one leg, or blind with no arms and you have children and you’re trying to work, and earn some money, and take care of your home, it’s hard enough to be a parent and do all of that normally.” IfsTryingMeanChildrenCountryHardEnoughHomeBigsCareParentImagineLandArmsAreasSeasonsBlindLegsTake CareJust OneMudRainyCambodiaRainy Season Author:Angelina Jolie
“Dutch beaches were known to me as man-made territories, as part of various land reclamation projects. But I was also interested in the media reality of the Moon landing. I wanted to use that event as a measure of time, to see what had happened in those thirty years - which happens to be my lifetime as well. I was born in 1967 and I remember seeing the Moon landing on TV when I was two. All those things were in play. Then it became a big production. It took five months to gather up the goodwill and make it happen.” MenYearsWellsMadeTwoPlayUseBigsRealityHappensWantedRememberBornKnownFiveSeeingHappenedLandMediaEventsTvsMonthsMoonProjectsLifetimeProductionsVariousBeachThirtyTerritoryMake It HappenGoodwillThirty YearsLandingDutchMoon LandingReclamation Author:Aleksandra Mir
“[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.” StatesBigsLastsWaitingKnownLandGunHorseStartingIndianSettlementEver AfterOklahomaSpeculatorsItchy Author:Alistair Cooke
“Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I saw that movie nine times. It rules!” KnowsBigsSawsLandMythNineDryKevinDry Land Author:Jim Carrey
“I like to just keep the land within sight. Nowadays they can tell you if there's a storm three days out. So it's not much of a concern. But I've never been a big boat person. I don't spend a lot of time at sea.” IfsPersonsBigsThreeSeaLandConcernSightStormBoat Author:Casey Affleck
“I was a big fan of a writer named Jack Vance, a science fiction writer. He always wrote about these guys who were either going down a river in a strange world or would be in this one land where people acted really strange, and he'd have these interactions with them that were strange - he'd usually get run out of town or something. Then he'd end up in the next town over where the rules were totally different. And I love this stuff.” PeopleWorldDifferentEndsBigsWould BeRunningGuyNextStuffFictionFansLandStrangeRiversTownsScience FictionInteractionFiction WritersStrange World Author:Bela Fleck
“Ralph Kramden, as played by Jackie Gleason, was this big bumbling New York City bus driver who was kind of mean and crass and a little bit egotistical. But underneath it all, he was a big heart looking for a place to land I think.” ThinkingHeartKindMeanLittlesBigsBitsCitiesLandNew YorkLittle BitDriversBusNew York CityEgotisticalJackieBig HeartCrassBus DriverCity Bus Author:George Saunders
“There's sometimes when I feel really balanced, and there's other times when I feel like I'm trying to keep juggling too many balls in the air, and I feel like I'm on the edge of dropping all of them and having them all land on my head, you know? Scheduling is a big part of it, and the other is just remaining flexible and keeping a sense of humor about things.” KnowsFeelsTryingSometimesBigsAirLandBallsEdgesSense Of HumorBalancedFlexibleDroppingJugglingScheduling Author:Michael Franti
“Up here (on the North Shore of Minnesota) on the land we have two communication portals, and a Lemurian portal straight out from the house, and then a big stargate has just recently opened up in our meadow.” TwoBigsHouseLandCommunicationShoreMeadowsPortalMinnesota Author:Christine McCormick Day
“Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the armed services that are involved with nuclear weapons deployment, especially the naval submarine operations and also the air force's land-based ICBM operations. So they have a big lobby in Washington.” StatesBigsFormForceUnitedUnited StatesAirLandInvolvedWeaponsNuclearOperationsBranchesNuclear WeaponsLaboratoryAir ForceNavalDeploymentSubmarinesArmed Services Author:John Burroughs