logo

Quotes About Large

Chiropractic is health insurance. Premiums small. Dividends large!
~ B. J. Palmer
"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.
~ George Eliot
I come from a very big family. Nine parents.
~ Jim Gaffigan
Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.
~ Eric Ries
In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.
~ Noam Chomsky
It's rather clever of her to have made a specialty of devoting herself to dull people—the field is such a large one, and she has it practically to herself.
~ Edith Wharton
Brooding over this instance of misplaced fancy, Mr Datchery was conducted into a large and airy study on the right-hand side of the hall, and while Colonel Babington fiddled with a tantalus, sat contemplating the cat Lavender, which had changed its mind and followed them in, and was now distractedly perambulating the furniture.
~ Edmund Crispin
Three cheers for Mr. and Mrs. Bower and their really satisfactory American family of twelve children!
~ Edmund Morris
A dog-pound is not pleasant to look upon. It is little pleasanter to think upon. It is one of the needful evils of every large town – an evil that is needful to public health and to public safety, so say the city fathers.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
Citizens of a Great Country We are made of them, finally, as we try to sleep, to reach The place that night with all its stars has shown us, All its stars as all of us, and all our cities, and all our countries, All our histories and all our families, every one. The country of us is large. We ourselves are its border Wherever we are, whoever we are, safe as we try and want to be.
~ Alberto Alvaro Ríos
Shakespeare was compounded of too many and too large elements to have been a poet only.
~ Alfred Austin
We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.
~ Karen Mills
Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste.
~ Daniel Starch
To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.
~ Jim Ryun
I have a really large family, so we have three big Christmas celebrations. This involves intense diary planning, compromising between the families - and serious food shopping.
~ Zoe Ball
My father would talk to me about the moon, and to me it was mysterious and poetic, like a large, beautiful, honey-colored pearl.
~ Judith Love Cohen
It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.
~ Don Henley
As we've often said, to the world at large, Marvel looks like a giant octopus that's out to swallow the galaxy - which, by the way, we are. But we are, in fact, a rather small and intimate company.
~ Jeph Loeb
The switch to public sanitation may have cost more of the economy than the switch envisioned for the energy system, but the very large near-term payoffs of public sanitation made the economics much easier.
~ Richard B. Alley
I like not charity unreasonably large for the exempting of ourselves from the labour of duty: I would not choose such a charitable physician that would make his patients believe that they are in no danger, to save himself the labour of attending them for the cure.
~ Richard Baxter
Einstein had judged it too large and moved into a small secretarial annex nearby.
~ Richard Rhodes
I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.
~ Tim Walberg
Then a very large komodo breaks into view, spooked by our trespass, and scrambles up the vertical face of the bluff, like an alligator scaling a four-story building.
~ David Quammen
Not only are islands impoverished relative to the mainlands, but small islands are more severely impoverished than large ones. That bit of insight became famed as the species-area relationship.
~ David Quammen