Bigger

I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.

Bigger is always better.

We continue to look at accretive and synergistic acquisitions both in the domestic as well as international markets. Our emphasis, thus, will be on strategic acquisitions, and we will not be doing it just for the sake of making our name bigger.

I'm very tall, so I like a guy who's bigger than me - it makes me feel feminine and safe. I don't like to be hovering over a guy or feel like a linebacker.

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen, it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now I've conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it.

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.

I think films are bigger than structure.

Bigger spreads mean bigger gaps between what buyers pay and sellers receive. For example, a spread of 10 cents a share means that the buyer pays $100 more for 1,000 shares than the seller receives.

As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger part of the global mix.

Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.

I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.

I hit the ball early and move my wrist a lot, so I get bigger angles.

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

Over the years, my art box has gotten bigger and bigger.

I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose which one you're going to gravitate toward, but I just try to gravitate toward the best-written one that's been thrown my way after a lot of girls have passed on it.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see fainter things and that they see more detail. But it's been really hard to follow through on that second promise because of atmospheric distortion.

Nobody ever thinks that the work they're going to do could ever be bigger than the one they do before, especially if you're lucky enough like I had to have such a huge thing as 'Phantom' was.

I think almost all manic depressives exhibit some kind of criminal behaviour, even if it's something as minimal as shoplifting, but then they often go on to bigger and better things - in my case, it was fraud.

If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.

In India I've been to all the award functions, but that was in Hindi, now it's in English so it's a much bigger scale.

The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.

I'm not searching for hard news, I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it's a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven't flinched.

I am still where I started. I am still struggling. In fact, the struggle has only got bigger. I always try to go beyond my means, and this where the struggle comes in.

I want to lead the pack in the process of making Indian singers bigger than actors internationally.

Don't force it, get a bigger hammer.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of work in the 1982 recession, the 1991 recession, the 2001 recession, not only is this bigger, this is bigger than all of those combined.

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.

I hate it when everybody thinks I'm a... what's the word, a marauding mother! It's bigger than that.

My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

I wanna cover more ground, get a bigger fan base.

Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

The gap between rich and poor under President Obama is getting bigger because fewer well-paying jobs are available. Corporations are being taxed to the hilt and are loathe to add more workers. Thus, salaries fall because there are more than enough applicants to fill any job vacancy.

You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

With a sequel you're always trying to get bigger and better.

The group started getting bigger and bigger, so Al started replacing Brian on the road, and then finally there was a big flare-up with Dave Marks and he left the group.

I would never talk bad about anybody, even if they have something derogatory to say about me. I'm the bigger person.

I do wish my breasts were bigger. Not big... but less small.

'Vogue' is a bigger name than my name.

I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.

Some managements do not even think of buybacks as an option. The idea of shrinking their equity base repels them. Their inclination instead is to get bigger, and this often leads them to pay rich prices for acquisitions that never earn their keep.

Sometimes I need a boost, and I go for something that's a little bit more intense and a bigger beat.

Whether you're tall or shorter, or a little bigger, more curves, skinny - you just have to be proud of what you have, and everyone is beautiful.

I don't know of a more noble, a bigger deal as a filmmaker than to be a YouTube filmmaker.

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

I'm grateful to look the way I do. However, if I could change anything, I would like to be a bit bigger all over. Not much - just a bit.

Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.

The big will get bigger, the small will get wiped out.

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.

I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.

I have six brothers, so I definitely was aware of Marvel more than I was of princesses, but once you're cast in a Joss Whedon Marvel show, you go and become even more of a bigger fan. You do your homework.

I'm looking to see what the bigger picture is.

I have a little half-Asian butt, and the more I work out, the more I try to get it bigger, it's just going to get flatter and harder.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.

Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.

Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger.

To me, bigger is better.

We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.

Our football program is bigger than any one person.

We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?

The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

If you want to fight against a declining trend, you've got to have a much bigger bazooka.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

The word 'insurgency' had connotations that really sent a shiver down the spine of folks in Washington, in the United States - for good reason, because it means this is something much bigger than just a few terrorist cells.

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too.

It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland.

There is no bigger fight than Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder.

Originally they wanted it to be bigger, but I pleaded and pleaded and pleaded to have the smallest tonsure that they could get away with. A tonsure that could still be seen, but, I worried about my social life!

My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.

You have a laugh line, don't accentuate it. You get a bigger laugh.

We're feeding all these zoos. And that's getting bigger and bigger.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

When you are the first of anything, there is a bigger responsibility put on you.

But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.

Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos.

I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.

Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out.

I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.

I was 11 years old and have the same curveball I have now. So I was literally striking everybody out. I always threw hard, and I was bigger than all the kids, so I would throw hard and throw that curveball, and no one could hit me.

Facebook was founded on February 4th, 2004, and around February 5th, we were feeling pretty confident it would be bigger. We would see Facebook on every single laptop in class. We knew there was a bigger story here.

One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.

The bigger question is how does a rogue species called humans - whose population just blew through the seven billion mark on it's way to nine billion members - manage to survive the next century on a planet with finite resources, without destroying its delicate balance in the process.

I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.

Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, their ambitions, their personalities, their failings, their magnetism. In a sense, they're made for fiction.

The risk of getting Hep B from a blood transfusion is a tiny number, but it's a bigger number than the risk of side effects from the vaccine.

My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

When I came to America, I dreamed bigger dreams.

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries, and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.

Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me.

The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.

The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.

There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn't mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it's on an individual basis.

The important thing for any young singer or musician is to keep focused on becoming a better musician as opposed to becoming a bigger celebrity.

I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film.

With each dream accomplished, bigger ones are put in their place.

There is a bigger plan for us. There is some reason we haven't had a kid. Our kid hasn't come yet for some reason. We really believe that.

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

Hopefully, I can cross over into Hollywood, and hopefully that will bring me a bigger name in China.

Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.

Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy.

I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.

In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.

Baseball is a little bigger gamble than most, and the stakes are pretty high.

Bollywood is getting bigger and better.

I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and the show 'The Unit.' Got a little part in the movie 'Redbelt' by David Mamet and kept slowly grinding up and then started getting bigger parts in independents and getting noticed by Liz Meriwether.

Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.

The size of the budget doesn't make that much of a difference because the kind of issues I have on a low budget film I have on a big budget film as well, but they're just much bigger.

There's something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I'm working on.

I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.

China has a bigger middle class than the entire population of Europe.

Sleater-Kinney becomes bigger than the three of us. It pulls us along, in a way.

Near-death experiences give you balance. You become more worldly. Your ideas become bigger.

For film and TV, try to have a more conversational tone. For stage, you'll need better diction and bigger vocal production.

There wasn't a bigger issue in my campaign than Obamacare. Everyone I talk to, every business, a lot of family farmers, are concerned about how this will affect them.

By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later. That's hard. Our brains are hard wired to prefer the here and now.

I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.

Less than a year after loading the company up with debt, Romney and Bain gave themselves bonuses four times bigger than the $8 million they had put into the deal.

John Wayne was a consummate gentleman. Bigger than life.

Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.

If you take a galaxy and try to make it bigger, it becomes a cluster of galaxies, not a galaxy. If you try to make it smaller than that, it seems to blow itself apart.

The budgets are much higher now, it costs more to make a movie and the kids that go to see them are into instant gratification. They want things bigger and bigger. I don't make those kind of movies. I make movies about relationships.

My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel.

The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive.

When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a lot easier to lay down a bunch of singles than it is to get a home run.

The bigger the audience, the better with comedy.

The par putts sometimes are bigger than the birdie putts.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.

Being able to dedicate 100 per cent of my time to impacting more businesses without being operational, it just gives me a bigger platform.

You have to believe that things can be bigger than what you see in front of you in order to move forward.

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.

Moving in is almost a bigger step than getting married.

You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.

I make no apology for wanting to make a profit - the more I make, the bigger percentage will go to charity. So most of the work I do now is motivated by that.

I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that.

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.

The growing demand for content across our platform delivers bigger payouts to our contributor base and encourages them to upload fresh content to Shutterstock, further facilitating the network effect of our business.

Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

I always felt like something bigger was waiting for me out there.

Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.

Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.

At the Golden Globes, they put all the bigger stars in the front, the movie stars in the front, TV actors in the back. But even as a movie star, you can be outseated by a bigger star in any given year. It's kind of hilarious. You have to take it in stride.

You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.

I've gotten used to using individual lashes as well. A lot of girls will use strip eyelashes, but the glue comes out of each side and it gets messy. Individual lashes make your eyes look bigger and much more natural.

You see a lot of European influence coming in with bigger guys having a larger skill set, shoot the ball, handle the ball, pass the ball. I'm hoping that'll develop into something I can do.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

When I was married, or a few years ago, I never thought I was fat. I never thought I was huge. I was like, 'I still look good. I'm just made to have curves or be a little bigger.'

I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band.

The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

Bigger stories are made out of longer acquaintance with fact and character, but I also love the tiny stories in which almost everything has to be inferred and imagined.

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.

That was not part of the U.N. resolution, it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem.

I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

China tennis - we're getting bigger and bigger.

Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger.

I want to do more theater, which allows you to take bigger risks and experiment.

We still have a lot of international partner modules that need to get up there to make it truly the international structure that it will be, and that's highly important, we need to get to where the crew size is bigger.

It is harder to dress a bigger woman no matter what anybody wants to say.

Once, I was a bigger star than Greta Garbo.

I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff and take stuff gradually.

I am quite a physical chap - I think that's why my waist and physique are pretty much the same as when I was a kid, although my chest is a lot bigger.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was, and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.

I have to say goodbye to things in order to take on bigger things that I've always wanted to do.

As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

There's a bigger universe at hand.

If you have to rely on yourself, you try harder, and when you try harder, you feel bigger.

The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock.

I left Venezuela looking for something bigger. I wanted to be an international star.

The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics, in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.

A lot of people agree that tidying is connected to how we live, and even though, outside of Japan, houses might be bigger, people have more things than they need.

Nobody has ever gotten a bigger push than Bill Clinton gave to Obama.