#big

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#aware #big #fiction #how #leaving

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#big #commission #crawling #lone #think

It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place. ↗

— Kelly Macdonald

#film #hiding #impact #kind #living

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. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#decision #less #life-changing #like #more

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

#ambiguous #journalists #like #rather #report

That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. ↗

— John Madden

#biggest #bowl #difference #gap #loser

Philosophy is common sense with big words. ↗

— James Madison

#common #common sense #philosophy #sense #words

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.' ↗

— Bill Maher

#big #bush #case #destroy #i

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#character #comes #course #differences #each

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#conditioning #direct #feared #gained #i