“I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.” WorldLittlesBigsBeautifulTalkingHugeOriginalsTrainMy FavoriteCollectionsEnginesToysSteelTanksFavorites ThingsLegos Author:Callan McAuliffe
“The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling past the graveyard, because the average voter is only going to remember that one of the big Republican head honchos in Congress was indicted. They won't remember the name or position, but they'll remember it says Congress is corrupt and maybe the majority party is corrupt.” WellsSaidBigsHappensPastRememberNamesPartyTalkingPositionRepublicanMajorityCongressAverageCorruptionVotersCynicalGraveyardWhistlingIndictment Author:Larry Sabato
“I existed before Star Trek. I started in live television. I was there when the cameras were as big as a table, had internal fans that were whirring and tubes that, because of the heat, had to come right up to our face for a close-up. Now, we are talking about green screen and putting us in locations that we'll never visit. What has happened to us is a miracle, and the miracle is our inventiveness. The tragedy of our lives is also our inventiveness.” BigsFacesLife IsStarsTalkingOur LivesHappenedFansTelevisionMiracleTragedyCamerasTablesGreenScreensHeatInternalsLocationTubesInventivenessLive Television Author:William Shatner
“Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.” StoriesBigsFatherTalkingExcitedBedtimeBedtime Stories Author:Adam Sandler
“I'm the one who started spreading that particular factoid, about Bendis, Azz and me all being bald Brian's from Cleveland, just to get my name mentioned in the same sentence as two much-better writers, and it's worked like a goddamn charm. Next up, I'm going to grow a big, disgusting beard, just so people will start talking about Alan Moore and me in the same breath.” PeopleTwoBigsNextNamesGrowsTalkingParticularBreathsSentencesCharmDisgustingBeardBrianCleveland Author:Brian K. Vaughan
“I spoke to a girl today who had cancer and we were talking about how this is such a hard thing for her, but it taught her a big lesson on who her friends are and so much about life. She's 18. And I was like, that's how I feel.” FeelsHardBigsTodayGirlTalkingStupidTaughtLessonsCancerSpokesHard ThingsStupid CelebrityDumbest CelebrityDumb Celebrity Author:Kim Kardashian
“That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth.” KindStillsMatterReasonBigsWantedActorsLinesTalkingAnxietyTablesNervous Author:Gavin MacLeod
“I'm not the guy who will sit in a room with somebody who's using a bunch of big words and just act like I know what they're talking about, or sit on set with somebody and they'll be trying to explain something and not using layman's terms and I'll just say, "Hey, excuse me, what do you mean by that? Explain to me so I just understand."” KnowsTryingMeanBigsGuyTermRoomsTalkingExcuseBunchHeyExcuse MeLayman Author:Mark Wahlberg
“What Lincoln did is he gathered people around him the way that I believe President Obama is doing by calling Republicans, talking to them, trying to work with them. And when that happens, big things get solved.” PeopleWayTryingBelieveBigsHappensI BelievePresidentTalkingCallingRepublicanPresident ObamaBig Things Author:Ray LaHood
“It's hard coming in here talking a big game. It's hard, it's hard. It's a lamb coming to the wolves and throwing meat at them.” HardBigsGamesTalkingMeatNflThrowingLambs Author:Richard Sherman
“Big money tries to purchase its own agenda. Money does too much talking in Washington. Every senator, every representative, even the president awakens each morning with a number in his head that will drive the whole day. The number is the amount of money that must [be] raised that day for his reelection. If he fails, the next day's number will be even higher.” IfsTryingDoeWholeBigsGovernmentNextPoliticsPresidentNumbersTalkingMorningToo MuchFailingAmountHigherRaisedAgendasRepresentativesSenatorsNext DayReelection Author:Patricia Schroeder
“A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them.” BigsChallengesTalkingFameBubblesTease Author:Kathy Griffin
“The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in which we're ruled by big talking turds, it doesn't mean that we are. So you shouldn't feel depressed.” IfsWorldFeelsMeanStoriesBigsTalkingWitHopefulTurds Author:George Saunders
“I'm a very outgoing person so I like girls who are not afraid to be themselves. I'm not a shy person and when I hang out with a girl, I want to be able to talk to her. At the same time I like a girl I can have a conversation with - as opposed to me sitting there talking away because she won't open her mouth. I like conversations and I'm a really big sucker for personality.” WantPersonsI CanBigsAbleGirlTalkingPersonalityConversationMouthsSittingShyHanging OutNot AfraidSuckerOutgoingShy Person Author:Corbin Bleu
“Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.” BigsSoundCommonTalkingCommon SenseFakeFadesBackwardsCantCornyThesaurus Author:Wale
“The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.” ThinkingIdeasBigsTalkingBandSittingNo IdeaCandleVansLightingSitting AroundSynergyVan HalenGnarlyScumbags Author:Taylor Hawkins
“I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was a big shock. When your parents start to die off, that's going to be a revelation. So for me, this album - although it might sound quite cheery - is really talking about death.” ThinkingLittlesBigsMightMotherDiesParentSoundTalkingDiedStartingAlbumsRevelationsShockMortalityMother Died Author:Donald Fagen
“[Obamacare] was going to be the Republicans' big issue, and they're not talking about it because it's working.” BigsTalkingIssuesRepublicanObamacareNot Talking Author:Bill Maher
“The challenge for me was not just the prosthetic work and how to move like an older man would move, but more so how to have 50 years of experience in the workplace and talk to a young Robert F. Kennedy as if he was some political upstart that didn't know what the hell he was talking about. That was the big challenge [in the J. Edgar Hoover mоvie].” IfsKnowsMenYearsBigsMovingYoungPoliticalChallengesTalkingHellWorkplaceBig ChallengesHooverOlder ManProstheticsYears Of ExperienceUpstartJ Edgar HooverRobert F Kennedy Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“I know for myself my big, long friendships they don't have the same problems any more, but they also-when you get together you often times just have a drink and watch football together. You're not really talking about everything so much the same way. You just need to be around each other, and yet you can look at each other and so much is said just between those minutiae- it's totally subtle is really what it is. I felt like that, you know, a life that's been so totally dramatic then becomes beauty in the fact that it's just so small.” KnowsWayNeedsLooksLongSaidFactsProblemBigsTogetherFeltTalkingWatchesFootballDrinkDramaticSubtleGet TogetherMinutiaeLong Friendship Author:Josh Lucas
“I'm not big on trying to label it [my rap] or trying to prove people otherwise. I'm just making records that I like and that I wanna make. I'm just making records that relate to me and that relate to my life. If you listen to what I'm saying I'm not talking about anything that isn't my life. I take pride in having truthful lyrics.” PeopleIfsTryingBigsTalkingRecordsPrideProveRapLabelsRelateTruthfulNot Talking Author:Mike Stud
“I like to use big words so people will think I know what I'm talking about.” PeopleThinkingKnowsUseHumorBigsFunnyTalkingBaseball Author:Jerry Coleman
“I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become so accepted now, and somebody said, 'You know the Oprah show, I think has had a big impact.'" I said, I don't think so. We did several transgender [shows], but we didn't do as much for transgender as I did for, say, abused kids or battered women. And they said, "But no, you started the conversation. You started the conversation and the conversation has led us to here."” ThinkingKnowsSaidWholeShowsBigsKidsTalkingIssuesConversationImpactAcceptedThey SaidTransgenderBatteredBig ImpactBattered Women Author:Oprah Winfrey
“He was all emotion all the time, constantly talking about his feelings and his profound love for her. He was minutes from getting his first period. He wrote poems too. It's my personal belief that if men are writing poems, they're making up for something else like a big hair back, or one ball. Not that one ball is a bad thing. Especially since I don't know any females who are dying to their their hands on a set of balls. The way I see it, the less balls, the better.” IfsKnowsMenWayWritingFirstsFeelingsHumorHandsBigsFunnyBeliefEmotionTalkingMinutesDyingHairPeriodsFemaleBallsProfoundBad ThingsMaking UpLove For HerWriting PoemsPersonal BeliefsBig HairProfound Love Author:Chelsea Handler
“Leading up to a live event you need to do your homework and go to bed early. Sometimes it's very tempting to go out with everybody else, They're all going to a party or going out for a nice meal and you think 'oh well I'd like to go', but sometimes you think 'no, if I'm going to be sitting in front of a camera under a light in everybody's home tomorrow I don't want big bags under my eyes and not really know what I'm talking about'.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantNeedsWellsSometimesHomeBigsLightEyePartyTalkingNiceFrontsEventsTomorrowBedSittingCamerasMealsBagsGoing OutHomeworkTemptingOh Well Author:Jill Douglas
“You cannot keep on saying oh, you know, talking about disrespecting women as just being politically correct or it's not a big deal or brushing things off. You've got to be aware of it.” KnowsBigsDealsTalkingJust BeingBig DealPolitically CorrectBrushing Author:Malcolm Turnbull
“Certainly, from where I stand, I'm not a specialist in wildly different walks and voices. But I find as much variation and nuance as what satisfies me in what I do. So, I don't find this particularly different. He has his own peculiarities. You're probably talking about a cluster of Englishmen in suits but I've done quite a big cluster of guys not in suits as well, which I've occupied myself with. So, I don't find that this is the one that stands out.” WellsDifferentDoneBigsGuyVoiceWalksTalkingSuitsStanding OutVariationEnglishmenNuanceSpecialistsClusters Author:Colin Firth
“I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols.” ThinkingFeelingsBigsEmotionTalkingParticularSymbolsSuperhero Author:Grant Morrison
“There's a big mistake the left has made with talking to religious people, which is attempting to talk them out of their interpretations of the Bible, attempting to have theological debate with them. When I'm on right-wing whackjob radio, when people call up to inform me that I'm going to hell, I concede the point. "I'm going to hell. Yes. Can you leave me alone now?"” PeopleMadeBigsLeftReligiousMistakeTalkingHellWingsRadioDebateInterpretationLeaving MeAttemptingRight WingMe AloneTheologicalLeave Me AloneBig Mistake Author:Dan Savage
“Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.” IfsBigsNightSidesTalkingMiddleDrinkBirdNonsenseBottlesYour SideMiddle Of The NightBoozeTalking Nonsense Author:Edgar Allan Poe
“Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did period all over his sofa, then there's no reason not to tell that anecdote in the middle of a dinner party.” ReasonBigsPoliticalHousePartyTalkingMiddlePeriodsRoundsFeministDinnerNo ReasonJustificationDinner PartyAnecdotesSofas Author:Caitlin Moran
“I don't know that I have a single comedy philosophy. But talking about things that matter to you is a good place to start. Listening is a big part of it, too.” KnowsMatterPhilosophyBigsTalkingComedyListeningThings That MatterGood Place Author:Ted Alexandro
“I don't like my wrestling or entertainment in general to be too clean or predictable for me as a fan. When I say clean, I'm not talking about dirty jokes, middle fingers and stuff like that. I'm actually not even a big fan of that. A lot of people talk about the attitude era being so great but a lot of it was terrible crap, sex jokes and over-the-top terrible bad comedy. It was Jerry Springer-like. They made a joke about a woman's breasts. Hilarious, but where's the wrestling? I look back on a lot of stuff now, and I'm like where's the wrestling? It's just a lot of crappy jokes.” PeopleLooksMadeBigsSexStuffAttitudeTalkingComedyFansMiddleTerribleJokesCleanFingersEntertainmentErasDirtyBreastsWrestlingCrapPredictableNot TalkingJerryOver The TopMiddle FingerDirty Jokes Author:Dean Ambrose
“The Bond was so big and mighty in my career, and it is the gift that just keeps giving. I wouldn't be here today talking about "The November Man" if it hadn't been for James Bond. So, there was a desire, a want, and a need to make this film, "The November Man." I loved the title. It has a sensuality and a mystique to it.” IfsMenWantNeedsGivingBigsTodayFilmDesireTalkingCareersSensualityTitlesNovemberMystique Author:Pierce Brosnan
“I had a total revelation with the feminist moment, with Carolee Scheeman and Marina Abromovic and of course Joan Jonas; that was a big breakthrough with me. And through them, I was introduced to Chris Burden and Bruce Nauman and Vito Acconci. You can almost call it a gang, because the works are always talking together. That stuff had a huge impact on me, but other than that, my interest had always been old paintings.” MomentsBigsTogetherCoursesStuffInterestTalkingPaintingHugeImpactFeministBurdenRevelationsGangBreakthrough Author:Ragnar Kjartansson
“You're always looking to make it a bit fresh. I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested, and we're always talking to the directors about that. It's a big challenge to find people that can do it.” PeopleWantBigsBitsCan DoChallengesTalkingDirectorsBig Challenges Author:Adrian Hodges
“Since social media has become so big, body image has taken a downward spiral. Especially in surfing, because we're in bikinis all day, we're really critiqued. After a competition, social media will just be talking about who looked better in a bikini instead of who surfed better. It's not even about the results anymore, so much is body. And that's really frustrating at times.” BodyBigsSocialResultsTalkingTakenMediaCompetitionSocial MediaFrustratingBody ImageSurfingSpiralsBikinisDownward Spiral Author:Coco Ho
“I do still think there is a big disconnect between Republicans in Washington, D.C., and Republicans everywhere I go. When you start talking about, you know, foreign entanglements, they just don`t want any part of it.” ThinkingKnowsWantStillsBigsTalkingRepublicanEntanglement Author:Chris Matthews
“Well the only reason to go back, for me and I think for anyone involved would be if we could do something truly spectacular. We've been talking about it for a couple years and there's always been this idea, a big idea, in the back of my head that we've been talking about.” IfsThinkingYearsWellsIdeasReasonBigsWould BeTalkingCoupleInvolvedSpectacularBig Ideas Author:Joseph Kosinski
“The voice of Thich Nhat Hanh-friendly, patient, steadfast, confident, contemporary, and often witty-seems, to me, an intermediary big brother talking directly to me on every page saying, 'Look! It's right there in you,' the very wisdom that leads to compassion.” LooksBigsSeemsVoiceTalkingCompassionBrotherPagesPatientWittyContemporaryFriendlySteadfastThich Nhat Hanh Author:Sylvia Boorstein