“All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call.” LongMatterGodBigsTreeBranches Author:George Harrison
“I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with flat-ironed hair and bell-bottoms. They're actually very flattering for my figure. The wider the leg, the better for a person with a booty.” PersonsLongBigsMiddleFiguresHairBottomLegsFlatsBellsFlatteringWigsBooty Author:Sarah Paulson
“My mom used to make my costumes when I was little; she sews a lot. One year, I was a bride and I had a big wedding dress and a bouquet. Another year I was a medieval princess with a long teal dress and a veil. It was a little extravagant, but it was cute!” YearsLittlesLongBigsUsedMomDressesMy MomCutePrincessCostumesVeilsMedievalBridesExtravagantBouquetsAnother YearWedding Dress Author:Sasha Pieterse
“Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.” LongBigsDifferencesHugeComfortableFlightPillowHaulLong Haul Author:Bruno Tonioli
“I'm not the cool thing, and I'm not going to be the cool thing for a really long time, and it isn't like I'm not the cool thing and I sell 3,000,000 records every time. I'm not the cool thing, and I barely sell 150,000 records, if that, ever. So I'm obviously working really hard to sustain myself. I'm actually a target to be dropped, because that's just not enough records for a big company.” IfsLongHardEnoughBigsCompanyRecordsLong TimeSellsTargetCool ThingsReally LongBig CompaniesWorking Really Hard Author:Ryan Adams
“When I'm introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native... because it just wasn't there. And it's not that HTML5 is bad. I'm actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that's interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.” PeopleThinkingYearsLongMadeBigsLastsTermInterestingMistakeCompanyToo MuchBasesExcitedLong TermNativeBig ThingsMobileIntrospectiveAppsBettingBiggest MistakeAndroidsIos Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.” LongBigsLife IsTermSecretBenefitsEntertainmentLong TermEntertaining Author:Orrin Woodward
“I once waited on Sean Connery. A long time ago. This was at the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh. They closed down the restaurant for him, and when he walked in with his morning paper, all the waitresses started squealing. He was a big guy, bigger than in the movies.” LongBigsGuyMorningPaperLong TimeBiggerRestaurantsHotelLong Time AgoWaitressSeanEdinburghBig GuysSquealing Author:Tony D'Souza
“My success has been something I've worked a long time at and it's been a gradual process. I compare it to the idea of someone losing a lot of weight over a period of a few years. You don't really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there's a big difference.” IfsYearsLongHas BeensIdeasBigsProcessDifferencesLossPeriodsLong TimeLosingWeightCompareWeight Loss Author:Ray William Johnson
“Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.” LongPlayBigsSportsComedyComputerClubsChessObsessionObsessedBig ThingsLong Life Author:Chris Hardwick
“I knew I wanted to be an actor for a long time, but I was based out of Chicago and then I went to New York and I did 'The Upright Citizens Brigade' out there. I had a two-man show with a guy named Oliver Ralli who's now in the band Pass Kontrol, which is a big band out of New York.” MenLongTwoShowsBigsWantedGuyActorsNew YorkCitizensBandLong TimeChicago Author:Jake M. Johnson
“All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.” LongHas BeensBigsNamesLong TimeBrandingEightyReassuringLouis Vuitton Author:Peter York
“I think there's been this long cycle of the big companies making a lot of money by underestimating people's intelligence and people are used to it now. So, they're so used to having their intelligence underestimated that, for most of them, it really isn't worth the bother of paying a little more attention to something that might hit them on a deeper level. But you can't really read people's minds.” PeopleThinkingMindLittlesLongBigsMightUsedLevelsAttentionCompanyDeeperBotherCyclesLots Of MoneyUnderestimateUnderestimatedBig Companies Author:J. Robbins
“Ben Hogan was not really a big hitter. He was long enough. But Ben Hogan today? Ben Hogan today could not compete at Augusta because he did not have the massive length to compete against the long hitters. Power was always an issue at Augusta, but never so dominant that you couldn't play it.” LongEnoughPlayBigsTodayIssuesLengthMassiveDominantAugusta Author:Jack Nicklaus
“I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.” LongDoneBigsCareersRecordsAirIndiaRainbowLong Careers Author:Terry Riley
“We don't care how big or strong opponents are as long as they are human.” HumansLongBigsCareStrongDon't CareCaringOpponents Author:Robert Zuppke
“Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.” LongBigsAbilityJudgmentMaturityBig PictureHaulLong Haul Author:Ann Landers
“One of the most important things for a country, particularly when it's seeking to attract long-term capital in big risky projects that are going to have a payback over many years if not decades, is to be seen as being a predictable environment where tax changes will be few. But if they are going to come about they'll come about in a way that you know is predictable, understandable.” IfsKnowsWayYearsLongImportantCountryBigsTermEnvironmentTaxesProjectsImportant ThingsSeekingDecadesLong TermPredictablePayback Author:Malcolm Turnbull
“In many ways, large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally attached to large profits. I've certainly made some of my worst trades after long periods of winning. When you're on a big winning streak, there's a temptation to think that you're doing something special, which will allow you to continue to propel yourself upward. You start to think that you can afford to make shoddy decisions. You can imagine what happens next. As a general rule, losses make you strong and profits make you weak.” ThinkingWayLongMadeImportantBigsHappensNextWinningStrongTermLossDecisionImagineWorstSpecialEmotionalPeriodsWeakTradeProfitTemptationSomething SpecialStreaksInsidious Author:William Eckhardt
“I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.” LongReasonBigsPoliticalStuffNewsJokesShelvesShelf LifeOld News Author:Tim Heidecker
“When we enter the spiritual realm we are always focused on those big, life altering miracles. Here is a truth that isn’t sold to us. Change is a long, gradual process. Yes, you can make things happen immediately, but quite often, amazing things are happening that you can’t see.” LongBigsHappensSpiritualProcessHappeningsMiracleFocusedThings HappenRealmsAmazing ThingsMake Things HappenLife AlteringYes You Can Author:Ruben Papian
“When I turn on my central air conditioner, I feel like, "Wow, I really have come a long way." Or buying the super expensive organic raw food for my dogs, and I remember when I had to buy the cheapest big bag of kibble. So I think for me it's often in terms of comfort.” ThinkingWayFeelsLongBigsRememberTurnsTermAirDogComfortExpensiveBuyingBagsWowRemember WhenLong WayMy DogTurn-onRaw FoodAir Conditioner Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten
“Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.” YearsHumansLongHas BeensTwoSelfStatesBigsPastAsksIndividualGoalInterestConsciousnessChristianitySacrificeCenturyHigherThousandConflictEnlightenmentDirectOkayOrganizationAskingCommunismCooperationThousand YearsSelf InterestOffspringHuman ConsciousnessHigher Goals Author:David Gerrold
“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.” ThinkingKnowsWayFeelsShouldWritingYearsWellsMeanLongStillsBookDifferentDoneBigsAgeTodaySchoolJobsNextLiteratureNamesNationsCommunityMy OwnEnvironmentFiveGenerationsYears AgoHonestlyFive YearsLong WayNext GenerationCatchingRelevanceOur CommunityNigeriaLong Way To Go Book:Conversations with Chinua Achebe Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe
“I'm not really trying to be sexy. I try to explain to girls that you don't have to have long blond hair and big boobs.” TryingLongBigsGirlHairSexy Author:Miley Cyrus
“Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above.” IfsLongEnoughBigsMovingLeftStarsWaterMemoriesGriefBehindsHugeLong TimeShiningEndureCalmWaveMoving ForwardBoatKeep MovingBehind YouSwamps Author:Jimmy Buffett
“In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they've put starch phosphorus flour bottles of water and alcohol and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that.” MenLongBigsValuesWaterPiecesBoxesLondonAlcoholBottlesMuseumsExhibitsFlourPhosphorusGelatin Author:Stephane Mallarme
“At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again, I love the excitement of appearing before a big concert audience. Let's just say that the place isn't important, as long as everybody has a good time.” HeartLongImportantBigsAudienceGreaterSingersIntimacyExcitementGood TimesConcertsPerformersHaving A Good TimeAppearingNightclubsSaloons Author:Frank Sinatra